What on earth is going on with the police?

Feb 1, 2022 by Jill

by David Baker, Christian Today:

I’m not, as you might initially think, talking about the recent police intervention into the situation regarding Downing Street parties and the Sue Gray report. (Though there are some good questions to be asked around all that – such as what were the No 10 officers doing or thinking when said parties were taking place to start with: just turning a blind eye?)

No, I’m talking about some very concerning cases just this month which seem to involve the police attempting to curb people’s freedom of thought and expression in relation to sex and gender issues.

Case number one: in Wales, Jennifer Swayne (53), a women’s rights campaigner, was arrested for “an alleged hate crime” (as The Times put it) after she put up posters about trans women in prisons, posted stickers to do with related issues, and said that “humans never change sex.” Gwent police raided her home and removed – without explanation – a book of academic essays on the “theory and practice of trans-gendering children.”

Case number two: police in Scotland visited the home of the founder of a charity which supports women who have suffered domestic abuse. Nicola Murray, of Brodie’s Trust, was interviewed by police after “being reported for hate crime, after stressing its female-only services” even though “no offence had been committed” (The Times again).

Read here

The Thought Police are here, by Brendan O’Neill, spiked: Criticise the trans lobby and you can expect the cops to come round to ‘check your thinking’.

The woke police are a menace to freedom, by Jo Bartosch, spiked: “They seem more interested in clamping down on gender-critical views than violent crime.”

Felix Ngole’s barrister: police should fight crime, not push wokery, by Tony Rucinski, Coalition for Marriage