Conservative MP and former chief of staff to Theresa May, Nick Timothy, has spoken out against the phenomenon of “two-tier” policing following the arrest of a Christian street preacher.
The police, removed from being politically neutral, have decided to act because the enforcers for the governing ideology and can come down hard against dissidents while bowing to the regime’s favoured groups, he suggested.
Timothy used the instance of John Steele, a Christian street preacher in Rotherham who was arrested after talking to a Muslim woman while offering support for ethnic minority women who’re victims of domestic violence.
Steele had asked the lady what she considered verses within the Quran that describe how husbands can treat their wives. Bodycam footage shows 4 officers telling him that they had reason to imagine he had been engaging in “anti-social behaviour”.
The case against Steele was eventually discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service, nonetheless to date this yr two people have been convicted under the Public Order Act for desecrating the Quran and insulting Islam.
Timothy also pointed to the case in Epping of locals protesting about an alleged sexual assault by an asylum seeker being housed in a neighborhood hotel. Essex Police not only escorted pro-migrant protesters, but initially denied doing so, only admitting their actions after video footage of it emerged.
This, in response to Timothy, is a transparent example of two-tier policing.
”With the rolling anti-Israel marches in London, for instance, the police have acted very in another way. While doing their utmost to facilitate the liberty of the marchers to protest – even while a lot of them shout genocidal slogans and delay clearly racist signs – they’ve stopped counter-protesters going anywhere near the marches … , ” he said.
These incidents are, says Timothy, a part of a broader pattern of disconnect and downright contempt from the ruling class to peculiar British people, and the “arrogance and intolerance of ideology”.
“Ordinary persons are arrested for asking questions and speaking their minds. The police – and even the courts – are taking partisan positions, treating people in another way on the premise of their ethnicity and their beliefs and yes, bringing about two-tier justice,” he said.
“The state shouldn’t be only refusing to hearken to what the general public wants and expects, but very deliberately doing the alternative – often in secret, often lying about it, and in defiance of the essential democratic premise that the authority of political power can only derive from popular consent. And the response to dissenters is to crush them.”
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