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Scottish Police Warn Hate Speech Law Will Force Cuts in Policing Actual Crime
Breitbart ^ | 04/06/2024 | Kurt Zindulka

Posted on 04/06/2024 5:55:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Scottish police have warned that the controversial new hate speech law enacted by the leftist government of Humza Yousaf will force police to cut backs on the policing of actual crimes.

The head of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), David Threadgold, warned on Saturday that the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act will necessitate sacrificing other areas of policing due to the strain on officer time recording and investigating complaints of potential speech violations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dissent; europe; freespeech; hate; police; scottish; speech; tyranny
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Is this POS yousaf going to be voted out next election or what? And who put him there in the first place?
1 posted on 04/06/2024 5:55:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, they might want to be more concerned about the inevitable toppling of all William Wallace statues.


2 posted on 04/06/2024 6:08:01 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be of UK extraction.


3 posted on 04/06/2024 6:12:32 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The U.K. “The land where everything is policed except crime.”
—Mark Steyn, August 12, 2020 (and other times)


4 posted on 04/06/2024 6:16:11 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Shocking. SHOCKING.
5 posted on 04/06/2024 6:20:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just require the complainant come to an office with limited parking between the hours of 11am-1pm to fill out a score of forms, in triplicate. One cantankerous clerk could run the office and file the forms in the folder of forgetfulness.


6 posted on 04/06/2024 6:24:41 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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Humza Yousaf

I'm not familiar with that highland clan. What does their tartan look like? Black and white like a keffiyeh?

7 posted on 04/06/2024 6:36:38 AM PDT by PAR35
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Is this POS yousaf going to be voted out next election or what?

No, because Scotland and other European countries are being destroyed demographically.

And who put him there in the first place?

Take a wild guess.

8 posted on 04/06/2024 6:41:10 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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They are right, and this is *not* an unintended consequence.


9 posted on 04/06/2024 6:54:43 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Police in the UK actually arrest real criminals? Really? I heard that in the UK everything was policed EXCEPT crime. I know that self defense there is a much more serious crime than home invasion (Tony Martin). I know that a man was recently sentenced to 2 years in jail for holding up a protest sign. I know that property come is through the roof there, kind of like big blue cities here and for the same reason.


10 posted on 04/06/2024 6:59:21 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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That sounds like a feature, not a bug.


11 posted on 04/06/2024 7:09:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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This is becoming a pattern: more police state, followed by more actual crime.

The more crime there is, the more people will support a police state, hoping for security.


12 posted on 04/06/2024 7:23:03 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As a policeman, who are you more likely to get hurt or killed confronting—someone who breaks into houses, or someone who burns a trans flag? Someone who rapes little girls or someone who hurt someone’s feelings with a ‘mean tweet’? Someone who is willing to slit his daughter’s throat to save family honor, or a woman silently praying outside an abortionist’s office?

But the Scottish government has decreed that the latter ‘crimes’ are much more important than the former. It’s for the ‘greater good’.


13 posted on 04/06/2024 7:31:40 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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That’s the plan.


14 posted on 04/06/2024 7:41:30 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Flood them with true reports of anti-Christian bigotry.


15 posted on 04/06/2024 7:59:02 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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As I keep saying, you get the kind of government you vote for.
Does that fella look Scottish? Isn’t it mostly the women causing this.


16 posted on 04/06/2024 8:02:20 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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Of course it will, that was the purpose.
Anything to draw attention away from the real criminals and real crimes.

17 posted on 04/06/2024 8:04:51 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Only because they choose to.

Ignore the *hate crime* reports just like you currently ignore the real crime reports and problem solved.

Then you have time for real crime.


18 posted on 04/06/2024 8:14:17 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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However, if someone defends themselves, the police will have plenty of time to address THAT, as if it’s a crime to defend yourself.

They can’t have the poor criminals hurt, you know.

It really should lead to more SSS.


19 posted on 04/06/2024 8:15:53 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Scotland is still over 97% white British/Scottish. They can’t blame imported voters for this one.


20 posted on 04/06/2024 8:18:51 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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