We live in a time when deserving elderly British people or those with disabilities are having to beg for support from a state that seems astonishingly reluctant to help them. However at the same time that the services that Britons have paid in for are denied to us and our loved ones, it seems there is plenty of money to spunk down the drain on worthless ‘hate crime’ vanity and virtue signalling projects.

One such project, which is coming on stream is an ‘online hate crime’ project run by the Metropolitan Police and which is costing a total of £1.7 million and is funded jointly by the Home Office and by the Greater London Mayor Sadiq ‘Saracen’ Khan. The mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artists of Tell Mama/Faith Matters have been highlighting this new ‘online hate crime’ unit and have used an article published in August 2016 in the Left wing Guardian newspaper in order to do so.

This is a monstrous waste of an enormous amount of money that could better spent elsewhere such as dealing with the shocking number of extremist Muslims in the Met Police area or stemming the rising number of acid attacks that are mostly taking place in London’s more Islamised areas such as Newham. As usual, there is very little money around for proper spending on deserving causes, such as on a friend of mine who suffers from a crippling neurodegenerative disease and gets very little help with their condition. But, and this is what’s making a lot of people very angry, there’s plenty of money, or so it seems, to spend on pacifying and appeasing ‘offended’ Muslims.

Here’s the Guardian article that Tell Mama / Faith Matters has been promoting. As is usual policy for this blog the original text from the Guardian is in italics whereas this blog’s comments are in plain text.

The Guardian said:

Scotland Yard is to set up a £1.7m “troll-hunting” unit to target online hate crime, it has emerged.

The Online Hate Crime Hub, which will receive £450,000 from the Home Office, aims to support victims and receive technology training to identify offenders.

As usual there’s always money to be found for bollocks stuff like this, but never for real policing. Is it any wonder that a growing number of British people are losing faith in the police to protect them and police their areas dispassionately and effectively? I suspect that some IT consultants and fake charities are going to do very well out of this new project which will divert officers and money away from proper policing.

I can well imagine that a lot of this ‘support’ that they are going to be giving to alleged ‘victims’ who’ve been ‘offended’ will take the form of officers nodding sympathetically at Muslims who claim to be hurt by people telling the truth about Islam and its violent paedophile prophet. Something on the lines of: ‘There there, Mr Mohammed did someone call you or your prophet a nasty name? Here, take some taxpayers cash as compensation and let us shut down others rights to speak freely about Islam for you’.

The London mayor’s office for policing and crime (Mopac) said a consultation on crime reduction had identified the increasing role online hate played in targeting individuals and communities. The consultation found social media provided hate-crime perpetrators with a veil of anonymity, making it harder to bring them to justice and potentially affecting a larger number of people.

This comment could have come straight out of the long list of whines that groups like Tell Mama or Stop Hate UK make about people saying nasty but often true, things about Islam. This is not about stopping genuine crime, such as people being beaten up in the street, but is much more to do with intimidating people into shutting up about Islam.

Groups such as those mentioned have form for such activities and have consistently backed Leftist pro-censorship organisations such as Tell Mama backing the Hacked Off group, in order to achieve that aim. So what if people see nasty stuff online? I see appalling stuff on line all the time that offends me, but I block it or ignore it when I see it. Why can’t these thin skinned types do the same?

At a time when we have Islamic hate-preachers operating in London who are calling for the deaths of gays, Jews and Christians, it’s evidence of a terrible double standard that this huge amount of money is being spent on this worthless guff rather than dealing with Islamic hate preachers and other Islam related problems. Freedom to speak, even freedom to speak utter stomach churning bollocks, is a right that underpins all other rights, which is probably why so many on the Left and among Britain’s Muslim groups are so eager to shut this freedom down.

“The Metropolitan police service is committed to working with our partners, including the mayor, to tackle all types of hate crime including offences committed online,” a spokesman for the Met said.

In other words the police will be working directly under the instructions of ‘Saracen’ Khan, a man who in the past has been alleged to have had some questionable connections with some seriously dodgy Islamic extremists.

“By establishing this unit, we are sending a strong message to those who use online forums to spread hate that their actions will not be tolerated. The Metropolitan police service continues to have a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of hate crime.

Let me translate this for you. ‘The Met Police will not tolerate criticism of Islam online’. It’s a shame that the Met don’t have a similar ‘zero tolerance’ to things like FGM or Islamic Rape Gangs or Islamic hate preachers.

The Met encourages all victims of hate crime to report any incident to the police and will make every effort to hold offenders to account and bring them to justice.”

Whilst ignoring the important stuff like Islamic Rape Gangs, FGM and hate preachers of course.

Mopac also found the police response to online hate crime was inconsistent, primarily because police officers were not equipped to tackle it.

Or more likely much of what is considered as ‘online hate speech’ is what more reasonable people would call ‘free speech’. This MOPAC quango seems seriously creepy and sinister and I suspect is much more politically motivated than they really should be. Because of this unit I would advise all those who think they may be targeted by them because of their opinions to ensure that they are fully appraised of their rights when confronted by the police. As a first port of call I would advise people to read the excellent article from the Crimebodge website which details what you should and should not do when the police knock at your door asking for ‘a chat’ about something you have said or written. I’d also advise people to read an article from the same site on the subject of ‘request for voluntary interview under caution’ letters.

Those involved in counterjihad work or who are free speech campaigners should attempt to find out as much as possible about this unit and its make up so it can be rightly but peacefully, mocked in the court of public opinion. This disgusting and intrusive waste of money should be countered by protests and mockery, which is about all that it deserves, it certainly does not warrant even the tiniest modicum of respect.

The team, including one detective inspector, one detective sergeant, and three detective constables, will identify the location of crimes and allocate them to the appropriate force.

When you see the size of this team and the ranks that are involved we can start to get some idea of the cost that this vanity project is incurring. An Inspector in the Met gets £49,000 per year, a Sergeant gets £38,500 p/a and the three constables cost approximately £30.000 p/a each. All of these figures are taken from the Police Oracle site and are based on 2014/2015 figures. This means that we the taxpayer are shelling out a total of £177,500 on salaries alone for highly paid and trained officers to sit in front of computers searching for opinions that Muslims may find ‘offensive’. What a crock of shit and a complete waste of money. To give you some idea just what this salary money would buy, the average cost of a manual NHS style wheelchair is about £80, which means that the money wasted on this ‘online hate crime’ project could buy 2218 wheelchairs. Personally I’d rather see the money spent on wheelchairs than wasted on this guff.

They will also aim to develop links with volunteers who will report both criminal and non-criminal online hate incidents.

Who are these ‘volunteers’ of which they speak? Would they be the same sort of dishonest dissembling ‘volunteers’ that are advising West Midlands Police on ‘anti Islamic hate crime‘? I bet they are.

The money wasted on this venture will be money that cannot be spent on more worthwhile things and the whole ethos of the unit is an attack on people’s right to speak freely even if what they are saying is seen by some to be offensive or wrong. Neither the Met Police nor the Home Office nor ‘Saracen’ Khan seem to understand that the best way to tackle speech that is hateful is not restrictions on speech but yet more freedom of speech. The only moral and proper way to deal with bad ideas is to drag them into the open and debate them, not to shut people up.

This is not what we pay our police officers for but it’s what the Left and the Muslims want which in itself shows up the appalling double standard that afflicts policing in Britain today.