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Kal EL:
get ready thought crimes are up next in the west.

Woman Who Disagreed With Gay Adoption Gets Call From Police

Cambridge Evening News | December 13 2005

AN AUTHOR has defended her right to free speech after expressing her views on gay adoption.

Lynette Burrows, of Hills Road, Cambridge, was shocked when she was told her opinion could have been homophobic. She spoke to the police on Friday and said the call was "sinister" and as if Britain was a police state.

The author of Fight for the Family was discussing civil partnerships for gay couples on Radio Five Live. Regarding gay adoption, she said a girl would not be placed for adoption with two heterosexual men.

She said: "Nobody trusts men with girls but they will give a little boy to two homosexuals, which is madness."

After the broadcast, police in London received a complaint from a member of the public, and a policewoman contacted Mrs Burrows.

Mrs Burrows said: "She said to me a homophobic incident had been registered against me. She admitted it wasn't against the law so I said 'why are you wasting my time?'

"She said it was their policy to investigate remarks considered to be homophobic. I was expressing a perfectly standard opinion on matters of public interest. It is a sinister thing if police are forming their own policy regardless of the law."

Mrs Burrows added: "I think the issue of gay adoption is something which ought to be spoken about. The idea of telling you you can't talk about it is so repressive, it's like the KGB calling you up."

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said homophobic, racist and domestic incidents were "priority crimes".

He said: "It is standard practice for all parties to be spoken to, even if the incident is not strictly seen as a crime."

7even:
The freedom of someone ends when his "freedom" limits the freedom of somebody else, like when he steals from someone or murders someone.
In consequence you are free to believe anything you want. I consider myself a true liberal and I accept everybody's opinion. Not that I agree with it, or find it wise, but I won't do anything against it except for expressing my own views.

I truly think people should be allowed to think whatever the fuck they want. That includes racists and nazis, psychos and lunatics. As long as they hurt noone, let them think what they want.

A thought police is one of the worst scenarios I can imagine. Having to pay a fine or going to jail for opinions on gays, the govt, religion etc is completely insane for democratic standards. Nuts.

Kal EL:
the sad thing is that here in the States many people don't understand that. there are people that think that tolerance means that I cannot voice my opinion if it offends someone. they do not see the Totalitarianism in that kind of policy. pretty soon it would be that you cannot voice an differing opinion about the gov't. many countries have that case in point, China amd North Korea just to name a few.

7even:
The thing with tolerance can go in endless circles. Like, if you don't tolerate intolerant persons, you're intolerant yourself, aight?

Ever since 9/11 the US govt is definitely heading towards a totalitarian regime, with policies like the patriot act for example. The name "patriot act" also illustrates the strategy to make people who question those totalitarian policies look unpatriotic, look like people who should leave the country, "love it or leave it".

This can be very dangerous.

Kal EL:
i have read about pre nazi Germany when Hitler started to get things moving and the similarities are lets just say STARTLING.

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