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December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — U.K. police have launched an Orwellian re-education program that encourages people to report concerns that loved ones are “developing extremist views” — which it fails to define — and “being filled with hate.”
“It can be hard to know what to do if you’re worried someone close is expressing extreme views or hatred, which could lead to them harming themselves or others. Working with other organisations, the police protect vulnerable people from being exploited by extremists through a Home Office programme called Prevent,” states the program’s ACT Early website, which was launched in Nov. 2020.
“Act early and tell us your concerns in confidence. You won’t be wasting our time and you won’t ruin lives, but you might save them,” the description continues.
It is no exaggeration to describe them as the U.K.’s “thought police.”
The website gives a few real-life examples of people who have been “helped” by the Prevent program, which read like a page out of Orwell’s 1984. Three of the stories describe “intervention” for people with vaguely defined “extreme right-wing” views,
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