The British legal system allows for activists to be sentenced as terrorists without a terrorism charge on the whim of a judge, who kept the jury in the dark about their conviction for criminal damage being repackaged at sentencing, gagged the defendants on presenting motive, gagged the defence on referring to jury equity in closing or from informing the jury that the judge cannot force them to convict, ruled that the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ could not be used in court, ordered the defendants’ own notebooks and writings redacted to remove references to Elbit’s arms supply to Israel, dismissed an abuse of process application which documented meetings between Elbit, Home Office, Attorney General and the Israeli Embassy concerning the prosecutions, remanded three of the four convicted defendants in custody between verdict and sentence without support from the prosecution, and restricted the entire British press for the better part of a year from reporting on his own pre-trial rulings on the terrorism connection, the restrictions on defence motive evidence and that he referred the defence for contempt after his closing address in the first trial, a first in British legal history.
I’m struck by the fact that very few in the politico-media elite of this country seem to care just how much this degree of subservience to and connivance with murderous foreign interests (the United States and its genocidal satellite state) undermines the political legitimacy of the judiciary and the state as a whole. In fact, those who don’t actively support this (too many to count) seem perfectly happy in their complacency.
BREAKING: Danish shipping giant Maersk has been shipping key weapons components, according to a new report published by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Oxfam Denmark.
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@mvinaes Udover det allerede nævnte så er det jo også et collective action problem. Hvis Danmark begynder, så begynder alle andre også. Pludselig har alle atomvåben, og så er tærsklen for at en tosse med kløfingre udsletter verden blevet væsentligt mindre
@veloropa Det er bestemt ikke umuligt. Nu ruller snebolden, og den er svær at stoppe, men den var nok blevet mindre, hvis Israel-holdet (og ejerne) havde gjort noget væsentligt tidligere
@veloropa Demonstranterne kan jo desværre ikke afhjælpe sult i Gaza selv, de må have politikerne til at gøre noget, og det er så det, de prøver. Godt lavet, så længe rytterne ikke udsættes for fare. Historien er uden tvivl 100% på deres side.
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@veloropa 1) Spanien indførte embargo m.m. mod Israel for nogle dage siden, var næppe sket uden protesterne
2) Alle taler nu om det her, Gaza er højt på agendaen, mange har sikkert googlet "Gaza genocide" pga. det her
3) Israel er endnu mere isoleret kulturelt, må fjerne navn osv.
Har lige hørt Christian Friis Bach forsvare, at man ikke lader patienter fra Gaza komme til Danmark. Er der nogen, der har lidt et større fall from grace end ham? Ida Auken måske?
The most insidious myth about Gaza is that the "Hamas-run health ministry" might be exaggerating the death toll. In reality their count is far less than the real full total, but the media has just chosen to ignore all the experts who conclude this:
https://t.co/9kqAOj5odl
@NairoInGreen All these years I've been trying to contract bilharzia to increase my performance. If only I'd known. Would have saved me lots of time #disappointed