Minister Golubeva will order the police to mark hate crimes

The Ministry of Welfare will not submit the Istanbul Convention to the Saeima for ratification, which would radically change the understanding of the family structure and functioning of society established in Latvian laws. The ideology of the LGBT+ community has also failed to criminalize hate speech. But its lobby has now decided to do things differently. If the door is locked they will climb through the window.

The criminalization of hate speech, the incorporation of the concept of gender as a social construct in national legislation and the granting of special privileges to the LGBT+ community are the reasons why Latvia is being pressured to ratify the Istanbul Convention. The real title of this document, "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence", is misleading. In fact, it aims to change the understanding of the natural family as the core of the structure of society. It is therefore necessary to highlight violence against women and to conceal violence against men. And therefore a number of countries, including Latvia, refuse to ratify it. At least for the time being, as long as the LGBT+ lobby does not have a majority in parliament.

The Istanbul Convention will not be advanced

Adviser to the Minister of Welfare Oskars Priede confirms to Neatkarīgā that at present the ministry will not proceed with the ratification of the convention: "There are many other things on the agenda that we are working with - raising the income of seniors, support for families with children, support for people with special needs, etc." It is just a diplomatic pretext so that it should not be openly said that the Istanbul Convention has dangerous and harmful content that may negatively affect Latvian society. However, things don't end with the temporary freezing of the convention, as the same destructive ideas are being promoted in other ways. In the spring, the conservative wing of the Saeima managed to stop the restrictions on freedom of expression led by LGBT+ community lobbyists in the Criminal Law - the criminalization of hate speech. A hate crime would no longer need significant consequences to be considered a crime at all. Now the Minister of the Interior Marija Golubeva has personally taken leadership over this idea.

Golubeva shifts accents to the police

Marija Golubeva's first job as the leader of the ministry was to set up a special working group on the issue of hate crimes, although the Ministry of the Interior had other problems at the time. First of all, the migrant crisis. Now, based on the conclusions of the working group's final report, the Minister has given a number of tasks to the Interior Ministry: “To organize a meeting between the State Police and the Information Center of the Ministry of the Interior in order to agree on the improvements of the criminal records and to find opportunities to make a note that the respective crime has shown signs of a hate crime. In its turn, the State Police College will include the adult non-formal education program “Identification and Investigation of Hate Crimes” in the 2021/2022 plan of the State Police College adult non-formal education program. The State Police will also develop proposals to ensure that police officers specialize in identifying hate crimes. Changes in several regulatory enactments are also planned: amendments to the Law “On Police” regarding the non-discrimination clause, amendments to the legislation on administrative liability for hate speech, as well as the right of law enforcement authorities to obtain retainable data from electronic communications companies within the administrative process, if the process is related to an expression of hatred."

Name-calling will be equated to terrorism

The Minister wants the police to look at any possible offense through the prism of hatred in the future and to take more serious action against offenses that are subjectively recognized as hate crimes. There is no such term as "hate crime" in the Criminal Law, so Minister Golubeva, together with her advisers, has come up with one herself:

"A hate crime is a criminal offense committed in whole or in part because the offender has a prejudice against race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, mobility impairment or mental illness."

It should be emphasized that the ideas of LGBT+ ideologues are currently being promoted not only at the national level, but also at the European Union level. 33 conservative non-governmental organizations are raising alarm about this, including Asociācija Ģimene and Latvijas vīru biedrība, which are currently fighting for the protection of the natural family in the Constitution and collecting signatures to initiate a referendum. At its September session, the European Parliament will vote on equating hate crimes with terrorism, trafficking in human beings, the sexual exploitation of women and children.

There are only two genders

Title of forthcoming resolution: "Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1)."

The purpose of the proposal is to extend the list of crimes in the first paragraph of Article 83 of the EU Treaty to include gender-based violence. The report states that "gender-based violence is rooted in gender stereotypes, heteropatriarchal structures, power asymmetries". It also refers to the Istanbul Convention, in which "gender is defined as ‘the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men’". It is also stated that "LGBTIQ+ persons are also victims of gender-based violence because of their gender, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics".

Another document is being created in the hallways of Europe, which denies the existence of only two sexes and legitimizes gender as a social construct.

In response, NGOs are calling on MEPs to vote against the draft resolution. In turn, the Ministers of Justice, Welfare and Foreign Affairs are asked to ensure that ministry officials, when participating in EU-level working groups, do not support the development of ideological documents and ensure that Latvia's interests are represented at the EU level based on the values ​​defined in the Constitution. It should be reminded that the state protects and supports marriage - the union between a man and a woman.

There are only two sexes: female and male. And children are born only in the union of these two sexes.

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