British schools are creating ‘hate registers’ to monitor boys and girls who might be accused of what used to be called schoolyard banter but is now considered “homophobic.” And the British government could soon make such lists mandatory.
Consider the case of Peter Drury. The 10-year-old was messing around with a friend and allegedly called him a “gay boy.” Peter’s mother was called to the school and was told her child would be placed on a registry and his behavior would be monitored throughout his academic career.
“He doesn’t even understand about the birds and the bees, so how can he be a homophobic?” Penny Drury told The Daily Express. “Peter is a very naïve boy who didn’t know what he was doing and is now very upset that he is in trouble.”
While a number of British school keep records of racist, homophobic or anti-disability bullying, it isn’t mandatory – but that could change later this year. The government is considering a plan to make it a “statutory duty” for all schools to register incidents and for local police to maintain a database.
One British civil liberties group said as many as 40,000 children have had racist charges added to their school records.
One children’s advocacy group, Kidscape, expressed grave concern over the report. “Children are being criminalized and singled out from a very early age when they don’t know what they are doing,” spokesman Micele Elliott told the newspaper.
The question on this side of the pond – when or if such registries and databases will be kept in American schools.
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[...] Todd Starnes: “British schools are creating ‘hate registers’ to monitor boys and girls who might be accused of what used to be called schoolyard banter but is now considered ‘homophobic.’ And the British government could soon make such lists mandatory.” [...]
This wingnut action underlines one of the critical differences between the British and U.S. legal systems. In Britain, there is no constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. In the U.S., in contrast, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution normally protects the utterance even of words which others find objectionable or offensive.
Of course, the incorrectly-named “liberals” (for they are opposed to individual liberty) are busily trying to erode First Amendment protections with so-called “hate crimes”
legislation. Not only does that movement seek to suppress speech, but it attempts to criminalize thoughts, something that harks back to the bizarre Imperial Japanese Kempei Tai or “Thought Police”.
Not only are “hate crimes” statutes and regulations dangerous to personal liberty, but they are utterly unnecessary. There are already on the books more than a sufficiency of laws to punish the “crimes” part of any “hate crimes” and, anyway, actions are what laws should address, not motives, intentions, or thoughts.
Britain has become one severely diseased country. Their twisted morals have sunk so far they are practically beyond hope.
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