Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.
Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.
As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.
Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.
🚨 In more than 25 years of working on terrorism cases, I never thought I would see terrorism legislation used in a way that blurs the line between genuine national security concerns and the policing of political expression and protest.
The sentencing of the Filton 4 raises profound questions about the direction of our justice system. Counter-terrorism laws exist to protect the public from serious threats, not to chill political dissent, including direct action protest.
If we are not careful, we risk setting a dangerous precedent, one that many will view as driven not by principle, but by a desire to shield Israel from criticism.
I strongly oppose what happened in this case today.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
Imagine it had happened in Iran!! All hell would have broken loose.
The UN, US, European Union and every Western human rights group would have condemned the “REGIME” for brutality against women, but when it happens in the Netherlands?? https://t.co/MTwS8wWYrW
German Woman:
"You keep claiming that Iran will build an atomic bomb within two weeks, so why do you never mention Israel’s possession of 200 nuclear warheads?"
BREAKING:
Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.
These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.
🇺🇸 An American Al Jazeera anchor: “I dedicate this award to my 270 colleagues who lost their lives in Gaza. The struggle for truth is a sacred struggle for humanity; do not abandon it.”
This story gets so much worse. Apparently this all started because police were called out for a disturbance after her husband broke their tv out of anger after finding out his brother was killed by Israel in Gaza. The husband is Palestinian. When the police were taking him into custody his wife stopped them because she wanted to accompany him and that is when the officer threw her on the ground for “interference.” The couple was cooperative with the police the entire time and yet this is how they were treated.
She delivered the baby prematurely because of the physical trauma on her body but thankfully both she and the baby survived and are in good health. She easily could have miscarried.
This entire police department should be investigated and that officer should be arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
🚨 EUROPE'S TONE ON ISRAEL IS HARDENING FAST
🇫🇮 Finland's Foreign Minister says the EU should expand sanctions against Israel.
Not long ago, such calls were confined to activists and opposition voices.
Now they are coming directly from inside European governments.
The political shield Israel once relied on in Europe is showing visible cracks. 👀🔥
The Israeli army advanced into residential areas and opened fire directly on civilians, forcing families to flee, leaving behind their homes, belongings, and everything they owned in a desperate attempt to survive.
During the displacement, the brother of one of my friends was killed before his eyes. My friend was unable to carry or bury his brother’s body after Israeli soldiers threatened to kill him if he approached it, forcing him to leave and abandon his brother’s body behind.
Israel has committed horrific massacres and crimes against us, leaving behind suffering and tragedies that are beyond words.
BREAKING:
Israel is bombing Gaza’s seaport, deliberately targeting fishermen trying to survive.
It is also striking a coffee shop packed with civilians.
Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza while waging another in Lebanon.
Both funded, armed, and protected by America.
This is extremely shameful.
🇦🇺Australian filmmaker Juliet said:
"I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.
They also used water torture and beatings."
The matter is even more shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this 😭
Los terroristas sionistas israelíes de las FDI matan a un niño palestino de 14 años. Necesitamos que este video se vuelva viral. Compártelo.
#CIJ_ICJ 🇵🇸🌎⚖️
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper publicly interfered with the Palestine Action trial in an Observer article.
Judge Johnson cleared her of any wrongdoing.
Yet that same judge tried to prosecute defence barrister Rajiv Menon KC for reminding jurors they had the legal right to acquit.
The law protects elite politicians while criminalizing the lawyers who challenge them.
If this was a Political Leader from any other country doing this the EU would have sanctioned them and their country into oblivion.
Then they would have tried to drop a bomb on their head as well.
Israel does it, nothing.