Finland’s Supreme Court will hear the case of a politician facing “hate crime” charges over her Christian beliefs on marriage and sexuality. 
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Finland <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/bible-tweet-case-to-be-heard-at-finnish-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would hear the case of Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, who is facing state charges related to her sharing a 2019 tweet that included pictures of Bible verses and a pamphlet on marriage she wrote back in 2004. The charges were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finnish-court-dismisses-hate-crime-charges-against-politician-on-trial-over-christian-beliefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously dismissed</a> by the district court and the Helsinki Court of Appeal.
The case will now be heard by the Supreme Court, Finland&#8217;s top court for private law cases. The state prosecutors want the court to fine Räsänen tens of thousands of Euros and want her to be censored. Bishop Juhana Pohjola will be tried at the same time on similar charges for publishing Räsänen&#8217;s writings on marriage.
Charges <a href="https://adfinternational.org/campaign/free-speech-on-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were brought</a> against them after Räsänen publicly questioned why the church denomination she was part of was sponsoring an LGBT &#8220;Pride&#8221; celebration. She was accused of “agitation against a minority group,” under the section of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Finnish law. 
Räsänen said Friday that she has a “peaceful mind” and is “ready to continue to defend free speech and freedom of religion before the Supreme Court, and if need be, also before the European Court of Human Rights.” 
The member of parliament, who is being backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom International, added that the investigation into her had been going on for nearly five and that the outcome would have major implications for free expression. 
“This was not just about my opinions, but about everyone’s freedom of expression,” she said. “I hope that with the ruling of the Supreme Court, others would not have to undergo the same ordeal. I have considered it a privilege and an honor to defend freedom of expression, which is a fundamental right in a democratic state.” 
The case has garnered international attention, with Republican lawmakers in the United States urging the State Department Officials to step in and support Räsänen.
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“This is a watershed case in the story of Europe’s creeping censorship,” said Paul Coleman of the Alliance Defending Freedom International. “In a democratic Western nation in 2024, nobody should be on trial for their faith – yet throughout the prosecution of  Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola, we have seen something akin to a ‘heresy’ trial, where Christians are dragged through court for holding beliefs that differ from the approved orthodoxy of the day.”

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Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is a vocal proponent of his nation&#8217;s new hate crime law — which has placed &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> in the crosshairs — but that didn&#8217;t stop citizens from using its provisions to report him for hate speech.
According to the BBC, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68721208" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of complaints</a> had been made under the new law&#8217;s provisions — namely one aimed to stop people from &#8220;stirring up hatred&#8221; based on certain protected classes — within hours of it taking effect. The news outlet also reported that a large number of the complaints were against Yousaf himself, mostly relating to a 2020 speech he gave while serving as Justice Secretary.
In that speech, Yousaf complained about the number of white leaders across the nation of Scotland and advocated for more diversity in leadership roles — but he did so in a fashion that was widely criticized as &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;anti-white.&#8221;
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Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf described <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jk_rowling</a>’s tweets as “offensive and upsetting.”
Scotland passed a “hate speech” bill and on the first day received over 4,000 complaints. 
The majority of them were reportedly about Humza’s anti-white racist comments.
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&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1775888412798517472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Scottish police responded to the large number of complaints, telling the BBC that they had already looked into Yousaf&#8217;s comments back in 2020 and had determined that there was nothing criminal about what he said. They also confirmed that the new law would not be implemented retroactively.
Community Safety Siobhian Brown weighed in on the complaints that overwhelmed police in the early hours of the law&#8217;s implementation, worrying that a good portion of them could be classified as &#8220;fake and vexatious.&#8221;
Brown blamed &#8220;misinformation&#8221; for the influx, but said that police were equipped to deal with the situation. She went on to reassure the public that there would be a high standard set for what would actually be considered criminal: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been very clear within the act this is not about restricting freedom of expression, it is to protect.&#8221;
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According to Brown, the statement must &#8220;be threatening or abusive with the intent to a stir up hatred towards an individual&#8221; to the point that it causes the person to fear for his or her safety.
A number of complaints were also directed at Rowling, who openly criticized the law and said that she would not comply if told she must refer to trans-identifying men as &#8220;women.&#8221;
She doubled down on April 1, even as the law went into effect, and laid out a series of posts labeling trans-identifying men as men — prompting a public complaint from Yousaf calling her words &#8220;offensive and upsetting.&#8221;
Rowling fired right back via X, saying, &#8220;Most of Scotland is upset and offended by Yousaf&#8217;s bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism, but we aren&#8217;t lobbying to have him locked up for it.&#8221;
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Most of Scotland is upset and offended by Yousaf’s bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism, but we aren’t lobbying to have him locked up for it. <a href="https://t.co/dTXKXORlGp">https://t.co/dTXKXORlGp</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775886785849045478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Scottish First Minister Defends Hate Crime Law. Citizens Use It To Report Him.

