UK: Prosecutors adopt shocking new ‘thought crime’ standard – WND

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07/29/19

 

Members of the Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom – the equivalent of the U.S. Justice Department – must follow a new “thought crime” standard based on the alleged victim’s personal “perception.”

In other words, prosecutors must regard a crime as being motivated by hate if the person “perceives” himself to be of a protected class and “perceives” that the accused was motivated by hate.

 

The concept was featured by George Orwell in his book “1984,” which described a thought crime as a politically unorthodox belief, such as “doubts that contradict” the government’s prescribed belief system.

 

In the U.K., however, it appears to be reality.

 

The dictate came this month in the government agency’s “Trans Equality Statement.

 

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