The Scottish Government confirmed today that the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act will take effect on April 1, bringing with it some of the most draconian curbs on freedom of speech and expression in any free democracy on earth. It has taken 40 years longer than Orwell predicted… but we have finally arrived in the totalitarian nightmare that he feared.
If somebody breaks into your garden shed and steals your bike, for example, or if your car is vandalized, then no action will be taken unless there is a witness or other evidence such as CCTV footage. However, if you were to say that you wouldn’t want an adult transgender female with male genitalia to share a changing room at the swimming pool with your daughter, then you may risk prosecution.
The Hate Crime Act was pushed through the Scottish Parliament by the current First Minister Humza Yousaf during his stint as Justice Secretary, although much like almost everything else he has ever been involved with (barring his deeply held convictions over Israel and Gaza) it wasn’t actually his idea.
Indeed, it was the brainchild of his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon, who hoped to leave as a “legacy” the Gender Recognition Reform Act that would allow people in Scotland to legally change their gender after just three months and without any medical grounds for doing so.
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The basis of these laws is totalitarian mind-control and nothing more or less. Laws like this ‘work’ by frightening people into silence and self-censorship; their absurdity is a feature not a bug as irrational controls produce stronger internal submission than rational ones. The underlying psychological mechanism of this species of legalistic mind-control is to seize control of a community’s psycholinguistic constellation of words and thought. Once major words and concepts have been commandeered, only the most thoughtful and intelligent will understand what is happening, and only if they pay attention. The other 50-90% of the population can be expected to blithely ride this ever-changing lexical conveyor belt straight to totalitarian hell. ABN
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