The Home Secretary displays his keen intelligence, moral sense and deep love of liberty
By Melanie Phillips, Spectator
The think-tank Civitas has picked up on a sinister government initiative which everyone else appears to have missed. As reported in today’s Telegraph, Civitas noticed an announcement made in September by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, to encourage people to lodge complaints about hate crimes, which they say are being under-reported.
Apparently, the government knows for certain there is a lot of ‘hate-crime’ going on. How do they know this? Because it is not being reported.
Said Johnson:
‘While it may seem counter-intuitive to some, we believe that an increase in the number of hate crimes being reported can be a sign that we are starting to have a positive impact’.
Ah! I see! So if more ‘hate-crime’ were being reported, it would mean the authorities were getting rid of it. It’s the fact that no-one knows about it that shows it’s going on in spades.
Might it be that ‘hate-crimes’ are not being reported because they are, er, not actually happening? Good grief, what a thought! Of course they are happening! Don’t we know that there is simply no-one who is not racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, transgenderist, disablist or ageist, or maybe all of the above?
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