re: #223 Jimmah

Don’t be stupid. You can’t arrest people unless they have committed a crime. You can’t just boot someones door in and shout “Oi! All you lot are too radical. Your nicked!”

Same goes for all the radical anti-abortionists in the states. Sure, they may be unhinged; they may fail to condemn the murder of Dr Tiller, for example - but we can’t arrest them for thoughtcrime. We can only arrest them for actual crimes - and their planning.

Well I think you may be overstating it there. The truth is there are hate speech laws in the UK (similar to Canada as well) which are a limit on freedom of speech. It need not be conspiracy.

The Public Order Act includes the following provision:
A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if—
(a) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.

It is certainly true that words themselves would be sufficient to warrant a charge in many cases.