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As Theodore Dalrymple has noted, the Scottish National Party are nationalists and socialists: they are National Socialists.
In fact, the ties of the SNP to Nazism run all the way back to its founding. Founding member and second chairman, Andrew Dewar Gibb, frequently quoted Hitler in speeches, and although he backed Churchill when war was declared, said that he “made no secret of my distinct Fascist leanings”. Gibb was replaced by William Power, who argued against the “overthrow of Hitlerism”. Arthur Donaldson, elected chairman of the SNP in 1957, was imprisoned during the War as a potential collaborator, after weapons, Fascist literature and a letter to a Nazi agent were discovered in a raid.
All of this history provides an alarming backdrop to the SNP of today, which is rapidly sliding into “all within the state” nationalist socialism. Worst, the SNP is also moving to implement “nothing against the state” with its proposed “hate crime” laws, which will criminalise pubic utterances which the state disapproves, including comedy, music and theatre.
Even dinner table conversations will be subject to prosecution.
“Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law,” reports the Times.
Orlando Figes’ essential history of private life in the Soviet Union is titled The Whisperers, because that is what such state surveillance reduced people to. Private conversations were reduced to whispers, because no one could be sure that informers weren’t listening in: informants who whispered in the ears of the secret police.
Such conversations were previously protected under the Public Order Act 1986, which includes a “dwelling defense” that shields conversations that take place in private homes from being prosecuted, however that would be removed under the new law.
The new bill would add an additional crime of “stirring up hate” against a protected group by “behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, or communicating threatening or abusive material to another person,” as well as the crime of possessing “inflammatory material.”
Critics have argued that the vague term “stirring up hate” could be broadly interpreted and could lead to people like JK Rowling facing criminal charges and up to seven years in prison for expressing views about transgender issues.
It also has dire implications for comedy and freedom of speech, given that anyone could choose to take offense to anything and complain that they have experienced “hate.”
In Stasiland East Germany, it’s estimated that one in six people were Stasi informers.
This is the future that inevitably awaits Scotland if the SNP gets its way. Anyone could be an informer; the wrong word, said anywhere, could bring down the wrath of the police.
The proposed laws in Scotland are also an alarming marriage of the SNP’s historical fascism with the new religious fascism trying to subdue the Western world.
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said journalists, writers and theater directors could also be dragged into the courts if their work is deemed to have stirred up “prejudice.”
To get an idea of Yousaf’s mentality, he previously gave a speech to the Scottish Parliament in which he complained that the vast majority of senior positions in Scottish authorities were filled by white people.
Demographically, Scotland is 96% white.
Hamza is a former spokesperson for Islamic Relief, an organisation proscribed by Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bangladesh for its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, also noted by the German government. HSBC banking severed ties with the group over concerns of funding terrorism. Its director was forced to resign earlier this year over shocking anti-Semitic remarks.
Islamic groups are pressuring the United Nations to make blasphemy a crime under international law. Hamza appears to be trying to do the same by stealth in Scotland.
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