Susan Ram

Freelance writer and editor, politically on the Left

[ergopraxis.bsky.social @ergo_praxis]

btw few will appreciate how grimly funny it is that this judge both issued a gagging order so that the filton 4 could not explain their motivation to the jury, and then also sentenced them according to a specific intent provision requiring them to have had a specific motivation

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

🚨 URGENT: support needed at Edgware United Synagogue where peaceful anti-Zionist Jewish people are being arrested for protesting the Israeli Real Estate conference that is happening there today.

[Shabbir Lakha @ShabbirLakha]

Shameful that the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event is not only going ahead, but it is being held in a synagogue. It is not the Palestine movement that is conflating Israel and Jewish people, it is the supporters of Israel’s crimes that are doing that.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Breaking:

At least five people were killed in an israeli terror strike on civilians in Jabalia Camp.

[Susan Ram @SueLaran]

@GyllKing That women are oppressed on the basis of their sex is a fundamental Marxist tenet. Upholding women's sex-based rights is something to which all genuinely progressive people should be committed. There's no contradiction here with the notion of equality.

[Ben Goren @BanGaoRen]

In my opinion only, without asserting it as empirical fact or directing others to share this opinion as fact, Justice Jeremy Johnson appears to have politically perverted the course of justice in the Filton 24 trial, deliberately misled the Jury, & denied defendants a fair trial.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

I$rael strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs on the eve of the potential signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran which reportedly includes Lebanon.

Attacks such as this follow a pattern every time there is a potential deal on the table and this latest bombing appears to be a clear attempt by Netanyahu to scupper any agreement and continue it’s bloody war on Lebanon and keep him out of jail.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

They were acquitted on all charges until the State forced a rigged retrial that lied to the jury.

This wasn't justice. It was the death of it in Britain.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire.

But 9 years on, there is still no justice.

9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings.

We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.

[Olivier Salerno @OlivierSalerno]

Veille du G7 à Nice : Macron déroule le tapis rouge à l'ultra-nationaliste Narendra Modi. Au menu : vente de Rafales, co-développement technologique et recherches sur la "souveraineté numérique" en collaboration avec un gouvernement suprémaciste.
Ciotti est ravi.
#Nice06

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

@AngelicaDevine_ It hasn’t. You grew your hair and bought some hooker clothes.

[Jane, Empress of the Known Universe (not GP)🏳️‍🌈 @blablafishcakes]

@AngelicaDevine_ Your biology has not changed at all, mate. You grew your hair, watched way too much porn, put on some porny outfit, and some make-up. You're still 100% a man.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

A fundamental principle being lost here - is that if you are charged with terrorism - you can defend yourself by explaining why you are not.

As the Filton 4 were never charged or found guilty of terrorism - the judge who sentenced them as terrorists -has denied them this right.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

9 years ago today

NEVER forget

Remembering all those lost and impacted by Grenfell...

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

No spines were shattered at Filton. The officer walked unaided from A&E. Later a small, hairline fracture to the transverse process (the bony projection that sticks out from the side of a vertebra) was identified & the officer was advised to take paracetamol. Truth matters.

[Susan Ram @SueLaran]

@OlierNina @PDeepDive https://t.co/ngDUyX2pKj

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four.

They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent.

Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine.

But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway.

Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided.

The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action.

By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet.

Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway.

The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful.

If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide.

Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Marching against the far right in Sheffield today.

This is the way we marginalise the far right, by mobilising the antiracist majority & showing our unity.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four.

They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent.

Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine.

But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway.

Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided.

The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action.

By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet.

Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway.

The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful.

If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide.

Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.

[Susan Ram @SueLaran]

@Martina Huge hugs, Martina, for speaking out XXXX

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Thanks for nothing, Infantino…