Here's another enabler MSP who wants to reduce our freedoms. When @RadioClydeNews interviewed performers and producers concerned about the Hate Crime Bill @Ross_Greer claimed their reporting was inaccurate. When they pointed out they had taken legal advice he backed down.👇
2./ It was no longer inaccurate. It was now..."contextually misleading". Now his defence of the Bill is that earlier provisions from the 1980s that could have been equally misused never have been so why would these new wholesale extensions ever be misused? This begs a question.
3./ If they were never used why bother going to this effort to extend them? I'll tell you why. 30 years on the atmosphere is different and there's now an army of over-agitated, virtue-signalling culture war extremists gagging to misuse them. Look just up the road from Holyrood.
4./ If you'd told anyone 30 years ago that the greatest philosopher Scotland (and arguably Britain) ever produced, David Hume, who helped undermine the pretensions of our home grown religious Taliban, could be cancelled for a footnote, they'd think you were mad.
5./ Of course it would have been wonderful if Hume had been an opponent of slavery like his brilliant contemporary critic Dr Johnson (who just happened to be a Tory, and a Englishman who held much of Scotland in contempt). Big surprise: no one was perfect 250 years ago!
6. The people Hume fought against are now back: the moral warriors and hypocrites with closed minds. Their beards may not be as impressive as John Knox's but their misogyny and self-righteousness would give him a run for his money as they police every utterance for a pile-on.
7./ Like Greer they'll use sophistry to defend this Bill as a small tidying up exercise. But you have to ask yourself why would the SNP prioritise this Bill now over say hospitals or the case for Indy (depending on your political point of view) unless they were deadly serious?
8./ Who knew we'd have so many MSPs who see their job as trying to restrict the freedoms we pay them to defend? In the end, do you believe the Faculty of Advocates, Police Scotland, the Secular Society or wee Ross Greer? You don't need to be David Hume to answer that question.
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