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Would you be willing to go to prison over a chocolate bar?
Hopefully, that ridiculous question will always remain hypothetical and never actually affect you. But if you live in Scotland, unfortunately, that question now requires much more thought. Thanks to those in charge of making Scottish laws, you could get in some serious trouble for simply handing out the delicious and biologically accurate <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Chocolate</a>.
No, this isn’t satire.
Scotland’s recently enacted “<a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/section/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hate Crime and Public Order</a>” law makes Jeremy’s Chocolate a dangerous commodity to have on your person. Before you laugh that off as an insane notion, take a look at how the country’s new law defines a hate crime:
<blockquote>A person commits an offence if—(a)the person—(i)behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive, or (ii)communicates to another person material that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive, and (b)in doing so, the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons … (emphasis added).</blockquote>
It should also be noted that the punishment for the ghastly crime of offending “a reasonable person” who considers your offense “threatening or abusive” is up to seven years in prison.
The law was created to protect multiple categories and demographics of people, including based on their age, disability, and religion. But the law gets potentially troubling for our Scotch friends who consume Jeremy’s Chocolate when it also considers you to be “stirring up hatred” if a person views your actions or words as “threatening or abusive” toward people based on their sexual orientation or transgender identity.
As Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotland-makes-it-illegal-to-hurt-a-trans-persons-feelings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> put it, “The problem is that, by the bill’s own terms, the people determining what’s ‘reasonable’ and what’s ‘hateful’ are people who believe that biology isn’t real.”
Since those of us here at The Daily Wire and Jeremy’s believe in the fundamental truths of biology, the wording of Scotland’s hate crime law could make our delicious chocolate bar “hateful,” and make handing it out to the wrong person a crime.
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Jeremy’s Chocolate is extremely clear about the facts of biology with the <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate/products/jeremys-chocolate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He/Him bar</a> that contains nuts made alongside the <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate/products/jeremys-chocolate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">She/Her bar</a>, which of course, is nutless. Those earth-shattering allusions to the easily understood biology of men and women could very likely make some unhinged leftist with a Scottish accent go ballistic and claim the chocolate bar represents a threatening and abusive message that “stir[s] up hatred” against trans-identifying people.
The new law begs the question: could someone in Scotland get thrown in prison for seven years for the kind act of sharing a He/Him chocolate bar with his bearded neighbor who wears a dress and goes by “Lila”?
We hope that sort of judicial abuse never happens, but it’s a warranted concern. Even here in the U.S., leftists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sweet-victory-prof-suspended-for-distributing-jeremys-chocolate-goes-back-to-class" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried to destroy</a> a California professor for simply handing out Jeremy’s Chocolate to students. Professor David Richardson was suspended from his position last year after some students and a trans-identifying colleague cried about his table of snacks that included Jeremy’s Chocolate. Thankfully, Richardson won’t face any criminal charges, and he was vindicated when he was allowed to return to class earlier this year.
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There was some good news for Scots who want to continue enjoying Jeremy’s Chocolate without hiding from the cops. On Tuesday, legendary author J.K. Rowling poked the bear following the enactment of Scotland’s new law and found there was no bite. After writing numerous posts about the law and standing up for biology, police in Scotland received multiple complaints asking for them to take action against the “Harry Potter” author.
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If you genuinely imagine I’d delete posts calling a man a man, so as not to be prosecuted under this ludicrous law, stand by for the mother of all April Fools’ jokes. <a href="https://t.co/ZVZQ6CV47p">pic.twitter.com/ZVZQ6CV47p</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1769412494353678400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Scottish cops said Rowling’s social media posts on the reality of men and women didn’t warrant them to take action against her.
That’s good to hear, but if Jeremy’s Chocolate caused such a ruckus on an American college campus, what will it do in a country that now considers offending a trans-identifying person as a crime worthy of a seven-year prison sentence?

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Is Handing Out Jeremy’s Chocolate Now Illegal Under Scotland’s New ‘Hate Crime’ Law?

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Bad ideas that start in Europe eventually end up in the United States. The most recent bad idea in Europe is that hate speech should be criminalized.
The European Union has pushed this, and now, Scotland is pushing it. Scotland has a brand new hate crime law which has come into force.
The BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51j64lk2l8o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on this, saying:
<blockquote>The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of &#8220;stirring up hatred&#8221; relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex. &#8230; The maximum penalty under the new act in Scotland is a jail sentence of seven years. A person commits an offence if they communicate material, or behave in a manner, &#8220;that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive,&#8221; with the intention of stirring up hatred based on protected characteristics.</blockquote>
The claim of the Scottish government is that this does not infringe on free speech because Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects ideas that offend, shock, or disturb.
Proponents of the law <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68703684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a>, “You have to be really threatening and really abusive, and there has to be a reasonable assumption from others that that is the case.”
The problem is that when it comes to things like gender identity, the entire case advocates make for transgender nonsense is that simply saying “a man is not a woman” is not only harassment, but deadly harassment. It is a threat, a form of abuse, because that transgender person is going to kill themselves if that person is called by their original sex or their original name.
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This is obviously incredibly dangerous. The fact that Scotland has gone forth in this manner is astonishing.
The oversensitivity and desire for victimhood is so strong these days that, obviously, anybody could use this law and file a police report.
And that is the problem: All of this becomes discretionary when a law or the terms of a law are so broadly defined that they are basically at the discretion of the government. You have no protections in terms of rights at all.
Why should we be worried about this coming across the border to the United States? After all, we have a First Amendment, don&#8217;t we?
The answer is that if there were a Left-wing majority on the Supreme Court, there is very little doubt that “anti-discrimination” law, which applies in a wide variety of jurisdictions across the United States, would be applied to crack down on free speech.
It would not be considered free speech to engage in “discrimination” in a place of business. And by “discrimination,” that might mean you said a man was a man. That would be verboten under anti-discrimination law in places like New York and California.
The Supreme Court currently has a majority of conservatives. But if there were an activist Supreme Court Left-wing majority, they would undoubtedly curb the First Amendment so as to mirror the law in places not only like Scotland, but also in places like Canada. The entire West has decided the First Amendment and free speech principles not only are in play, but absolutely should also be thrown out in favor of the sensitivities of “victimized groups.”
All of this is the wages of a new paganism, of a new pagan ideology, that has decided basic Western values — like free speech, freedom of religion, property rights, all things the West has been characterized by for centuries — are inherently bad and discriminatory, and that pagan ideology has gained root.
Why? Because free speech and freedom of religion are rooted originally in Judeo-Christian values. The idea of freedom of religion is rooted in the Peace of Westphalia, which arose from conflict between Protestants and Roman Catholics during the Thirty Years’ War. The idea of freedom of speech is an Enlightenment concept that relies on the idea of freedom of mind, which is reliant on a notion that as human beings, we have a core obligation to seek a higher truth.
That core obligation to seek a higher truth requires us to have discussions with one another, to investigate and to pursue. That is a religious concept, and all of these things are outgrowths of Judeo-Christianity.
The problem is that the West has cut itself off from the roots of its own ideology. A philosopher named Will Herberg wrote about Judaism (and his words also apply to Christianity) in a book titled, “Judaism and Modern Man.” This is what <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/690247-the-attempt-made-in-recent-decades-by-secularist-thinkers-to">he wrote</a>:
<blockquote>The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of Western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as &#8220;humanistic&#8221; ethics, has resulted in our &#8220;cut flower culture.&#8221; Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die.
So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity — the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality.</blockquote>
This is exactly right. We live in a cut-flower culture. We live in a culture that is living off of the exhaust of the fumes that are left in the tank from millennia of Christian civilization, and before that, Judaic civilization.
As we have cut ourselves off from those roots, we are flowers that are still in the vase, but the flowers are withering.
And they are withering quite quickly.

