Only last week Neil Oliver said that the knew draconian hate crime laws
that were coming into being in his homeland of Scotland would incite
“mischief” from people just determined to cause trouble for their
neighbors or for people they have a beef with by accusing them of having
stirred up hatred.” His predictions may have been right as it has been
reported that Police Scotland has been overwhelmed by a flood of reports
after the controversial Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
came into force last Monday, criminalising the opaquely-worded
“stirring up hatred” towards protected groups, such as the so-called
LGBTQ2AIS community, among others. In the first week alone there have
been approximately 8,000 reports surpassing the annual total for hate
crimes in general of any other year.
Neil Oliver, warned that
Scotland is “leading the way into a new darkness borne of the power
hungry sensorial attitudes of those in office,” but, as he also pointed
out that “The police, members of the legal profession and others well
qualified to comment have warned that the authorities will be flooded
with complaint and allegations of hate crime by anyone and everyone with
an axe to grind against an enemy, or against an opponent.” and just as
expected, the law enforcement in Scotland has claimed that it “can’t
cope” with the staggering number of reports flooding into police
stations. It is just never going to be sustainable.
Police
Scotland received around 8,000 complaints under the law in the first
seven days of its implementation, and according to analysis by The
Telegraph, if this trend continues it would surpass the total number of
crimes reported annually (416,000). The broadsheet also noted that the
number of supposed hate speech violations reported to police in the
first week surpassed the total number of hate crimes as a whole recorded
in any full year in Scotland....<<<Read More>>>...