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Subject: Re: Praying at Home Could Be a Criminal Offense in Scotland Under New
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On 2024-11-23 10:37 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2024 at 4:53:13 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-11-23 1:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>   BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   Scotland has enacted new abortion legislation that could criminalize praying
>>>>   at home within designated zones. The Abortion Services Act (Scotland) 2024
>>>>   could result in prosecution for activities conducted in their own homes if
>>>>   these actions can be seen by clinic staff or patients and cause "harassment,
>>>>   alarm, or distress" to staff and patients at abortion clinics.
>>>   
>>>>   . . .
>>>   
>>>>
>>>> https://www.christianpost.com/news/praying-at-home-may-be-criminal-offense-in-scotland-under-new-law.html
>>>   
>>>   The Scottish Enlightenment gave the world Adam Smith, founder of the
>>>   economic philosophy of political economy, a major advancement of classical
>>>   liberalism. Scotland gave us Karen Gillam, and a performance as James
>>>   Bond by Sean Connery so powerful that ubersnob Ian Fleming retconned
>>>   Bond's backstory as Scottish.
>>>   
>>>   What could have possibly turned the country so illiberal today?
>>
>> That was then and this is now. It is my understanding that most Scottish
>> seats in Parliament were Labour for quite a few years but then, when the
>> SNP (Scottish National Party - separatists who want Scotland to leave
>> the UK) revived itself, most of the seats went to the SNP which was
>> decidedly "progressive" and woke. The SNP definitely took a hit after
>> the scandal involving Nicola Sturgeon and her husband apparently
>> misappropriated party funds but that STILL hasn't come before the courts
>> for reasons that are beyond me. Her successor, Hamza Yousef was a
>> Palestinian-Scot, who was appalled that so many government posts in
>> Scotland were held by whites
> 
> Can you imagine going to, say, Pakistan and complaining that so many
> government positions are filled with brown people?
> 
> 
That would, of course, be preposterous.

I thought it was brilliant of the Scots that when their hate crime 
legislation finally took effect on April 1 this year and the government 
solemnly promised to investigate EVERY complaint, a huge percentage of 
the first several thousand complaints under the law were made against 
Hamza Yousef with his clip complaining about white people in so many 
jobs being offered as their evidence!

I don't know if you've seen this but Leo Kearse did an awesome rant 
about the hate crime law after it had been enacted but before it was in 
force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMjJ6vCZX_I [21 minutes]

-- 
Rhino