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I brought up a few simple principles. One was the version of love for his neighbor. The other often belongs to the voltaire: “I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say.” My strong faith in this statement was partly a journalist. Therefore, I do not agree that I read is a point of reading: Helps me decide what I think.
Until recently, I thought I was living in a country where Voltaire’s statement was founded. John Locke was written in the UK Two risk of government And the beneficial coffee houses have been formed. John Stuart Mill published in Scotland Freedom. Britain’s unique comedy and mock marks have been entertaining for everything and everyone for centuries. However, now the freedom of expressing an intervention of 38 percent is under the threat.
It was possible to read the drops of the ugly individual situations, only rare patterns. The couple arrested her child’s primary school for criticizing the WhatsApp group. The bank employee was fired in order to ask an innocent question in various training. After tweeting the Penestine protesters, a retired and past constable, seized and captured electronic devices, was a special constable, “a step looking for Jewish arrives.”
Unfortunately, the number of works and arrests increases because hate speech is becoming an amorphous and mud concept. What started people as a good attempt to protect people from generation, went to us, has become an arbitrary expansion of state power Both major parties. Conservative Home Secretary Sajid Javid said in 2018: “Hate crimes go directly against a long time British Values of unity, tolerance and mutual respect. “However, these values are now in confusion and concerns.
Hate crimes since 2007 have been determined as “to commit any crime against personal characteristics of victim or any person in Wales.” Only some groups are protected, requires endless requirements to expand the scope. Hate crimes were officially pleased to recognize the homeless, old people, even after a young man).
More Orwellian is the “hatred events from crime” presented after the black teenage slave. Criminals, a 9-year-old 9-year-old adult who called a patient who fights a patient because a classmate, a “delay” fighting a hedge and bisexual. According to the exchange of thinking tank policy, police can spend up to 60,000 hours a year. The existing home secretary wants the police to use the “common sense”, but will not cancel them. Again, the concept of “crimistist” is double. Should not be available.
The last two cases, I have tried my obligation to the voltage’s principle. Last year, a 51-year-old physiotherapist was unknown in violation of the buffer zone after praying silently near the abortion facility in Bournemouth. I have a choice of passion and have great sympathy to any woman who feels she was attending that clinic. But honestly, I can’t say that the action represented should be criminalized so that it was so intimidated.
Liberals a tougher problem Lucy Connolly, a 41-year-old child and the mother who lost this week to judge. Connolly was arrested after the last summer riots after the prison, a young man appeared in a dance class by an oglu of an immigrant. He sent a completely dirty tweet: “To delete four hours,” he said: He has not been in prison. But his 31-month-older has been in the age of hatred. However, the race is more than some riots that caused physical damage. The volatility decided that “this reason is that it causes serious riots used in mindless violence. This is a reason for a stretch of cases.
One thing I am useful is Brandenburg vs Ohio (1969), a US Supreme Court decided to interpret the free speech of the first amendment to reduced free speech in the Constitution. The government can punish the inflammatory speech, the court said that if the court was “focusing on or extract or produce inevitably illegal action and produce such actions.” It feels like a pretty good template: the distribution of tough and committed and a sense of crime.
Police are put in an impossible position here: small resentment and score settled. This is not only distracting the solution of larger crimes; He breaks confidence to a nation who is not comfortable with himself.
The mixture of emotions is a fool to try the police. The area of a crystalline has become confused and arbitrary for both police and the public. We must look at the first amendment, regardless of what is happening in America.
