The left has done a masterful job of lulling people into allowing speech and thought crimes to be on the books as legislation when they simply should never, ever have been made into legislation, and even contradicted specific rights laws such as we have in Canada and the USA. “Hate Crimes” of course, is the perfect example. A judge already had the ability to factor in motive when passing a sentence for a real crime should he feel it mattered.
And now from the Italian high court:
Telling migrants to “go home” is racism, rules Italy’s top court
In a landmark decision, Italy’s highest court has ruled that telling migrants to “go away” is racism.
The Court of Cassation ruled Thursday that telling non-EU foreigners to leave the country legally counts as racial discrimination, even if racial slurs are not explicitly used.
The case relates to a man in his early 40’s who appealed for a reduction in his sentence for injuries against another person, which had been increased on grounds of racial discrimination.
The man and his co-defendant had clashed with two non-Italians after they approached them in a club in the town of Gallarate in Lombardy and said, “Why are you here, you need to go home.”
The applicant argued that his comments were unrelated to race.
The court, however, found that using generic expressions of contempt toward foreigners that are clearly based on their ethnic or religious backgrounds is equivalent to racism.
A couple of years ago, a Dutch court found Geert Wilders, a leader of the opposition in the Netherlands, guilty of speech and thought crimes because he openly opposed the current government’s immigration policies, which is his actual job! Not to mention an absolutely essential component of any democracy anywhere and any-when.
He suggested they change immigration to have fewer Moroccans, which represent a grotesquely disproportionate part of violent crime there and present an existential threat to Dutch culture. This is what opposition parties do. Recommend alternatives to legislation and people vote for it or not.
But they convicted him and fined him for doing exactly his job. And now that they have that conviction, the rest is just a matter of sentencing for the rest of us.
And now, Italian courts have done what leftists always do. Expand the definition of what constitutes the evil thought or word, and control all aspects of our day to day transactions.
This is the incremental implementation of communism ideologically speaking. A counter-revolution must take place.
A large crowd chanting in Italian to illegal and unwanted migrants of “Go home now” would probably be a good first step.
Yes a counter revolution is needed, so far counter revolutions in the European nations have been suppressed and the ordinary Europeans are forced to set at home and nurse their resentment. The problem the various Marxist governmetns are creating by crushing the counter revolutions when they could be carried out in a semi peaceful manner is that they are forcing the populations to organize in secret and plan for a violent counter revolution. This situation is aggravated by the Marxist governments refusing to punish the invaders for their crimes, the governments are acting as if they expect the criminal chaos and violence to break the will of the European people to resist. The problem with this approach is that there aren’t many of the Europeans being killed, so the intimidation is building resentment and hatred not fear of the government and their actions.
Italy is showing the way for the counter revolution to start but with Judges enforcing the thought control laws it is highly unlikely that the counter revolution will remain semi peaceful for long.
Ah yup, Richard..
“The court, however, found that using generic expressions of contempt toward foreigners that are clearly based on their ethnic or religious backgrounds is equivalent to racism.”
SmellsStinks like Thought Control to me.Trump’s ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1017922938513879040
I refer unfamiliar readers to (the sometimes elaborate wording by) Alexis de Tocqueville on the topic of, “Liberty of the Press in the United States”:
[emphasis added]
All of these exact same concerns apply to Thought Crime. Tocqueville had it precisely right about the slippery slope of Freedom of the Press and Free Speech, back in 1831. It’s difficult to imagine he’d have of anything much different to say about Thought Crime.
Just wait until the EU adopts this one.
“Just wait until the EU adopts this one.”
They may as well adopt one of those FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) orphans from Russia. Whatever net results would likely be the same. Tantrums, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Violence and, above all, extreme learning difficulties. A particular deficit that the EU has been exhibiting for many years.
Germany: Punish one, discipline hundreds – Cleaning woman sentenced for comment in the daily newspaper “Die Welt”
Read more:
http://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2018/07/germany-punish-one-discipline-hundreds.html
These bastards are really pushing it aren’t they?
It seems that they are just dying for a reaction from the silent majority so that they can go full totalitarian. I see violence approaching and (hopefully) Merkel’s head on a pole.