Pride and political coercion: the collapse of freedom in the centenary year of WW1

Dec 9, 2018 by

By Joe Boot, Christian Concern.

[…] Winston Churchill called WWII the battle for the survival of Christian civilisation, because he recognised that the fight against fascism and ‘totalitarian statism’ had to be won if the freedoms of what we knew as Christendom were to be preserved. And yet, the values and beliefs of a social conservative like Winston Churchill are today referred to by modern ideological progressives – who know nothing of the sacrifices of the past – as ‘fascism’. Today, for anyone to hold the convictions that Churchill held concerning liberty, the sovereignty of nation states, private property, small government and self-government – with an emphasis on the importance of protecting life, traditional marriage, and family – is increasingly to be labelled a bigot and a hater.

The ironies are particularly thick when so much has been made in recent weeks of liberty, freedom and the sacrifices of the past. In the days since Remembrance Day, numerous articles have come across my desk highlighting encroachments on freedom and liberty in the public space. This autumn, for example, the Scottish government and police have been running a hate crime awareness campaign, utilising posters, video and social media, ostensibly aimed at ‘bigots,’ ‘homophobes,’ ‘transphobes’ and others, which are signed ‘Yours, Scotland.’ The Police and Crown Prosecution Service define a ‘hate crime’ as a criminal offense (including verbal assault) “perceived by the victim or any other person” to be motivated by hostility or prejudice on the basis of race, disability, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity – real or perceived! Without even entering the discussion of how anyone can possibly read the heart motives of a person, these incidents become hatecrimes based on the subjective perception of the (self-described) victim or any other person.

Not only does the Scottish government want hate crimes reported, they want people to listen in on one another and report others for ‘hate incidents’. A hate incident is defined as any ‘non-crime’ perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hate. Yorkshire police have appealed to people on social media to “report non-crime hate incidents”. These are chilling developments.

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