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If you were running the government of Scotland right now, you&#8217;d have no shortage of serious, potentially civilization-ending social problems to contend with. Chief among them would be that, before long, there might not be very many Scottish people left.
Since 2011, Scotland&#8217;s <a href="https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-results/scotland-s-census-2022-rounded-population-estimates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">birth rate</a> has been well below replacement level, meaning far more people are dying than being born. There were more than 630,000 deaths, and only 580,000 or so births. And yet, despite those numbers, Scotland <a href="https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-results/scotland-s-census-2022-rounded-population-estimates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded</a> its largest population in history as recently as 2022.
How could that be? You can probably guess. 
Like many other nations all over the world, including the United States, Scotland is importing boatloads of poor foreigners to make up the difference. The result has been exactly what you&#8217;d expect. Scotland&#8217;s economy is now in a death spiral, with more than one million of its five-and-a-half million residents <a href="https://www.jrf.org.uk/poverty-in-scotland-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">living</a> in poverty and no clear solution to the problem. The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to grow by nearly 30% by 2045, while the number of children is projected to drop by roughly 20%. Unless something changes very soon, Scotland may be completely unrecognizable by the time its next census rolls around.
In political terms, this is what&#8217;s commonly called an &#8220;existential threat.&#8221; A serious country would enact policies to reverse this trend immediately, starting with turning away the so-called refugees and migrants that Scotland can&#8217;t tolerate, much less accommodate. But Scotland has decided on a very different course of action. Instead of, say, encouraging more Scottish citizens to have families, the government of Scotland has decided to suspend the right of freedom of speech. And they&#8217;ve suspended the freedom of speech with the express purpose of endorsing and protecting transgenderism — an ideology that&#8217;s antithetical to reproduction, and which openly calls for the sterilization and castration of children.
This is precisely the sort of thing that self-loathing societies do when they decide they don&#8217;t want to exist anymore. It&#8217;s the path Scotland is on and, as I&#8217;ll explain in a second, it&#8217;s exactly the same plan our leaders are following in this country.
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The specific law I&#8217;m talking about is called the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/section/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hate Crime and Public Order Act</a>, and Scotland formally enacted it on Monday. It <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/section/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminalizes</a> the act of , &#8220;behav[ing] in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive,&#8221; if in doing so, &#8220;the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons&#8221; based on one of the following characteristics: &#8220;age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or variations in sex characteristics.&#8221;
Anyone found guilty under this law can be sentenced to prison for up to seven years. Let me restate that: If you say something that a &#8220;reasonable person&#8221; in Scotland considers abusive, then the government can throw you in prison for seven years.
There are sites springing up all over Scotland where you can report wrong-think if you notice it, including, for some reason, sex shops in Glasgow. Watch:
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Of course it&#8217;s a woman with big glasses defending this transgender &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; legislation. She reassures us that &#8220;freedom of expression&#8221; is &#8220;really important,&#8221; except when it&#8217;s &#8220;abusive.&#8221; But who defines what&#8217;s abusive? The bill doesn&#8217;t say. I checked. The only limiting principle is that this legislation says it doesn&#8217;t outlaw &#8220;discussion or criticism,&#8221; whatever that means. But once discussion or criticism becomes &#8220;abusive,&#8221; according to &#8220;reasonable people,&#8221; then it&#8217;s a serious crime and you&#8217;ll spend the better part of a decade in prison.
The problem is that, by the bill&#8217;s own terms, the people determining what&#8217;s &#8220;reasonable&#8221; and what&#8217;s &#8220;hateful&#8221; are people who believe that biology isn&#8217;t real.
The whole bill is established with the express understanding that it&#8217;s &#8220;reasonable,&#8221; by default, to believe that anyone can change their gender in an instant. That is what the bill is saying is the reasonable position. It literally says that &#8220;transgender identity&#8221; is something the law needs to recognize and protect. And as we&#8217;ve seen, trans activists are willing to cry about &#8220;genocide&#8221; if you use a pronoun they don&#8217;t like. These are the “reasonable” people who get to set the boundaries of what&#8217;s &#8220;abusive&#8221; and what&#8217;s not.
In effect, what this means is that the truth has just been outlawed in Scotland.
Tell the truth about transgenderism, and you can go to prison for longer than a serial rapist. That&#8217;s not an exaggeration, by the way. Late last year, a man who <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/rapist-given-lighter-sentence-due-to-immaturity-at-time-of-assaults-13012994#:~:text=A%20teenage%20rapist%20has%20been,15%2Dyear%2Dold%20girl." target="_blank" rel="noopener">raped</a> three schoolgirls — ages 14 and 15 — in the Scottish town of Falkirk received a sentence of just six years in prison. If he had &#8220;misgendered&#8221; them instead, he&#8217;d have gotten a tougher sentence.
To be clear, this isn&#8217;t insanity, although that&#8217;s certainly what it looks like. It is, instead, a declaration of war by the government of Scotland against its own people. At every turn, they are working towards the destruction of future generations. And now they&#8217;re making it illegal to talk about it.
As a result, there is now a non-zero chance that bestselling children&#8217;s author J.K. Rowling could soon be arrested. When this law took effect, Rowling posted a lengthy <a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thread</a> on social media, listing various men who identify as women in the UK — including men who have raped small children.
&#8220;Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren&#8217;t women at all, but men, every last one of them,&#8221; Rowling <a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749954629652873?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote.</a> She continued: &#8220;In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. &#8230; It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal. I&#8217;m currently out of the country, but if what I&#8217;ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.&#8221;
