DOUGLAS MURRAY ON SCOTLANDS HATE CRIME ACT

Rowan Atkinson is right. Freedom of speech is one of the most precious things in life. We lose it at our own peril. Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf appears to have forgotten this.
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The legislators who supported the Hate Crime Act, every single MSP, IRRESPECTIVE of Party should lose their seats at the next election. Not a single one of them should be reselected.
THIS IS NOT JUST BAD LAW. THIS IS EVIL LAW.

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On the Hate Crime Act he admits there was a “glaring flaw” in the legislation but that couldn’t stop his party backing it, says there’s been poor comms and implementation of it, and denies he’s run away from still supporting it

This is what you get for voting SNP 1&2. Are you proud of the vote that enabled a 74 yr old woman to be taken down to a Police Station and interviewed as a result of the ludicrous Hate Crime Act? Stop voting for this vile party.
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Here's Humza Yousaf, as Justice Secretary, explaining that the only way a woman is protected under the Hate Crime Act is if someone thinks she's a transwoman.

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Ian Lawson understandably angry.

''The legislators who supported the Hate Crime Act, every single MSP, IRRESPECTIVE of Party should lose their seats at the next election. Not a single one of them should be reselected.'

He's right. The HCB is very wrong.

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Today’s @theScotsman column: Hate Crime Act: Why are police treating Humza Yousaf and me differently over hate complaints? Political bias? scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

We were told the Hate Crime Act was to consolidate, ie. to bring separate pieces of hate crime law together in the one Act. Why then does Scotgov keep making more pieces of legislation with hate aggravators?

“We are where we are, to a large degree, because the Scottish Government failed women – for entirely cynical reasons relating to Nicola Sturgeon’s desire to maintain her support base – in 2021 by excluding them from protection under the new Hate Crime Act.”

This is utterly appalling & another one of the many reasons why this ridiculous Hate crime Act needs revoked !

If you tell people with an axe to grind that a grindstone exists, that it is free to use and that, moreover, they should use it, it should not come as a surprise when that’s exactly what they do.
How Scotland’s Hate Crime Act has backfired spectacularly. 🧵
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By arresting inocent pensioners on the word of an unhinged neighbour using Hate crime Act, wae tae go polis Scotland, we aw feel really safe noo🙄 !

Hello, welcome, and thank you to all the new members joining us since the Scottish Government activated its deeply illiberal and authoritarian Hate Crime Act.

We’ve put an arrangement in place with a top firm of criminal lawyers in Scotland, so if any of our members are…

It's unacceptable that many officers have still not received training on Humza Yousaf's Hate Crime Act.

This law is destined to be as disastrous as other bad SNP laws. That's why we opposed it, unlike all other parties, and believe it must be scrapped.

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If you hate the SNP & Humza Yousaf hate crime act then simply let them know at the polling station.

From Ross Thomson opinion piece in the Daily Express

Video link below.

1 in 5 police officers in Scotland have still not completed their training on the Hate Crime Act, but thousands of reports have been submitted in the first week.

Humza Yousaf’s bad law is overburdening the police and taking them away from investigating crimes in our communities.

The Hate Crime Act has limited free speech so much, that a Glasgow pub now thinks it’s safer to not have anyone taking videos on their nights out 👀

Welcome to Humza Yousaf and the SNP’s Scotland.

What specific problem is the hate crime legislation intended to address and how? What about misogyny? Is this different to England’s law? What doesn’t the law do?

Michael Foran joins us for an in depth Q&A on Scotland’s Hate Crime Act.

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