Thought Police
by Daniel Greenfield • November 28, 2024 at 5:00 am
Criticizing the friendliness of the police with Pakistani "Jew haters" had become a "possible criminal offence," while Islamists hating Jews was not.
According to the Essex police, "we police without fear or favour". In truth, they appear to hardly police anything except speech.
The authorities are not cracking down on hate speech or on incitement to violence, but on politically incorrect speech and on journalists and elected officials whom the Left opposes.... The force admitted that being offensive is not actually a crime.
The UK has become a totalitarian state where free speech, not Islamic terror, is seen as the greatest threat.
Supporting Islamic terrorism is not a crime in the UK. Speaking out against it, falling victim to it or standing up against it is.
On a Sunday morning, the Essex police showed up at the home of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson to interrogate her, because she had tweeted a photo of Manchester police officers posing with representatives of the Islamist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, some of whose leading members were recently charged with terrorism offenses.
Pearson's crime, for which Essex police formed a "gold group" normally used for dealing with major crimes, was tweeting "look at this lot smiling with the Jew haters" about the ugly photo.
The Essex police claimed that "a complaint of a possible criminal offence was made" of "potentially inciting racial hatred online". Criticizing the friendliness of the police with Pakistani "Jew haters" had become a "possible criminal offence," while Islamists hating Jews was not.
