Who Needs Evidence for “Hate”? By Mrs Vera West
In the UK, the legal system has dropped one component of the traditional law of evidence, for now no evidence at all is needed to make a complaint for a hate crime, apart, I suppose, for the accused being white:
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/10/no-evidence-needed-report-transphobic-hate-crime-new-cps-guidelines/
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has held a “public consultation” and issued “revised” guidelines on “hate crimes” and “transphobia”, which are likely to result in ever increasing numbers of people being dragged through court for speech crimes. As well as setting out policy on racism, homophobia, and “transphobia”, the new guidelines include the “first public policy statement on Crimes Against Disabled People” to stress the CPS “understand[s] the serious nature of these crimes”. The new guidelines reaffirm the fact that no evidence is needed to bring a criminal complaint against someone for a “hate crime”, as “reporting… is subjective and is based on the perception of the victim”. In order to treat a crime as a hate crime for the purposes of investigation, there is no need for evidence to prove the aggravating element”, the guidelines add. “Hate crimes” receive harsher sentences than other crimes, and “aggravating” factors are often vague, such as the definition of “transphobia”. Speaking to Breitbart London, London Assembly Member and UKIP Education Spokesman David Kurten explained the possible impact of these guidelines. “While judges may not actually find the accused guilty, more people may be dragged through the courts for months and years for their opinions and beliefs, and in the process lose their job, their house, their marriage and their kids, as well as being left destitute after fighting a lengthy court battle,” he said.’
Day by day, the traditional rule of law crumbles. In the end, the law begins to lack authority and law needs that to survive. It is just not going to make it as the paradoxes now are too sharp and painful.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/10/11/allegedly-transgender-prisoner-life-raping-assaulting-women-female-jail/
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