Prosecutors adopt shocking new 'thought crime' standard
Members of the Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom – the equivalent of the U.S. Justice Department – must follow a new “thought crime” standard based on the alleged victim’s personal “perception.”
In other words, prosecutors must regard a crime a being motivated by hate if the person “perceives” himself to be of a protected class and “perceives” that the accused was motivated by hate.
The concept was featured by George Orwell in his book “1984,” which described a thoughtcrime as a politically unorthodox belief, such as “doubts that contradict” the government’s prescribed belief system.
In the U.K., however, it appears to be reality....