Already, as you&#8217;ve probably guessed, many people in the UK are calling for Rowling&#8217;s arrest. A lawyer named Rajan Barot, for example, <a href="https://x.com/RajanBarot24/status/1774846191764652523?s=20">wrote</a> that Rowling had engaged in a &#8220;deliberate act of defiance,&#8221; and that the police &#8220;must mount a full investigation.&#8221; And by the letter of the law that was just enacted in Scotland, the police are obligated to do that. For offending the cult of transgenderism, J.K. Rowling could soon be imprisoned for up to seven years.
This is the new definition of blasphemy in the UK. Transgenderism is the new state religion. And just to underscore that point even further, this same law — this same Hate Crimes bill that bans anyone from criticizing transgenderism — also repeals the <a href="https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/factsheet/2020/04/hate-crime-bill-what-it-will-do/documents/hate-crime-bill-information-note-blasphemy/hate-crime-bill-information-note-blasphemy/govscot%3Adocument/Hate%2BCrime%2BBill%2B-%2BInformation%2BNote%2BPdf%2B-%2BBlasphemy%2B-%2BRevised%2BAugust%2B2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">existing blasphemy law</a> on the books in Scotland. That had been in effect since the common law was created, but it&#8217;s gone now. Again, I&#8217;m not exaggerating for effect here.
This is literally a line from the same bill: &#8220;The common law offence of blasphemy is abolished.&#8221; And really, it makes sense. After all, you have to destroy the old religion to enact the new one. The Scottish government understands that as well as Mao did. They understand it as well as Joe Biden&#8217;s administration did on Easter Sunday.
But this is not a story about the internal affairs of Scotland. What&#8217;s happening in Scotland is not some kind of aberrant, overly extremist application of Leftist doctrine, rather, it&#8217;s the logical end result. When you value feelings over truth, and define untruth as truth, what follows next is inevitable.
Anyone who really believes that men can become women, and that affirming biological reality is tantamount to genocide, is eventually going to throw you in prison. That&#8217;s why they use terms like &#8220;genocide.&#8221; It&#8217;s not to accurately describe what you&#8217;re doing, it&#8217;s to justify destroying your life by force, through any means necessary.
You might be thinking to yourself — “Well, that can&#8217;t happen here, at least not to the extent it&#8217;s happening in a place like Scotland. After all, we have a much more robust Constitution here, and our First Amendment protects the freedom of speech from government interference. And surely, if the government explicitly said it was going to target people for their speech in this country, and then ruined them, then there&#8217;d be a major outcry over it.” If you thought that, however, you&#8217;d be wrong.
The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, is of course best known for her campaign to seize all of the assets of the leading presidential candidate. What she&#8217;s not so well known for is her campaign to target the website VDARE, explicitly because of its inconvenient and unpopular beliefs. This is a story that&#8217;s gotten very little attention in conservative media, but it&#8217;s every bit as scandalous as what Letitia James is doing to Donald Trump.
Shortly after she took office, as <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/05/24/experts-vdares-real-estate-deals-may-cost-group-nonprofit-status" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by the fringe Left-wing activist group Southern Poverty Law Center, Letitia James promised to target conservative and Right-wing organizations based on their speech: &#8220;In 2020, James said her office would take tougher legal action on organizations that engage in real-life discriminatory actions and online hate speech against protected classes.&#8221;
It&#8217;s an astonishing statement because there is no such thing as &#8220;online hate speech&#8221; in this country. We&#8217;re not Scotland, at least not yet. That&#8217;s the point of the First Amendment. But Letitia James just admitted, out in the open, that she was going to ignore the First Amendment, and go after people saying things online that she didn&#8217;t like. And that&#8217;s exactly what she&#8217;s done.
Over the weekend, VDARE <a href="https://vdare.com/articles/it-is-finished-nyag-letitia-james-crucifies-vdare-com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that the New York attorney general&#8217;s office has ruined them financially with a subpoena that requires them to, &#8220;review 40 gigabytes of emails, an enormous amount. .. And of course these [emails] could in fact reveal the names of those pseudonymous writers, as well as our donors, privileged communications with lawyers, etc.&#8221; In all, VDARE says the subpoena could cost more than $150,000 to comply with, and as a result, the website may not be around for very much longer.
All of this is happening without VDARE being accused of any criminal activity whatsoever. There&#8217;s apparently just a suspicion of a possible violation of New York&#8217;s nonprofit rules, relating to their purchase of a castle as a conference venue several years ago. (Which they needed to purchase, because hotels wouldn&#8217;t let them host conferences there). But the New York AG&#8217;s office isn&#8217;t being very specific about what the problem is, so we&#8217;re really speculating about the specifics.
And as VDARE&#8217;s Lydia Brimelow said in a recent interview, New York really doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with VDARE, so their whole fixation with the organization is a little strange. In fact, VDARE has been trying to leave the state behind for a while now. The castle property that&#8217;s at issue is in West Virginia. Watch:
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So VDARE is being chased around by a vindictive attorney general for an out-of-state property they bought. I&#8217;m no expert on the facts of the case, but at a glance, what VDARE is apparently being investigated for is somewhat similar to what BLM has admitted to doing.
We know BLM spent a lot of money buying multiple lavish mansions — not just one conference venue. But BLM was never subjected to any kind of investigation. They never had the New York attorney general, or any other attorney general, bombard them with subpoenas. And we know why that is. It&#8217;s because BLM is on Letitia James&#8217; side. VDARE isn&#8217;t. VDARE likes to talk about things like crime statistics, and what happens in cities like Baltimore. So therefore, like Donald Trump, they need to be crushed. Every real-estate transaction they&#8217;ve ever engaged in needs to be carefully scrutinized until they&#8217;re broke.
Suddenly Scotland&#8217;s decision to suspend freedom of speech doesn&#8217;t seem so unthinkable here. If Letitia James can get away with targeting a Right-wing media outlet like this, while admitting it, then we&#8217;re basically there already.
If anything, we could learn from what&#8217;s happening in Scotland. At least they have someone like J.K. Rowling who is willing to go to jail over what Scotland&#8217;s government is doing. Is there anyone in this country who&#8217;s even suggested sacrificing anything for a site like VDARE? Of course not. They have unfashionable views. So they won&#8217;t be around much longer. Inevitably, that means the people who decide what&#8217;s &#8220;unfashionable&#8221; will be coming for you, too.

