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.
Israel is destroying every single home in the southern 40 miles of Lebanon.
This is not “targeting Hezbollah strongholds.”
These are Christian villages and Sunni villages and Shia villages where people have lived for centuries.
Why does a child like this have to live the rest of her life without limbs just because an Israeli soldier wanted to have some fun.
It's heartbreaking how all this terrorism goes by without any accountability..
Israeli-British Historian Prof. Avi Shlaim:
‘The mainstream media in Britain completely fails to report the Palestinian narrative about this conflict. It only reports the Israeli narrative with all the lies and all the distortions and all the propaganda.
And the BBC is particularly horrendous in its lack of partiality and objectivity in always giving Israel the benefit of the doubt, in always giving Israeli spokespeople more space time, in not listening to Palestinians.
And also BBC presenters are instructed whenever an interviewee mentions genocide to stop them and say it hasn’t been decided. And I haven’t been interviewed on the BBC once, in the last two and a half years because they know my views and they don’t like my views.
But I insist that Israel is guilty of genocide. And my last book is called Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine.
And in this book there are six pages of quotations from Israeli leaders which are plainly genocidal. So there is no doubt at all that there is both the rhetoric of genocide and also the actual actions on the ground which are genocidal.
So Israel has been conducting a genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.’
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Israel is wiping out village after village in South Lebanon.
Villages older than entire modern states.
Villages that survived centuries of history.
Not military targets.
Civilian homes.
Civilian infrastructure.
Civilian life.
This is what they call a “ceasefire.”
@DropSiteNews Millions of ignorantly bliss Lulu's out there who will completely hand wave away Tucker as a "loon" and refuse to open their eyes and live in reality. We need to ignore these cucked propagandized serfs, stop trying to teach them, and expel the parasite before it's too late
Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on many villages in South Lebanon.
Again.
Only Israel is allowed to use white phosphorus on civilian areas in Lebanon and Palestine — repeatedly, a war crime — and the international community doesn’t even blink.
“If you supply weapons to somebody that is accused of acts of genocide, then you yourself become complicit in those acts as well”
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