Wednesday 20 November 2019

Free speech in England is a memory

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Former English policeman Harry Miller has taken the College of Policing and Humberside Police to court after he was contacted by the police in January, following a complaint over allegedly 'transphobic' tweets.

The court heard that the police told him that he had not committed a crime, but his post was being recorded as a "hate incident".

The counsel for the College of Policing said: 

"While the claimant now expressly disavows having any personal hostility or prejudice towards transgender people, his social media messages speak for themselves."
In one tweet, he said, Mr Miller posted: 
"I was assigned mammal at birth, but my orientation is fish. Don't mis-species me. F**kers."

3 comments:

  1. The court heard that the police told him he had not committed a crime, but his post was being recorded as a "hate incident".

    From the point of view of the police and the government the great thing about recording such things as "hate incidents" is that they don't have to go through the inconvenience of having to prove the charge in a court of law. They don't have to worry about nonsense like rules of evidence or juries or anything like that. When you're accused of hate incidents, or thoughtcrimes, you're simply assumed to be guilty.

    It really is past time we got rid of all that "rule of law" nonsense. We need to trust the Thought Police.

    Britain is a shining beacon for all the world. This is the bright future of totalitarianism. This is totalitarianism that works! And the British people are to be commended for the way they have learned to willingly obey the Thought Police.

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    1. I cannot believe how the English police have changed from the commonsensical, right wing people they were twenty years ago.

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    2. I cannot believe how the English police have changed from the commonsensical, right wing people they were twenty years ago.

      They know who pays their salaries.

      They've been corrupted the way everything else in the West (or at least in the Anglophone world) has been corrupted. You do what it takes to advance your career. If waving a Rainbow Flag will get you promoted then you wave a Rainbow Flag. If you concentrate on actual policing you'll be walking a beat for your whole career. If you play the political game you'll end up as a senior officer. Arrest enough thought criminals and you can hope to be a Chief Superintendent or maybe rise even higher than that.

      The police force will always tend to attract conformists. In a sane society they'll conform to sane social norms. In an insane society they'll conform to insane social norms. The military is the same. They obey orders and keep their pensions safe.

      You don't want policemen (or generals) who think for themselves. You want reliability from such people, not imagination.

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