In the High Court this morning, Mr Justice Julian Knowles ruled that the police had been disproportionate in the action they took against Harry Miller, a former police officer and a shareholder in a plant and machinery company in Lincolnshire, when they recorded as a “non crime hate incident” a series of disobliging comments he had tweeted about transgender issues.
A Mild Rebuke
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Well, it is a "red flag" situation, isn't it? Not that hating a group is a crime. Or hating a person of a group is a crime. Or hating enough to imagine taking action against a particular person is a crime. Or saying to someone else that you hate a particular person so much you feel inclined to take specific violent action to punish or rebuke a specific person and "encourage the others" as the expression goes...
So at some point along the way the free range thoughts and freely expressed feelings provide some sort of signal about inclinations and intentions and impulses. And at that point then Daddy takes the T-Bird away...
That's how Red Flag laws will work, right? That's what advocates for such laws want, isn't it? Express the wrong feelings for the wrong team in the wrong place and have your choices constrained. Obviously it's the politically correct power for the Fatherland authorities to have.
Police can take your vehicles or cash or property if they say they believe they saw evidence of a drug crime. They take it, and sell it, and keep the profits for themselves. It's not like the property is impounded until a court hears from both sides. The cops take property all the time. Because drugs. All a Red Flag law is doing is making "hate" as much a socially disapproved activity as marketing drugs. And treating ownership of firearms like ownership of cars or speedboats or grow-houses. Common sense, right?
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That's how Red Flag laws will work, right? That's what advocates for such laws want, isn't it? Express the wrong feelings for the wrong team in the wrong place and have your choices constrained.
I think what they want is to stop murders, in fairness. I don't mind constraining someone's choice to commit a murder, at least in principle.
We had a good discussion of the issue of red flag laws once. I was less opposed to them, at first, but was persuaded that opposition was necessary. You can read it here:
https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2019/03/red-flag-laws.html
and keep the profits for themselves.
Most of it goes elsewhere as it is the kickback or payment to the powers that be. The police themselves see almost no dime of it, which is why they think it is not a problem.
This is related to the issue with Vice Squads being involved in more vices than the Johns and Prostitutes they arrest.
Humans aren't very good at this game called life in 3rd density.
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