Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is United Kingdom

Explores the hypocrisy of free speech in the UK, highlighting a two-tier justice system.

Lucy Connolly spent a year in prison for making an intemperate tweet. 

Over 12,000 Britons a year are arrested for their social media posts. The police visit countless more and warn them of their "non-crime hate speech." 

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Yet...the only people who get punished for their speech are, SURPRISE!, conservatives. 

This is two-tier policing - leftists can now publicly call for our deaths with no repercussions.

It started with Ricky Jones and now it’s spreading across the country.

Meanwhile Lucy Connolly was jailed for a tweet.

By now, it is a commonplace to point out that Great Britain has a two-tier legal system, both on violent crime and the execrable hate speech regime. Or, for that matter, on whether you can protest or even merely say things that can offend people. 

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Migrants, and Labor Party members for that matter, can say anything they want without consequence. Migrant rapists are let off for sexual crimes because their culture permits or encourages them. Judges express sympathy for perpetrators of heinous crimes, including rape, because, after all, they can do such things in Pakistan. 

Let's not even get into the "grooming gangs," where police essentially aided and abetted the serial rapists. 

A Christian can be arrested for silently praying or reading the Bible on Speaker's Corner, but a leftist Member of Parliament or podcaster can literally incite people to murder, and the government shrugs. Diversity is our strength or something. 

It must be that they accept that murderous inclinations are part of their culture. Conservatives, after all, must be upright and civilized, but lefties are expected to be raving lunatics. 

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Police will escort people away for "offending" somebody, or even show up at their house and arrest them. But apparently they don't think that explicit calls to murder are "offensive."

It's bizarre. Both because in a rational world, offending somebody should not be a crime, and because the only people "protected" by such laws are Muslims and liberals. 

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These laws are all about shutting down the disfavored opinions, and everybody knows it. It's just that the political and social elite in Great Britain almost all agree that shutting down the speech of conservatives is good. 

Censorship culture is sweeping the West. There are Approved™ opinions and disapproved opinions. And woe be to you if you get on the wrong side of the political or cultural elite. 

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David Strom

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