The CPS clearly has nothing to do now that real crimes have been dealt with.
Prosecutors will be ordered to treat online hate crime as seriously as offences carried out face to face in plans announced by the director of public prosecutions.
Alison Saunders said the Crown Prosecution Service will seek stiffer penalties for abuse on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms.
Saunders says the crackdown is needed because online abuse can lead to the sort of extremist hate seen in Charlottesville in the United States last weekend, which left one person dead.
So saying something unpleasant about someone on Farcebook or Twatter leads to killing people? Really? This is the same moronic attitude that says porn leads to rape or violent programmes on television leads to murder. Utter fucking nonsense. People who have the propensity to behave in this way will do so, those who don’t, won’t.
The reality here is that the CPS is continuing the state’s inexorable war on free speech. This is about prosecuting wrongthought. If you express ideas and attitudes that offend the easily offended, you are “far right” or a “Nazi” and therefore are guilty of hate crime, so must be prosecuted. What a vile world we now live in. What vile people these scum are.
Saunders hopes the new plans will see more prosecutions, with longer sentences for those convicted if a jury or judge can be convinced the crime was motivated by hate.
Looks like an ideal opportunity for jury nullification to me.
Last May, I had my motorcycle stolen. The police didn’t lift a finger to do anything about it, despite it being a real crime and despite there being an increase in such real crimes. But say something that upsets Muslims on social media and they along with the CPS will be all over you like a rash. Clearly we can see where the resources are going.
Which leaves me wondering how long Dickie Doubleday aka Rickie will survive…
I said exactly the same on another forum. It’s an act to censor and an attack on freedom of speech. Whatever happened to sticks and stone might break my bones, but words will never hurt me? Because they won’t. You can ban individuals from posting on your social media sites including twitter. This has no business being a police or CPS matter. They just knee jerk react to online hyperbole as per that bloke who joked about blowing up an airport. Madness, utter madness.
DD will do fine. You are a white male. Nothing will happen to him.
He doesn’t bother me these days. His main target seems to be Dioclese – another white male…
What constitutes a “hate crime”, pray tell?
Is it a comment contrary to the presently perceived “Good-Speak” which is virulently leftist, racially inclusive and anti white male?
What is the difference between “hate” and “dislike”? Who decides? What defence could be put forward>
Franz Kafka was prescient when he wrote The Trial.
Well, if they’re going to go after ‘hate speech’, this should keep them busy for a while:
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Although with it being state sanctioned, nay, encouraged bigotry, perhaps not…