Posted on 10/29/2020 6:25:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A proposed new law currently wending its way through the Scottish Parliament would make it a crime to utter so-called hate speech, even in one’s own home. The speech-quelling bill is being championed by Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Justice Humza Yousaf.
Entitled the Hate Crime and Public Order Bill, the new law, if passed, would criminalize so-called hate speech and create a new crime for “stirring up hate.” Critics of the bill believe that it would have a chilling effect on entertainment, especially comedy, and could lead to entertainers, writers, and other public figures being arrested for offering opinions or jokes that the government deems offensive.
Not to mention the bill would basically disallow off-color jokes or opinions that the government does not officially sanction even in a citizen’s home.
During a Tuesday session, Members of Scottish Parliament (MSP) questioned Yousaf about the new law. Glasgow MSP Adam Tomkins questioned just how the law could punish offenders for a public crime when such “offenses” were committed in the privacy of one’s own home.
“When we are considering the scope of the criminal law in this Parliament, we’ve got to be careful not to under criminalize and also guard against over-criminalization and make sure we are not inadvertently rendering criminal that we think ought to be free to do,” Tomkins said.
Liam Kerr, an MSP from Scotland’s Conservative Party was much more blunt.
“The hate crime bill was a mess when the SNP (Scottish National Party) first brought it to parliament and it still contains serious issues that need to be fixed,” Kerr said. “Tinkering around the margins will not fix the most controversial bill in Scottish Parliament history.”
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Those were the days. :)
That’s gay...
Sharia is imposed bit by bit.
Classic Scottish name: Humza Yousaf
So victims of Muslim rape gangs in Scotland could be charged with a crime for discussing their hatred of Muslims when the police didn’t arrest the Muslim rapists.
Scottish police kept silent about asylum seeker child rape gang
https://rmx.news/article/article/scottish-police-kept-silent-about-asylum-seeker-child-rape-gang
Only in the 21st century can a Muslim ever be considered a “Scotsman”.
This world has gone MAD!
Scotland has now seen the formation of Muslim rape gangs that have plagued the rest of the UK. And this Muslim official wants to be able to persecute victims for complaining about Muslim migrants in their homes ... when police couldn’t bother to arrest child rapists.
Scottish police kept silent about asylum seeker child rape gang
https://rmx.news/article/article/scottish-police-kept-silent-about-asylum-seeker-child-rape-gang
Is Haggis Halal?
Scotland has now seen the formation of Muslim rape gangs that have plagued the rest of the UK. And this Muslim official wants to be able to persecute victims for complaining about Muslim migrants in their homes ... when police couldn’t bother to arrest child rapists.
Scottish police kept silent about asylum seeker child rape gang
https://rmx.news/article/article/scottish-police-kept-silent-about-asylum-seeker-child-rape-gang
Just like the “classic” French names Mamadou & Djibril?
Or “classic” the classic Swedish name “Abshir”?
Europe is overrun by 3rd World Barbarians of the lower latitudes.
all the Scotsmen with a backbone emigrated to the US before 1900. Ditto the Irish. We have them all over here. My Scot/Irish Daddy told me so.
As I have always said, moose limbs are like less beins, they’re universal buzzkills ruining all the fun.
Radical Islam seems to infiltrate faster than Communism.
The U K and Scotland have no Bill of Rights as we have in the USA. They have some rights under the common law but no guarantees of free speech, gun ownership and the laws on search and seizure is weaker than ours.
Their form of government has no written constitution and is from various acts such as Magna Carta, rights of parliament and the sovereign’s power is more of a figurehead than a ruler now.
Arlen Specter would have been so proud. He could even enforce this in the US.
Good luck teaching your kids almost any values now.
I know where it is. And I'm sure it's headed to schools
near us next. (if not already)
Yes, hello... is this the police department. I have two
children who told me that their parents said...
More like the peasants got thrown out of Scotland during the Highland clearances. The lairds traded crofters (farmers) for sheep. This was not voluntary on the part of those ejected. Those left behind to tend to the sheep and woolen industry were not viewed as troublemakers and were content with a meager share of the pie. They became Scotland's modern socialists.
l8r
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