Too many good people are in prison, being arrested/ sentenced & facing court appearances - because the UK Govt has allowed the Israeli Govt to decide who should be proscribed as terrorists.
Before Trump launched his reckless, stupid WAR, the U.S. had 4 Naval Ports in the Middle East, valued at $4-$8 BILLION to build (each). We now have ZERO Ports, they have been DESTROYED. That's why there have been no shore leave for the navy.
We also had 14 Military bases, now there are 2. Because Iran bombed them to pieces and absconded all assets.
The financial losses alone are estimated to be around a Trillion dollars...and that's all within 6 months.
That's what the Pentagon is hiding
Transcript:
"Okay, thank you, and I want to thank everyone here and who has come this week to support me throughout what has been quite an ordeal.
Firstly, I would like to thank my legal team: the man here, Saghir Hussain; Zafar Iqbal, my solicitor; and last but not least, Lawrence McNulty, who very, very kindly accepted I was taking the speech today and gave me advice on it.
I wanna say this is not my victory; this is all of our victories—for Palestine, for Palestine, but also for democratic rights in this country. We have a government which pursues support for genocide at the very same time as it prosecutes those who are opposed to genocide, whether it's Palestine Action, the Filton 24—or is it 25 now?—and myself.
These prosecutions for terrorism of people who are not terrorists are increasingly being seen through by juries. The judge was not happy. If it had been a judge-only trial, as David Lammy would have liked, I would have been convicted without a doubt. But a jury of 12 men and women decided that I was not a terrorist, and that terrorism is not opposition to genocide in Gaza.
I stood here as a Jewish person and I made it clear to the jury that my opposition to Zionism was because I was Jewish, and that Zionism is in the tradition of the Nazis who persecuted Jews 50, 80 years ago or whatever.
We have to take heart from this, 'cause there are many other people who are still on trial: the Filton 25, the people at Preston, and many others. We have to defend each and every one of them because opposing genocide is not a crime. Supplying arms to Israel to perpetrate a genocide is a crime, and that is the nature of our judicial system: they prosecute the wrong people.
I wanna see David Lammy, Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and the rest of them inside for having helped Israel perpetrate a genocide. We stand on the right side of history; they stand with the Nazis and with all the other dictators of the past. They have no morals; all they know is how much they can make from the sale of arms.
When we heard the Court of Appeal a month ago declare that Palestine Action was a terrorist organisation, she also described Elbit as carrying on a lawful business. If it's a lawful business to manufacture quadcopters to kill children in Gaza, that says everything about our judiciary.
Judge—whatever her name is, Plaschkes—was not happy at all and was considering doing me for contempt of court for telling the jury they had the power to disregard her. The jury nonetheless came out with a verdict in record time, and it was, of course, not guilty—as of course I am not guilty.
They knew very well I wasn't supporting Hamas; I was supporting the Palestinian people in their just struggle against the Zionist occupation.
So let us take heart from what's happened today and let's go forward, and never forget unity is strength. That is what has made us strong. The jury saw throughout a full public gallery, and we have to give the same support to all the defendants who are going through trials at the moment. They are guilty of nothing more than opposing genocide.
So once again, thank you very much, and now I must go and get my car. But if people make some arrangements, I will meet them for a drink afterwards. Okay, thank you. Free Palestine."
So it had zero to do with national security.
They lied and destroyed 1500 jobs and blocked £1.5 billion + of investment to Scotland.
Because they were too childish and couldn’t handle aligning with the snp government.
If you’re not angry yet you should be now.
This is our ally @andyburnham!?! And you are locking up British people for protesting about this abomination?!? Cheap bus fares and a few pence off our electric won't wash this blood off your hands!!
🚨🇬🇧 ANOTHER VICTORY: A British jury refused to convict 7 Palestine Action defendants in the latest Filton 25 trial.
They took direct action against 'israel's' largest private arms manufacturer -Elbit Systems- in Bristol, August 2024.
The British public has spoken 🇵🇸✊🏼
I'm not going to knock Andy Burnham for trying to help those sleeping on the streets. The problem is he doesn't give a fuck about babies and children being slaughtered on the streets of Gaza by his genocidal cunt Israeli friends.
I Belong to Glasgow?
The craven aquiecense of BBC Scotland employees involved in this shithousery of anti-Glasgow, anti-Scotland propaganda is an affront to every decent Scot paying a license fee just to be insulted and gaslighted by the state broadcaster. Shame on you all.
If Glasgow is so violent why is its university campus far, far, safer for your bairns to attend than any university campus in England even Bath or Cambridge? https://t.co/VFWggWdsEm
🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”