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Non-Crime Hate Incidents
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| I bet you have never heard of a non-crime hate incident. | |
| So far as I know, this is an exclusively British perversion. | |
| Someone can denounce you for just thinking you said something rude about our usual pets. | |
| Something entirely legal, by the way. | |
| And the police will come around and give you a stern warning. | |
| You can be written up and filed away as the perp of a non-crime hate incident. | |
| And you have no recourse, no appeal. | |
| This is supposed to keep real hate speech under control, but all it does is punish Brits who step out of line. | |
| Even children can be written up for non-crime hate. | |
| His Majesty's Government has an 11,000-word webpage explaining non-crime hate incidents, updated just last June, that explains how this all works. | |
| This sentence sets the tone. | |
| Freedom of expression is a qualified right. | |
| Which means that it can be restricted for certain purposes to the extent necessary in a democratic society. | |
| You can get yourself written up if you do anything that is perceived by a person other than the subject, that's you, to be motivated wholly or partly by hostility or prejudice towards persons with a particular characteristic. | |
| Hostility can be nothing more than dislike or unfriendliness. | |
| And the characteristics are the standard stuff: | |
| race, religion, sex orientation, disability, | |
| An officer can get creative. | |
| He can write up any kind of dislike or unfriendliness if he deems it necessary to record an incident involving a different characteristic that is not covered by hate crime legislation. | |
| And officers have. | |
| The alleged victim Or anyone else can rat you out. | |
| It can be something you said or did or just a tweet. | |
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Two Years for Tweeting?
00:06:20
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| If and only if the investigating officer determines there was no dislike or unfriendliness, then he needn't write up the incident. | |
| If he thinks you are a nasty character who might do it again, at his discretion, he can put you into a database. | |
| If you apply for certain jobs, such as teaching, child care, medicine, social work, A potential employer could find you out and decide not to hire you for something that's not a crime. | |
| There is no provision in the law to punish or even reprimand people who call in fake or ridiculous incidents. | |
| And many are ridiculous. | |
| Dirty pants on washing line recorded as non-crime hate incident by police. | |
| Someone in North Wales complained that her neighbor hung a very large, soiled pair of underpants on their washing line and left it there for two months. | |
| She said it was because she has an Italian name. | |
| The same article mentions a complaint against a man who refused to shake hands with someone he thought was a transsexual. | |
| A Russian-speaking man claimed that a barber gave him an aggressive haircut after they talked about the war in Ukraine. | |
| A nine-year-old girl was written up for calling a classmate a retard, and two secondary school girls got the treatment for saying that another pupil smelled like fish. | |
| As I said, police can be creative. | |
| This article says that a vicar got a visit from the police because a homosexual was alarmed and distressed when the vicar said homosexuality is a sin. | |
| People get a knock on the door for misgendering someone. | |
| The manager of a pub got a write-up because he kicked out customers who were having sex in the restroom. | |
| The complaint claimed it was only because one of the fraudikers was transsexual. | |
| I guess nobody cares if normal people copulate in pubs. | |
| The Home Office is supposed to have issued common-sense rules to cut back on the foolishness so that write-ups are reserved for incidents clearly motivated by intentional hostility. | |
| Where there is a real risk of escalation causing significant harm or a criminal offense. | |
| All of this is utterly subjective. | |
| A lot of people think the whole business should be scrapped. | |
| The Times of London, not exactly a hot-headed journal, is running a poll that asks should police stop investigating non-crime hate incidents. | |
| When I looked, 90% of people said yes, and only 8% said no. | |
| The current labor government, of course, is siding with the 8%. | |
| The Home Office says logging this stuff helps the police to build an intelligence picture around community tensions in order to map trends and prevent escalation. | |
| You never know when misgendering could escalate into murder. | |
| Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says tracking these incidents can be a crucial tool to enable police and other authorities to track and warn of rising abuse against Jewish and | |
| Well, I guess that settles it. | |
| You know what? | |
| I bet every protected category says exactly the same thing. | |
| The whole idea of the police investigating non-crime is absurd. | |
| The only consequence is that people get the word, button your lip, don't upset Britain's special people. | |
| Last year, police logged more than 13,000 cases of non-crime hate. | |
| Each took an estimated five hours of police time, and that works out to about 60,000 cop hours. | |
| Britain must be wonderfully crime-free to be able to send police out to dress people down if they won't shake hands. | |
| Well, let's see. | |
| Here is a graph of violent crimes in Britain over the last 20 years. | |
| There's been a slight dip the last two years, but there is still well over twice as much violent crime as there was 10 years ago. | |
| What's more, three in four burglaries unsolved in England and Wales last year. | |
| That was 200,000 unsolved break-ins, and a suspect was charged in only 6% of cases. | |
| So far, all I've talked about is non-crime hate. | |
| Maybe I'll make another video about, sure enough, criminal hate. | |
| Apparently, there's plenty of that too. | |
| Malicious communication, and that can be just a tweet, can get you two years in the pokey and a fine for whatever the judge thinks he can squeeze out of you. | |
| You can spend seven years in the pokey for inciting racial hate, and you don't have to do a thing, just say things. | |
| These are sad times for a country that used to believe in personal liberty. | |
| Britain is a perfect example of what the great Sam Francis called anarcho-tyranny. | |
| Francis died in 2005. | |
| And for those of you who did not know him, Wikipedia helpfully explains that he was an American white supremacist writer. | |
| Just what Wikipedia says about me. | |
| We get anarcho-tyranny when police can't or won't control real crime. | |
| That's the anarchy. | |
| Instead, police go after law-abiding people like you and me for non-crime hate incidents, malicious communication, praying in school. | |
| Smoking in the wrong place, jaywalking, owning the wrong pistol magazine, not wearing a bicycle helmet, etc., etc. | |
| That's the tyranny. | |
| These are sad times for our country, too. | |
| And Francis saw it coming 30 years ago. | |
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