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UnHerd ✒ A bill brought forth by the SNP aims to police what citizens say at home.

Rod Dreher 

In the Soviet Union, not even the home was a refuge from the ears of the totalitarian state. Historian Orlando Figes, in his 2007 book The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, quotes one Soviet woman’s memory of her childhood:

We were brought up to keep our mouths shut. ‘You’ll get into trouble for your tongue’ — that’s what people said to us children all the time. We went through life afraid to talk. Mama used to say that every other person was an informer. We were afraid of our neighbours, and especially of the police … Even today, if I see a policeman, I begin to shake with fear.

Decades from now, will a Scotsman brought up in Edinburgh or Glasgow offer a similar testimony to historians documenting our era? The question is by no means absurd, not in light of the Hate Crimes and Public Order Bill brought forth by the ruling Scottish National Party. In testimony before a parliamentary committee this week, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said that he believes the reach of the proposed law should cover words spoken in the privacy of people’s homes.

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Scotland Is Leading The Way To Totalitarianism

UnHerd ✒ A bill brought forth by the SNP aims to police what citizens say at home.

Rod Dreher 

In the Soviet Union, not even the home was a refuge from the ears of the totalitarian state. Historian Orlando Figes, in his 2007 book The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, quotes one Soviet woman’s memory of her childhood:

We were brought up to keep our mouths shut. ‘You’ll get into trouble for your tongue’ — that’s what people said to us children all the time. We went through life afraid to talk. Mama used to say that every other person was an informer. We were afraid of our neighbours, and especially of the police … Even today, if I see a policeman, I begin to shake with fear.

Decades from now, will a Scotsman brought up in Edinburgh or Glasgow offer a similar testimony to historians documenting our era? The question is by no means absurd, not in light of the Hate Crimes and Public Order Bill brought forth by the ruling Scottish National Party. In testimony before a parliamentary committee this week, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said that he believes the reach of the proposed law should cover words spoken in the privacy of people’s homes.

Continue reading @ UnHerd.
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4 comments:

  1. David8:32 PM, November 11, 2020

    This law's outrageous. It'll pass because people forget the vindictiveness of the state

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  2. Steve R11:19 PM, November 11, 2020

    Yep, and soon it will be an offense wherever you are to insult the Prophet (PBUH).

    In your own homes.

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  3. Brandon Sullivan1:21 PM, November 12, 2020

    @ Steve R

    Are you a betting man? Because I'd bet you £1k that it definitely, 100% will NOT be "an offense wherever you are to insult the Prophet (PBUH). In your own homes."

    I mean, do you actually believe that?

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  4. Steve R8:13 PM, November 12, 2020

    Brandon,

    Why not? If there's a person trying to insinuate that criminality should cover spoken words in privacy you can be damn sure the remit will spread from 'hatespeech' to cover any criticism of a persons religious beliefs made in private eventually. It's a slippery slope.

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