Scotland Makes It Illegal To Hurt A Trans Person’s Feelings

Scotland Makes It Illegal To Hurt A Trans Person's Feelings

J.K. Rowling

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Just one day after Scotland&#8217;s new Hate Crime Act took effect, police announced that they would not pursue criminal charges against &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> under its provisions.
The law creates a new crime of &#8220;stirring up hatred,&#8221; particularly with regard to certain protected classes and designations — and there were many who believed Rowling might come under scrutiny for X posts standing up for biological women&#8217;s spaces and refusing to refer to trans-identifying men as &#8220;women.&#8221;
&#8220;The force said complaints had been received but no action would be taken,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68712471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC reported</a> with regard to Rowling and the new law.
The author responded to the news via X, saying, &#8220;I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women — irrespective of profile or financial means — will be treated equally under the law.&#8221;
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I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women &#8211; irrespective of profile or financial means &#8211; will be treated equally under the law.<a href="https://t.co/CsgehF2a5d">https://t.co/CsgehF2a5d</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775187763995824350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rowling had previously thumbed her nose at the new law — promising to defy it herself and to proudly stand alongside any other woman who did the same — saying that she would not allow the truth to be censored in an effort to spare the feelings of biological males who wanted to usurp women&#8217;s roles and spaces.
&#8220;If you genuinely imagine I’d delete posts calling a man a man, so as not to be prosecuted under this ludicrous law, stand by for the mother of all April Fools’ jokes,&#8221; she said to one critic who advised she delete posts referring to trans-identifying men as men.
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If you genuinely imagine I’d delete posts calling a man a man, so as not to be prosecuted under this ludicrous law, stand by for the mother of all April Fools’ jokes. <a href="https://t.co/ZVZQ6CV47p">pic.twitter.com/ZVZQ6CV47p</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1769412494353678400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rowling made good on her April Fools Day promise, sharing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-look-forward-to-being-arrested-jk-rowling-torches-scotlands-new-hate-crime-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thread that showcased</a> some of the worst male offenders who would be protected — at the expense of biological women — under the new law.
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Scotland&#39;s Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11 <a href="https://t.co/gCKGwdjr5m">pic.twitter.com/gCKGwdjr5m</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls,&#8221; the author concluded. &#8220;I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.&#8221;

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Scottish Cops Say J.K. Rowling’s Tweets Aren’t Considered Criminal Under New Law

Scottish Cops Say J.K. Rowling's Tweets Aren't Considered Criminal Under New Law

Women who are critical of gender ideology are slamming Scotland&#8217;s new hate speech law, saying it restricts them from voicing their views on biological sex.
The new <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/82/contents/made" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a>, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, went into effect on Monday. The measure criminalizes &#8220;stirring up hatred&#8221; relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or being intersex.
The maximum penalty for violations is seven years in jail.
Critics quickly spoke out against the law, saying it risks jailing people for voicing their sincerely held opinions, particularly those critical of gender ideology.
Under the law, a person may not communicate material or behave in a way that &#8220;a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive&#8221; with the intention of stirring up hatred based on the newly protected characteristics.
Racially-based hatred was already outlawed in Scotland, but the new law adds more protected categories.
Many voiced their opposition to the law on social media, posting under the hashtags #FactIsNotHate and #WomenWontWheesht — &#8220;wheesht&#8221; meaning &#8220;hush&#8221; in Scotland.
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Women have been out and about in Scotland with our Hate Crime posters. Women&#39;s Rights Are Not A Hate Crime. Here&#39;s some fabulous women <a href="https://twitter.com/ff_scotland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ff_scotland</a> Alloa Festival. We will not be silenced!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FactIsNotHate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FactIsNotHate</a> <a href="https://t.co/pIsWO2pesD">pic.twitter.com/pIsWO2pesD</a>
&mdash; WRN Scotland (@WRNScotland) <a href="https://twitter.com/WRNScotland/status/1774696700923256964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I will not lie. I will not betray women. Our rights matter. We are defiant. We will not be silent. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FactIsNotHate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FactIsNotHate</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TruthIsNotACrime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TruthIsNotACrime</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FactIsNotACrime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FactIsNotACrime</a> <a href="https://t.co/KsjUCDDrEZ">pic.twitter.com/KsjUCDDrEZ</a>
&mdash; Cathy Larkman 💚🤍 💜🦢🏃‍♀️ (@JackMerched) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackMerched/status/1774581852562423931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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We’ll be continuing to go about our lives speaking the truth. We won’t be silenced by the Hate Crime Bill ✊✊✊<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TruthIsNotACrime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TruthIsNotACrime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FactIsNotHate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FactIsNotHate</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FactIsNotACrime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FactIsNotACrime</a> <a href="https://t.co/kRNMHwHDKE">pic.twitter.com/kRNMHwHDKE</a>
&mdash; GTF Glasgow Tactical Feminists (@GTFGla) <a href="https://twitter.com/GTFGla/status/1774689482798694786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I will not lie. I will not betray women. Our rights matter. We are defiant. We will not be silent,&#8221; wrote one social media user on X.
&#8220;A Woman is an Adult Human Female,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/Your_mums_aTerf/status/1774578740023939220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. &#8220;The law can not protect what it can not define. My son claims he&#8217;s a woman, he is not. It is my protected belief humans can not change sex.&#8221;
&#8220;Men are not women. Will this statement now result in arrest in Scotland? Indefinite seizure of devices? Hate crime incidents secretly recorded? A dystopian nightmare, brought about in the name of &#8216;inclusion&#8217;. Shame on you #Scotland,&#8221; another user <a href="https://twitter.com/brandubh4/status/1774585540752318872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
Some X users tagged the Scottish police in their posts.
Author J.K. Rowling <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615">challenged</a> police to arrest her over her posts criticizing gender ideology.
&#8220;Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal,&#8221; Rowling posted Monday on X, adding that, &#8220;if what I&#8217;ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested.&#8221;
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Rowling added that Scottish lawmakers &#8220;seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.&#8221;
She said the new legislation is &#8220;wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence&#8221; women who criticize gender ideology.
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🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉
Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren&#39;t women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their…
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749954629652873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Elon Musk criticized the law as well.
&#8220;An example of why it is so important to preserve freedom of speech,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770032208662663278" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> earlier this month on X in response to another post discussing the law.

