When Irish eyes are spying HotAir

Back in May I posted about their new and improved hate crime legislation, then winding its way through their version of a legislature. What they were proposing to codify was terrifying to an American, but to an Irishman, a country that was still soaked in blood from a fight for their own freedom, to even contemplate something as authoritarian and restrictive?

Madness.

&Currently wending its way through the Oireachtas (Oireachtas Éireann, is the bicameral parliament of Ireland) are updates to sections of their Prohibition of Incitment to Hatred Act 1989. As there were no innerwebs or social media in 1989 they felt they needed a new, improved version. They came up with a doozy.

&Genocide
The proposed law will also make it an offence to deny or trivialise genocide. It will define a hate crime as any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim, or any other person, to have been motivated by prejudice.

Such prejudice can be based on a person s age, disability, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender.

via hotair.com

I know there are some libertarians and conservatives in Eire because I follow them on YouTube. What they must think of all this I can’t imagine.