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The Starmer government’s obsession with “thoughtcrime”

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The Starmer government’s obsession with “thoughtcrime”

Police in Britain are reportedly documenting “non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)” against children, going after a nine-year-old for calling a classmate a ‘retard’, as well as investigating two secondary-school girls for allegedly stating that another pupil smelled ‘like fish’, among various cases.

eblast promptIt is not an exaggeration to say that Britain is facing a government suppression on dissenting narratives under the increasingly discredited Marxist leader Keir Starmer

Previously, I wrote an article detailing how the anti-life Starmer government was bent on undermining pro-life activist work outside abortion clinics, such as considering banning silent prayer outside these slaughterhouses. 

Writer Ann Farmer correctly describes the anti-life agenda of the Starmer government in a report on Mercator, stating: 

“Now, in this country, we have a situation where we are not allowed to flush a baby wipe down the toilet but we can flush a baby and where killing the unborn is presented by supporters as a ‘healthcare’ choice, the equivalent of removing a diseased appendix, although the aim is to kill, not to cure, to facilitate the death of a unique, separate human being.”

Just when you might think that Britain’s Marxist elites could not get any more shameless in persecuting dissenters and unborn children, these brahmins are currently targeting children for playground affronts, at least according to a report from The Times. 

NCHIs, mooted by Britain’s College of Policing, have become an Orwellian nightmare and fodder for both domestic and international derision. 

Police are reportedly documenting “non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)” against children, going after a nine-year-old for calling a classmate a ‘retard’, as well as investigating two secondary-school girls for allegedly stating that another pupil smelled ‘like fish’, among various cases.

These aforementioned two examples illustrate how NCHIs, mooted by Britain’s College of Policing, have become an Orwellian nightmare and fodder for both domestic and international derision. 

Based on a document titled “Hate Crime Operational Guidance” (HCOG), an NCHI can be defined as any incident perceived (emphasis mine) by the victim or any bystanders to be premised on animosity or prejudice to the victim due to a “protected” characteristic (race or perceived race, religion or perceived religion, etc.).

Notably, the document points out that “the victim does not have to justify or provide evidence of their belief, and police officers or staff should not directly challenge this perception. Evidence of hostility is not required.” 

If you have “perceived” that someone has hurt your feelings, you then could arbitrarily lodge a complaint to the authorities in today’s Britain. As a complainant, you are, a priori, a “victim”, without having to provide any solid proof that your target has actually offended you. 

In other words, if you have “perceived” that someone has hurt your feelings, you then could arbitrarily lodge a complaint to the authorities in today’s Britain. As a complainant, you are, a priori, a “victim”, without having to provide any solid proof that your target has actually offended you. 

In another recent and high-profile case, two policemen visited Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson at her house to blame her for an alleged NCHI. When Pearson probed the two unwelcome visitors as to what “hate speech” she had made in her tweets, the officers rebuked her, as per her version of the story. 

One officer supposedly informed Pearson that “I was accused of a non-crime hate incident. It was to do with something I had posted on X a year ago. A YEAR ago? Yes. Stirring up racial hatred apparently.”

Besides, the officers declined to tell Pearson who her accuser was. The journalist recounted: “‘It’s not the accuser,’ the PC stated.  ‘They’re called the victim.’”

Rather than actually crack down on real criminals hurting and killing British citizens, the Starmer government is obsessed with naysayers questioning their DEI ideology. 

Pearson noted that if she had, instead of tweeting, stolen £199 worth of goods from a supermarket, the police would have let her remain scot-free given they have been instructed not to deal with  thefts below £200.

The police have since verified that they are questioning Pearson under the Public Order Act, which outlaws material “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”. 

Sounds like the sort of things that could only happen in Communist North Korea or China when a mainstream news journalist gets probed by the authorities over certain tweets made a year ago? 

Well, such a despotic reality has arrived on British shores. It isn’t surprising as well that even vicars, doctors, and social workers have been questioned by police over NCHIs, as per The Times.

Indeed, the priorities of Starmer’s Marxist government as well as that of Britain’s Home Office and College of Policing are worrying, to say the least. Rather than actually crack down on real criminals hurting and killing British citizens, the Starmer government is obsessed with naysayers questioning their DEI ideology. 

Put it simply, in today’s Britain, if you offend the feelings of the ultra-sensitive woke mob, you should face the consequences. Expect more children to be probed for playground disputes and possibly face the trauma of getting their names recorded in NCHIs. 

After all, didn’t Home Secretary Yvette Cooper recently declare that “not enough is being done to counter extremism—including both Islamist extremism and far right extremism”?  Didn’t she also disclose that she had instructed the Home Office to conduct a “rapid review” of the Prevent programme to address “poisonous ideologies that corrode community cohesion and fray the fabric of our democracy”? 

Additionally, Cooper has proclaimed that she hopes to repeal a policy passed by the previous Conservative government which aimed to stop the police from arbitrarily documenting NCHIs because of an alleged rise in both “anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate” in the past year. 

In an article in The Telegraph, Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union (FSU), stated that the government policing of “non-crime hate incidents” is not about stopping hate  but rather about imposing “left-wing orthodoxy” and cracking down on dissent.

Young astutely states:

“NCHIs are a form of ‘pre-crime’, with the idea being that if you put the frighteners on someone guilty of saying something ‘hateful’, but which isn’t against the law, you deter them from taking the next step, which would be to commit a hate crime.”

Put it simply, in today’s Britain, if you offend the feelings of the ultra-sensitive woke mob, you should face the consequences. Expect more children to be probed for playground disputes and possibly face the trauma of getting their names recorded in NCHIs. 

Fortunately for the time being, concerned British parents can contact the Free Speech Union if their child has been targeted with an NCHI and hope for the best that their child’s name can be removed. Nonetheless, the fight against an increasingly dystopian government is far from over.

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Angeline Tan | Remnant Columnist, Singapore

Angeline Tan is a Catholic writer who relishes history (Church history, East Asian history, war history), fiction writing (Jane Austen, GK Chesterton's Father Brown series, Quo Vadis by Henryk Siekiewicz, among others),Baroque architecture and art (Nicholas Poussin, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, etc.), and the Japanese art of tea.

Having lived in Asia, Europe, and North America, Angeline appreciates the universal nature of the one, true, Catholic Faith across various continents and cultures. If she does "go missing" in a church crowd, her family and close friends usually know where to find her -i.e. the church bookstore, where she is happily engrossed in browsing the latest additions or sieving through long-forgotten second-hand books that nevertheless reveal timeless realities.

Her favorite saints include Saint Joseph, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Saint Philomena, Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Saint Theophane Venard, Saint Michael the Archangel, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of all Saints.

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