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Women Gender Ideology Critics Protest Scotland’s Hate Crime Act

Women Gender Ideology Critics Protest Scotland's Hate Crime Act

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J.K. Rowling responded on Monday to the enactment of Scotland&#8217;s new Hate Crime Act, delivering a brutal X thread showing just who such laws would protect.
The author, making good on a promise to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-delivers-hilarious-translation-of-woke-trans-allys-x-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deliver the goods</a> on April Fool&#8217;s Day, laid out a list of biologically male criminal sex offenders, most of whom preyed on young women and girls — and without violating the new law by &#8220;misgendering&#8221; a single one, she painted a disastrous picture of the consequences she says such &#8220;hate crime&#8221; laws could have on female victims.
&#8220;Scotland&#8217;s Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew!&#8221; Rowling began, sharing screenshots of Douglas posing with weapons while issuing threats to an &#8220;anti-trans&#8221; company.
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Scotland&#39;s Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11 <a href="https://t.co/gCKGwdjr5m">pic.twitter.com/gCKGwdjr5m</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Lovely Scottish lass and convicted double rapist Isla Bryson found her true authentic female self shortly before she was due to be sentenced,&#8221; Rowling continued in mocking tones. &#8220;Misgendering is hate, so respect Isla’s pronouns, please. Love the leggings!&#8221;
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Fragile flower Katie Dolatowski, 6&#39;5&quot;, was rightly sent to a women&#39;s prison in Scotland after conviction. This ensured she was protected from violent, predatory men (unlike the 10-year-old girl Katie sexually assaulted in a women&#39;s public bathroom.) 3/11 <a href="https://t.co/13J5XfRo3a">pic.twitter.com/13J5XfRo3a</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774748047815135286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Fragile flower Katie Dolatowski, 6&#8217;5&#8243;, was rightly sent to a women&#8217;s prison in Scotland after conviction. This ensured she was protected from violent, predatory men (unlike the 10-year-old girl Katie sexually assaulted in a women&#8217;s public bathroom),&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s next post read.
&#8220;Samantha Norris was cleared of exposing her penis to two 11-year-old girls. Hooray!&#8221; The &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author continued. &#8220;Unfortunately she was then convicted for possession of 16,000 images of children being raped and sexually assaulted. Be that as it may, Sam’s still a lady to me! &#8221;
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Scottish woman and butcher Amy George abducted an 11-year-old girl while dressed in female clothing. No idea why this was mentioned in court – of course she was wearing women’s clothing, she&#39;s a woman! Amy took the girl home and sexually abused her over a 27-hour period. 5/11 <a href="https://t.co/xy3DmnqZrc">pic.twitter.com/xy3DmnqZrc</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774748992317882717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Scottish woman and butcher Amy George abducted an 11-year-old girl while dressed in female clothing. No idea why this was mentioned in court – of course she was wearing women’s clothing, she&#8217;s a woman! Amy took the girl home and sexually abused her over a 27-hour period,&#8221; Rowling added.
&#8220;But most women aren’t axe-toters or sex offenders, so let’s talk role models! Guilia Valentino (in red) wanted to play on the women&#8217;s team &#8216;because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility,'&#8221; Rowling said, adding a post on biological males taking over women&#8217;s spaces for political and cultural attention. &#8220;Naturally, she was given some boring cis girl’s place. Yay for inclusion!&#8221;
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Mridul Wadhwa, head of a Scottish rape crisis centre, says, ‘sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well.’ She has no gender recognition certificate, but was still appointed to a job advertised for women only. Time to be ‘challenged on your prejudices’, rape victims! 7/11 <a href="https://t.co/YfxUhbh6cw">pic.twitter.com/YfxUhbh6cw</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749262934356448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rowling also addressed the trauma that she says victims might experience in being forced to allow biological males into spaces that were designed specifically to protect victims from further abuse.
&#8220;Mridul Wadhwa, head of a Scottish rape crisis centre, says, ‘sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well.’ She has no gender recognition certificate, but was still appointed to a job advertised for women only. Time to be ‘challenged on your prejudices’, rape victims!&#8221; Rowling said.
Rowling rounded out the thread with several political and cultural leaders who espoused a platform of protecting women and women&#8217;s rights but could not define what a woman was.
&#8220;Munroe Bergdorf isn’t just a pretty face! Public campaigner for a children’s charity until safeguarding concerns were raised, she was appointed UN Women’s first ever UK champion. ‘What makes a woman “a woman” has no definitive answer,’ says Munroe. Great choice, UN Women!&#8221; Rowling cracked.
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Katie Neeves has been appointed as the UN Women UK delegate. She switched from straight man to lesbian at the age of 48 and, in a leaked 2022 webinar, described how she used to enjoy stealing and wearing her sister’s underwear. A truly relatable representative! 9/11 <a href="https://t.co/VKzF7IuJTU">pic.twitter.com/VKzF7IuJTU</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749594926076218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Katie Neeves has been appointed as the UN Women UK delegate. She switched from straight man to lesbian at the age of 48 and, in a leaked 2022 webinar, described how she used to enjoy stealing and wearing her sister’s underwear,&#8221; the author mocked. &#8220;A truly relatable representative!&#8221;
&#8220;Last, but least, TV’s India Willoughby proves we women can call a black broadcaster a ‘nasty bitch’ who ‘wouldn’t be anywhere without woke,’ dub lesbians men, insult the looks of a female Olympic swimmer, ‘joke’ about kidnapping feminists, and STILL get airtime! What a gal!&#8221; Rowling concluded.
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🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉
Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren&#39;t women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their…
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749954629652873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But then the author delivered the punch line: &#8220;April Fools!&#8221;
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&#8220;Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren&#8217;t women at all, but men, every last one of them,&#8221; Rowling declared. &#8220;In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.&#8221;
Rowling then made it clear that she was not afraid of any possible repercussions she might face from speaking out against the new law.
&#8220;I&#8217;m currently out of the country, but if what I&#8217;ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,&#8221; the author concluded.

