There’s some truly worrying news coming out of Northern Ireland which I’ve seen today. At present I do not have all the details but what has come out so far gives me great cause for concern.
It appears that there are allegations that the Police Service of Northern Ireland is going after a gender critical lesbian feminist following what she calls a ‘malicious complaint’ that has been submitted to the PSNI. What I know so far is that the police have ‘requested’ that the Twitter user Ceri Black who goes by the name ‘Femme Loves’ on Twitter, attend under threat of arrest if she doesn’t attend a ‘voluntary’ interview with the police over Tweets that she has made criticising aspects of the gender ideology. What is extremely interesting and thought provoking about the police acting in this manner at the alleged request of a Trans Rights Activist (TRA) is that whatever Ms Black has posted appears to be of such mildness that it has not even breached the normally strict Twitter guidelines.
What also gives me pause for thought is that Ms Black, who says that she is a survivor of CSA and works for the rights of others afflicted by this terrible crime, is that she is being harassed by the police over her comments at the same time as women critical of the gender ideology and of Stonewall are gathering in several British cities including London, Belfast and Edinburgh. They are gathering to protest the once laudable but now very troubling group Stonewall and asking the very awkward but necessary questions about the undue influence of Stonewall on national and local government, broadcasters, schools, the NHS and police forces. You don’t have to be the sort of person who dons a tin foil hat to wonder whether targeting feminist lesbians who are critical of the cult of trans just before a demonstration against organisations caving into the demands of this cult, is not coincidence?
This looks to me like a case of trans rights activists using the police as a cudgel in order to intimidate women and men, but especially women, who disagree with the theology of the cult of trans. If this is a malicious complaint with no credibility in law made by a trans rights activist which the police have unquestioningly acted upon, then this shows we have a serious problem with tiny and aggressive groups, such as the members of the cult of trans, being able to use the police as their personal enforcers.
Ms Black is not taking this lying down. In a speech that she made to the pro-women and anti-Stonewall demonstration in Belfast she said:
I’m politely declining your invitation to be interviewed voluntarily under caution at the station.
Come and arrest me if you want to ask me your questions. Here I am.
Come and arrest a lesbian woman, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, a campaigner for women and children, for the crime of tweeting about how to protect children from grooming and sexual predation. Put this survivor in handcuffs and put me in a room. Go ahead. Ask your questions. Make yourselves the tools of a man who, with his army of vindictive and spiteful followers, has terrorised women across the nation, all the while making claims about his own victimhood.
This is fighting talk, but it is sadly very necessary fighting talk. It’s something that needed to be said because for far too long too many police forces in the United Kingdom have been dominated by identity politics and those who promote identity politics. This has created a situation where members of groups that have ‘protected characteristics’ or who can claim that they are, whether falsely or accurately is of no relevance here, can use the police as their personal or identity group’s enforcers. They can use the police to shut down critics, intimidate critics or even have critics imprisoned under one of Britain’s ludicrous and grossly illiberal ‘hate speech’ laws. Worse still is the situation where members of a group with ‘protected characteristics’ can utter the most gross insults to their opponents who do not come into one of these protected characteristic categories and nothing is done about them. A TRA for example can scream the most monstrous misogynistic abuse at a gender critical feminist and very little or even nothing is done about it. Too many of our police forces take their orders these days not from the people they are duty bound to serve with impartiality, but from groups like Stonewall which none of us have elected to have such influence.
It has been my experience these last 10 or more years that the police no longer protect the public and are more interested in PC and so called woke matters. We have had numerous crimes in my area in the over 15 years since I moved here including a neighbor stabbed to death but not a single one has been cleared up. In fact after a few days the police decided the neighbor was stabbed to death by accident so that closed the matter quickly and cheaply. Recently it has been the police practice to use every trick in the book to even avoid turning out to crimes usually telling those reporting them that they are civil matters and nothing to do with them. When I suffered criminal damage to my garage from an attempt to break into it I was told by the police it was a road traffic offense and it was only when I threatened an official complaint that it was properly recorded. If the police can avoid recording crime it gives the impression crime is falling without them actually having to do any real work, now that’s what I call a real result for them.
First of all sorry for not replying to your comments earlier, they came in on the Jewish Sabbath and I try to ‘do different’ on Shabbat and not ‘do’ politics as a rule.
What you say about the police turning away from the hard job of real policing to concentrate on woke nonsense and ‘hurty words’ on twitter is spot on. I’ve noticed this issue over the last ten years or so as well. They are not there for the public, they are there for those who are more ‘politically important’ than the average Joe. We’ve had a similar unsolved stabbing where I live and apart from a flurry of activity just after the murder that included taking a copy of any CCTV footage tht people might have had and an annual half hearted appeal the police have done the square root of sod all. The most likely culprit for this murder is a foreign transient as someone more local might have been more easier to find and also motive might be easier to ascertain. Because this is a hard case because the culprit has probably buggered off elsewhere, the indolent police don’t seem to be putting as much effort into finding this murderer as they maybe shold have done.
Your comment about the police using every trick in the book to avoid to avoid doing any difficult work chimes with what I’ve been told by those close to a Neighbourhood Watch group in North East London. The chair of the NW group has basically given up. He’s given up not because the levels of crime and associated criminal intimidation of people is high, which incidentally it is, but because of the lazy and couldn’t give a toss Met Police. They would not turn out for criminal damage cases even when there were witnesses and CCTV footage available. They just could not be arsed. However, take the piss out of some ‘protected characteristic’ holding panjandrum and the met can suddenly find half a dozen officers to deal with the issue.
I used to have great respect for the police, dated a policeman’s daughter, worked closely with the police when I was a court reporter and even worked as a freelance for a police trade magazine. However now, because of the inactions and bad actions by the police I have zero respect for them.
So the question you have to ask yourself is, ” Why are they being payed to do no work ”
At tax payers expense !!! I call this a fraudulent act.
Agree. It’s fraudulent in the extreme for the police to act as Stonewall’s boot boys whilst ignoring or playing down the real crime tht afflicts us all.
Interesting point, we have houses of multiple occupation in our area often used by “newcomers” that might well be the reason the investigation was brought to such a speedy conclusion. Its not much consolation for the decent residents that a killer might still be living among us but we don’t have any MPs or other important people around here so I guess it doesn’t matter.