This training was leaked to the Scottish paper The Herald. The following are excerpts from their report:
Training, obtained by The Herald, states that material regarded as “threatening and abusive” under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) can be communicated “through public performance of a play.” The Scottish Tories said this appeared to be at odds with the legislation and called for the force to explain.
Meanwhile, The Herald also understands that the Assistant Chief Constable responsible for overseeing the implementation of the controversial legislation has retired after just a year in the post. David Duncan was made ACC and put in charge of Policing Together, Police Scotland’s equality, diversity and inclusion strategy, in January last year.
The force said a recruitment process for a replacement would start this month, with the Policing Together portfolio “being looked after by another chief officer in the interim.”
The new hate crime legislation consolidates some existing laws and creates a new offence of stirring up hatred against protected characteristics, including age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and transgender identity.
Police Scotland has promised that it will investigate every hate crime complaint reported, despite the force adopting a “proportionate response” approach to other crimes. The slide from the training module deals with “how might threatening and or abusive material be communicated.”
It reads:
The different ways in which a person may communicate material to another person are by: displaying, publishing or distributing the material, for example on a sign, on the internet through websites, blogs, podcasts, social media etc, either directly, or by forwarding or repeating material that originates from a third party, through printed media such as magazine publications or leaflets.
It then goes on to say “giving, sending, showing or playing the material to another person” listing examples of “through online streaming, by email, playing a video, through public performance of a play.”
[…] [Individuals] could still be charged if the words they used were such that a reasonable person would consider them threatening or abusive or intended to stir up hatred.There was, however, a freedom of expression provision added to the legislation which said that behaviour or material was “not to be taken to be threatening or abusive solely on the basis that it involves or includes discussion or criticism of matters relating to age, disability, sexual orientation, transgender identity, variations in sex characteristics.”
However, the next clause says this would also apply to “discussion or criticism relating to, or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule or insult towards” religion, religious beliefs and religious practices. “
Because that second clause spells out expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule or insult, but the first does not, some lawyers suggest this means expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, or insult in relation to age, disability, sexual orientation, race, transgender identity or variations in sex characteristics would never amount to a defence under the section of the Act on freedom of expression.
Read the rest of the report here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
So while you get arrested in Scotland for posting memes, or any content or entertainment of the sort, young adult men can get caught raping minors but be not thrown in jail because the courts say the man is too young. SEE: Scottish Court Allows 21-Year-Old Man Who Raped 13-Year-Old Girl To Walk Free Because They Say He’s Too Young To Be Jailed
In 2021 The WP reported that a national park there installed behavioral monitoring cameras to monitor civilian activity.
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah 3:5
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Thats a shame, no justice for the girl who go raped but if someone says something offensive then you’ll have the SWAT team kicking your door down…… what a world we live in, may God pour out his wrath upon this world.
This is going to go global; it’s already in the works here, in Kanadastan. For the rule of the AC to work, everybody has to be on the same page. Dissidents (haters of their policies) will have to go.
Currently, legislation is on the table that would allow the government to have the health files of all Nova Scotians! That’s where I live. https://thecanadianindependent.substack.com/p/must-watch-nova-scotia-is-preparing?r=2691vy&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true&fbclid=IwAR3a7uX-Xk2_-xM0rI-GZvzuicaLUCFyOMaWsxr-faVFkrQwNyjju0ARfjY
Translation: It’s not a privacy issue any longer; it’s a witch hunt! Those files will show them who’s shot up and who isn’t. The latter “will have to go”, just as Crime Minister Castreau said during the Trucker Convoy era. He didn’t say where we’d have to go, but there are lots of crematoriums all around us…the “ovens” of yesteryear… Maranatha!