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The Illinois Supreme Court will hear Jussie Smollett’s appeal after an appeals court in December upheld his conviction for disorderly conduct.
The conviction stems from Smollett’s 2019 claim that he was the victim of a hate crime – an allegation that proved to be false. The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday released <a href="https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/1ddf8abe-5325-4153-8797-7f4d5b9958d2/March%2027,%202024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a list</a> of cases that it would allow to appeal, and Smollett’s case is included.
In December, a state appeals court upheld Smollett’s conviction in a 2-1 vote, WLS <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/where-is-jussie-smollett-today-empire-supreme-court-now/14578113/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_TW&amp;taid=660457abf4ed320001808e38&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Smollett then took his appeal to the state Supreme Court. A hearing date for the appeal has not been set.
In January 2019, Smollett claimed he was walking alone at night in Chicago during a polar vortex when two supporters of former President Donald Trump — allegedly carrying rope and bleach — recognized him from his role on “Empire” and brutally attacked him while yelling racial and homophobic slurs.
Smollett returned to a friend’s home and called the police, still wearing the noose that he said was placed around his neck by his attackers.
It was later reported that Smollett hired two Nigerian brothers he had previously worked with to stage the attack to raise his profile and hopefully get him a raise on “Empire” and further his acting career. The brothers alleged that Smollett paid them to buy plain red hats that he later claimed were “Make American Great Again” (MAGA) hats, signaling the attackers’ support of Trump.
In September 2020, Smollett insisted he was “set up” and continued to claim that he was attacked by two white men wearing MAGA hats. The brothers who said they were paid to stage the attack are black. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-insists-he-was-set-up-says-he-has-two-new-witnesses-to-refuse-hoax-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time that Smollett suddenly started claiming he had two witnesses who could prove he did not fake the attack.
After Chicago police investigated Smollett’s original claims for two weeks, they suspected he had staged the attack. Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, but those charges were dropped as part of a sweetheart plea deal made with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.
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A special prosecutor was assigned to review the deal, and ultimately revived six of the original charges against Smollett, who was convicted of the charges in 2021. He spent just six days in jail after he appealed his 150-day sentence.
In March of last year, the brothers who helped Smollett stage the attack <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brothers-who-helped-carry-out-staged-attack-on-jussie-smollett-apologize-in-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized</a> during an appearance on Fox News.
“I just first want to apologize to everyone in the audience, the country, and anyone who might have been affected by this directly. When we were asked to partake in this, we really didn’t foresee the ramifications of what something like this could do to the country,” one of the brothers said. “We allowed our ambition to cloud our judgment.”

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The New York Post Editorial Board published a piece Thursday laying into a recently-introduced bill that they argued would turn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a> into an Orwellian nightmare.
The bill in question (Bill C-63), referred to as the Online Harms Act, was first introduced by Justice Minister Arif Virani in February — and would <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/14/world-news/canadian-law-endorsed-by-trudeau-could-imprison-people-for-speech-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">empower the government</a> to place citizens on house arrest if social media posts provide &#8220;reasonable grounds&#8221; for officials to believe that someone &#8220;will commit&#8221; a crime.
&#8220;No, Canada!&#8221; the Post&#8217;s Editorial Board wrote in response. &#8220;The country that brought you debanking protesters and government-assisted suicide for the poor now wants to criminalize speech to lock up people for life and to put wrongthinkers under house arrest if the state sees a chance they will commit a crime. Doesn’t get more Orwellian than that.&#8221;
Minister Virani claimed that the bill was all about safety on the internet, something that he said hit close to home because he had children himself — and suggested that it would be no different than forcing toy manufacturers to abide by certain product safety regulations.
Another provision in the bill addresses &#8220;advocating for genocide&#8221; and increases the penalty for that particular infraction from five years to life in prison — and the Post noted an inherent risk in that provision as well.
&#8220;We’re sure a law that criminalizes &#8216;advocating for genocide&#8217; could never be twisted to criminalize support for Israel,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;The pro-Hamas left will have a field day.&#8221;
The penalties for social media companies would be steep as well if they dared to refuse cooperation if the bill becomes law: fines could be upwards of a staggering 6% of global revenue.
&#8220;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; author Margaret Atwood pointed out the dystopian future the bill was likely to help facilitate, saying via X, &#8220;If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet all over again. The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting! Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill.&#8221;
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If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet all over again. The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting! Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill <a href="https://t.co/GziivgfNGt">https://t.co/GziivgfNGt</a>
&mdash; Margaret E Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) <a href="https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood/status/1766323300853297262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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NYPost Slams Canadian ‘Thought Crime’ Bill That Goes Full ‘Minority Report’

