Why is Essex Police questioning Allison Pearson for writing things on Twitter when burglars, rapists & thieves run wild?
We don’t just have two-tier justice, we now have two-tier speech as well.You might wonder why police would spend even a nano-second worrying about non-crimes when there are more than enough actual crimes for them to be dealing with.


And, no, he doesn’t mean the terrorist bomb exploding as a kind of hate crime, he means hurty words that someone might be offended by.Welcome to Thought Crime Britain, where thieves and burglars are free to roam our streets with impunity, but saying the wrong thing — even when no crime has been committed — will bring the police knocking on your doorWhich is strange, because we already have more than a million of the damn things racing about our towns and cities, according to estimates.
No defence
Well, think again, because it’s already happened to an estimated 250,000 people since 2014, according to the Free Speech Union.
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Because in the last year, Essex police have solved just one in eight robberies and violent assaults, a mere one out of every ten sexual assaults and only one in 15 burglaries.But these non-crimes were invented under a Tory government and things are only going to get worse with the Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pushing police to record even more thought crimes against people who wrong-think and wrong-speak.The creation of Thought Crime brings an imagined dystopian future into the here and now.I won’t hold my breath but can the blight of e-scooters really get any worse than it is already?
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That’s an average of 66 people EVERY SINGLE DAY!The Thought Police aren’t only taking on journalists, they’ve gone for supposedly wrong-thinking politicians too.
What’s even more worrying is that the Essex police chief is no worse than the 42 other chief constables who inflict this sinister madness on law-abiding citizens while abjectly failing to do the job of fighting real-life crime.The one upside to legalising e-scooters is that we can then regulate them.This is just the latest Orwellian assault on our right to free speech and no one should under-estimate the threat this poses to every other freedom we enjoy.Astonishingly, those hurty words don’t even have to be hateful, as an NCHI only requires that someone perceived them to be offensive, an entirely subjective opinion that requires no evidence and allows the accused no defence.I WANT to congratulate the Chief Constable of Essex Police for doing a magnificent job.The police officers who visited Allison allegedly refused to tell her which of her many tweets is under suspicion or what was hateful about it, or who has complained, and now say she may have committed an actual crime.You might think this would never happen to you.
Surely this must be the case because otherwise, Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington wouldn’t have two officers with so little to do that they were sent to knock on the door of a middle-aged woman last Sunday, to question her about some apparently hurty words she wrote on social media a whole year ago.
Even a 73-year-old woman was slapped with an NCHI simply for taking a photo of a sticker on a lamppost that stated “Keep males out of women-only spaces”!Even more extraordinarily, the police aren’t required to tell you what you’ve been accused of or who has accused you of a hate crime, making it impossible to defend yourself.The Stasi would be proud.And that can only work if they have to be registered and have licence plates and insurance, so that the many rogue e-scooter riders who ignore red lights and ride on the pavement will face hefty fines to deter them.
Two-tier speech
According to Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, ‘hate crime’ ranks alongside rape, child abuse and stabbings as posing ‘the greatest potential threat’ to our communitiesBut, according to Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, “hate crime” ranks alongside rape, child abuse and stabbings as posing “the greatest potential threat” to our communities.Many don’t even know they’ve got an NCHI recorded against them — until it’s flagged up by criminal records checks when they apply for a new job.But you’d be wrong, because that is apparently what happened to Telegraph newspaper columnist Allison Pearson when police turned up at her door last weekend to question her, she claimed, about a “non-crime hate incident” (NCHI) she is alleged to have committed by posting a tweet on Twitter/X an entire year ago.
Yet only rental scooters are currently legal on public roads as part of a bizarrely FOUR-YEAR trial.Julia
Some weave dangerously in and out of traffic, riding terrifying fast along the pavement and then are unhelpfully dumped on the sidewalk.Big Brother, eat your heart out.Welcome to Thought Crime Britain, where thieves and burglars are free to roam our streets with impunity, but saying the wrong thing — even when no crime has been committed — will bring the police knocking on your door.


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We are left with a victimless crime while Allison is a crimeless victim.So you would think they’d have better things to do than harass an award- winning journalist in her dressing gown on a Sunday morning, wouldn’t you?

Incredibly, every burglar, rapist, bike and bag thief, violent criminal and shoplifter in his county has been arrested and is on the way to court, and hopefully a prison term, while the good folk of Essex can sleep soundly in their beds knowing the streets are safe.Unfortunately, this turns out not to be the case.Amber Rudd, the former Tory Home Secretary, was accused of a non-crime for a party conference speech in 2016, while ex-cop Harry Miller had to go all the way to the High Court to get a ruling over a police report about a satirical tweet and women’s rights campaigner Maya Forstater still faces potential criminal charges for “malicious communication” for an allegedly transphobic tweet.THE Government plans to legalise electric scooters on our public roads.
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Elon Musk and Boris Johnson have weighed in on Allison’s case.Now we’re told it’s time to give in and accept these death traps are here to stay.