by
Les May
IN
his inaugural address on 4
March 1869 US President Ulysses S. Grant said:
‘I know
no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective
as their stringent execution’.
I
have written two earlier pieces in which I questioned the eagerness
with which some people want to want to bring about a situation where
others who say or do
something they do not like
can be prosecuted for ‘hate crime’.
Just
how ludicrous this can get is best illustrated by a case reported in
the Sunday Post last weekend.
‘Police
launched an investigation after a man claimed he was the victim of
hate crime when a branch of the Post Office refused to accept his
Scottish bank note. … An officer was asked to investigate the
claim and it was recorded for official purposes as hate crime.’
Unfortunately
in a burst of common sense the police decided not to bring a case
against the Post Office, so we will never know if Grant’s dictum is
correct.
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