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Best-selling “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Harry Potter</a>” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">JK Rowling</a> refused to apologize or change her wording after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgender</a> activist called the police for the “hate crime” of referring to the individual as a man.
India Willoughby, a man who identifies as a woman, explained the situation during an <a href="https://twitter.com/BylineTV/status/1765484416275472570">interview</a> with Byline News. 
“She knows I’m a woman and she calls me a man,” Willoughby complained. “It’s a protected characteristic and that is a breach of both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act,” the activist continued, referring to United Kingdom standards.
A Community Note was added on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">Twitter</a> under the interview clip, stating that it is not a crime to refer to a trans-identifying person by their sex, as such speech is recognized as a belief and protected under the Equality Act.
“I’ve been to the police and I’ve reported it as an issue,” the former “Big Brother” contestant continued. “I don’t know if that’s going to be treated as a hate crime or malicious communications, but it’s a cut-and-dried offense as far as I’m concerned, and at the end of the day it is a hate crime.”
“Calling a trans person a man, deliberately, knowing that person is a woman… is grossly offensive,” Willoughby insisted.
Rowling clapped back with a series of tweets. 
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Surprisingly for such an eminent legal authority, he appears to have forgotten that the Forstater ruling established that gender critical views can be protected in law as a philosophical belief. No law compels anyone to pretend to believe that India is a woman. 4/5
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1765518705859977328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Some time ago, lawyers advised me that not only did I have a clearly winnable case against India Willoughby for defamation, but that India&#8217;s obsessive targeting of me over the past few years may meet the legal threshold for harassment,” she shared with her 14 million followers.
“I ignored this advice because I couldn&#8217;t be bothered giving India the publicity he so clearly craves. Nevertheless, we must all do our bit to combat hate, so India will be glad to know I&#8217;ve taken note of his homophobia, racism, and humane stance on immigration,” Rowling added in the thread.
“Nor have I forgotten India&#8217;s shocking transphobia. It appears to have slipped what passes for India&#8217;s mind that he&#8217;s previously called a fellow trans woman a man on this very site,” she wrote, sharing a series of screenshots to prove her point. 
“Surprisingly for such an eminent legal authority, he appears to have forgotten that the Forstater ruling established that gender critical views can be protected in law as a philosophical belief. No law compels anyone to pretend to believe that India is a woman,” Rowling wrote.
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“Aware as I am that it&#8217;s an offence to lie to law enforcement, I&#8217;ll simply have to explain to the police that, in my view, India is a classic example of the male narcissist who lives in a state of perpetual rage that he can&#8217;t compel women to take him at his own valuation.”
Rowling has become a vocal dissenter of radical transgender activism ever since being attacked for tweets she wrote in 2020 mocking the phrase “people who menstruate.” Critics have dubbed her a TERF, or trans-exclusive radical feminist, due to her having leftist views but refusing to go along with the narrative that a trans-identifying man is a woman.

Trans Activist Calls Cops On JK Rowling For ‘Hate Crime’ Of Calling Him A Man

Trans Activist Calls Cops On JK Rowling For 'Hate Crime' Of Calling Him A Man

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Michael Cassidy, a 35-year-old Navy veteran, was charged with a hate crime on Tuesday after he admitted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-charged-for-beheading-satanic-display-in-iowa-state-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beheading a Satanic statue</a> that was on display in the Iowa State Capitol building last month.
Cassidy, a Christian who lives in Mississippi and previously ran for a congressional seat, was arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief after beheading the statue. Court documents now say that the damage done to the statue will cost between $750 and $1,500 to repair, and prosecutors allege that Cassidy acted &#8220;in violation of individual rights&#8221; under Iowa’s hate crime statute, KCCI <a href="https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-satanic-temple-display-vandalized-capitol-michael-cassidy-hate-crime-charges/46588538#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The documents also note that in light of new evidence, his charge has been upped to third-degree criminal mischief, a class D felony.
&#8220;Evidence shows the defendant made statements to law enforcement and the public indicating he destroyed the property because of the victim’s religion,&#8221; <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/01/30/iowa-capitol-satanic-statue-vandalism-hate-crime-michael-cassidy-mississippi/72413585007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Lynn Hicks, a spokesman for the Polk County Attorney&#8217;s Office, according to the Des Moines Register.
The Satanic Temple of Iowa had received permission from the state to display a Baphomet statue in the state capitol building, and it was reportedly set up near Nativity displays showcased for the Christmas holiday.
Shortly after the incident, Cassidy <a href="https://republicsentinel.com/articles/exclusive-christian-tears-down-and-beheads-satan-shrine-in-iowa-capitol?fbclid=IwAR3IAvn-ot35lKKtSK6UhP1YOt7PFHyjQdEWQCCzjMiB26OWyYC8y197168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> to The Republic Sentinel why he decided to destroy the Satanic display.
“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy told the outlet in December. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”
“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy added. “Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.”
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds spoke out in opposition to the Satanic statue but urged people to counter the “objectionable” display through more speech.
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“Like many Iowans, I find the Satanic Temple’s display in the Capitol absolutely objectionable. In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech, and I encourage all those of faith to join me today in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display – the true reason for the season,” Reynolds <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-charged-for-beheading-satanic-display-in-iowa-state-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
A <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/michael-cassidy-legal-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GiveSendGo</a> set up for Cassidy’s legal defense has raised more than $90,000.

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