HATE CRIMES OR BURGLARIES ? WHICH TO POLICE.

A former police Chief Constable has finally talked some sense.

At a conference attended by senior police officers and police and crime commissioners, Sara Thornton has pointed out that, at a time of limited resources, police should concentrate on dealing with violent crimes and burglaries, rather than spending their time on pursuing allegations against the dead or filling in reports of incidents which are not even crimes, such as supposed misogyny. Ms Thornton, now Chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, spoke against the current move to provide bespoke services for a plethora of supposedly desirable or deserving causes, saying that there are simply too many of these. Citing pressure to turn misogynistic acts into 'hate crimes', Thornton referred to this as being "a concern for some well-organised campaigning organisations", but clearly doesn't share their zeal.

Sadly, it seems that Ms Thornton's views are not shared by the government and its advisors. Last month, the Law Commission began to look at whether offences supposedly motivated by dislike, contempt or prejudice between the sexes should be classified as 'hate crimes', and is also considering whether prejudice supposedly based on issues of age or dislike of groups such as 'goths' or 'punks' should also be so-classified. One dreads the outcome of such nonsensical considerations.

How long will it be before simply looking at someone a bit quizzically becomes a 'hate crime' ? How long before we are now longer allowed to express any opinion about anything that doesn't comply with the rigid strictures laid down by our Masters ? There are many things I don't like but to make the expression of my feelings a 'hate crime' would be to bring about the horrifying world envisaged by George Orwell in his then futuristic novel '1984'.

Just so that I can get a few 'dislikes' in while it's still legal, here's some to be going on with :

Football hooligans,
Lying, deceitful politicians
The BBC
Burkas and niqabs
Those who parade their sexuality
Communist agitators.
Self-aggrandising 'celebrities'
Pop culture
Drug dealers
Robert Peston
Wishy-washy liberals
Religious fanatics
Feminists
Misogynists
Paedophiles
Diane Abbot
Illegal immigrants
Immigrants who don't integrate
John Prescott
Michael Heseltine
Jenni Murray
The lazy and work shy.
-- and lots more.

To be clear, I dislike these things and people, I don't hate them, though to see some of them boiled in oil would probably be quite satisfying, not that I'd do it or encourage others to do so. !