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This needs crowds to go out and break ‘the law’ en masse. Kill by overload.

See Leo Kearse — https://youtu.be/IA1p8jAp5ew?si=jsMWab0Vv61CgZD0

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I wonder will children and teenagers fall under the law, after all children say the most hurty things don't they? Will they be imprisoned for telling Mummy and Daddy they hate them because they have had something taken away, will their teachers tell on them when they call each other names?

Oh dear I think the Courts of Countries who introduce such pathetic wide legislation must expect to be overflowing with cases, and the jails will have to let out all the murderers, etc to make way for the naughty, naughty people

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That's a very good point. If I recall the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland is 12 (10 in England). If I wasn't so desperately horrified by the prospect of seeing my people tear into each other with the conviction of visceral hatred that characterized the 16th and 17th Centuries, and which we saw in the sectarian troubles, the 1st of Aprl 2024 would be the ultimate popcorn moment.

Sitting in our hill Farmhouse in the Northumberland Fells, looking north to the land of my birth, I feel like I'm seeing a train wreck in slow motion, desperately hammering on a thick, armoured glass window to tell them to stop but they cannot hear me.

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