The game is rigged and the UK has decided it is an accomplice to crimes against humanity.
They are an active participant, taking pleasure in it. This prosecution, and what it has shown of their character, being so full of hate for those protesting genocide, had given lie to the labour party's bullshit.
Always has been.
A bunch of the Labour top team are in the "Labour Friends of Israel" group. Starmer is in it, Streeting is in it. As is anybody else with a chance, because anyone else is in the "antisemite" group, and not allowed to do anything.
Don't expect this to change. Farage or the Tories wouldn't change it either.
Us and the septics set Israel up. It's our little project, and we can't do much apart from voting Green (who are now also smeared as antisemites and run by fundamentalist Muslims, despite being run by a gay Jew). Even then the US would prop them up forever. As long as oil is a thing, they need Israel to project power on the Middle East.
The UK has historically always been the villain
This is not new for the UK. They always pretended that they were on the side of law
I realize this is the UK, where their judicial system is still rooted in the authority of the crown, and not the people, but in any civilized country, putting one charge to trial and sentencing them for another is not justice.
You're right about the substance, but are you saying that most of the EU, Canada, Australia, New zealand are not civilized?
I'm not aware of that happening in any of those places, but if the shoe fits.
No it's not, but all those places are monarchies and derive their law ultimately from the authority from a crown
canada is supposed to only be connected symbolically. We even gave them a fuckload of canada geese as a thinly veiled fuck you
Well, the EU is not a monarchy, and Canada/Australia/NZ have been distancing themselves from the UK, so maybe not exactly what I was talking about, but I still hold that this is not the action of a fair and just system.
The EU isn't a monarchy but the OP meant that there's still a number of constitutional monarchies in the union.
Also Canada and Australia aren't really the best examples here. Speaking as a Canadian, we've been actually increasing our ties to the UK as Americans continue their assault on our economy and continue to insult our sovereignty.
Regarding the genocide, we have banned exports to Israel for anything that can be used to murder Palestinians, but the loopholes are so large that it's basically meaningless and our government refuses to close them
The king should intervene
Yeah this is actually insane. DO NOT LET THIS GO.
Ok, I won't.
Absurd argument dismissing basically all context as "irrelevant" such as they have the right to stop genocidal weapon shipments.
The fact that that is an option for the judge is insane. That a judge can just be like, "I literally don't give a shit about this topic. In fact it's illegal for you to mention it, regardless of the relevance."
Yep and this happens in a lot of different court cases like you see it often in average criminal trials where the judge throws out information and bans it due to "irrelevance" when it obviously is very relevant.
What is the check and balance mechanism for this? Judges can't act arbitrarily - they need to adhere to a standard I imagine
You're assuming Britain has genuine Rule Of Law rather than the Law being a tool to enforce the will of a few, a tall assumption.
This from the same judge who tried to hold their lawyer in contempt and had it thrown out by a higher court in the span of, like, a day?
Indeed. judge "Justice Johnson" is the one doing all these wildly draconian moves to get Palestine Action convicted as terrorists. ~~His name is straight out of a comic book~~
Just in case you weren't aware (and I'm not missing anything), judges in the UK are given the title of Justice in a way which admittedly does make it look like their first name
That makes more sense. Figured it was their real name because of the capitalization
Reporting restrictions also barred media from revealing that the defendants had been prohibited from explaining the motivations for their involvement in the raid to jurors.
Signs of a healthy legal system and society.
Death to england
I mean they already doing this to themselves. Nothing but Ls since Brexit. If it wasn't for London's grip on elite marketplaces the country would be collapsing already.
Nothing but Ls since Thatcher.
Convicted for one crime and sentenced for another? Sounds like freedom and democracy!
It's the UK lol, it's never been for those things
And the muppets over there claim they live in a country with Rule Of Law...
It's difficult to believe that this is legal and won't be thrown out by a higher court on appeal.
Depends how far the rot goes.
This has to have been a politically motivated act. Influence occurring behind the scenes. What if that extends to appeals or the high court?
If you have to hide significant evidence from the jury, that's a pretty good indication you're doing something wrong.
Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch. The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system. UK streets have CCTV everywhere. UK libel laws are extreme. The state-owned media defends pedophiles and transphobes, while the private media focuses on gossip and lies rather than reporting on the news (on top of also defending transphobes and pedophiles, of course).
It's time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.
Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch.
No.
The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system.
Yes.
UK streets have CCTV everywhere.
It's not the CCTV you want to worry about. The CCTV is overwritten regularly and typically goes nowhere. It's the internet-connected stuff you wanted to worry about, and the blanket surveillance by Google and meta. Carrying a smartphone and worrying about CCTV while you post pictures of yourself where LLMs can scrape them is utterly irrational.
It’s time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.
No, just a half-police state. But at least you tend not to get murdered by the police for being black in charge of a vehicle in the UK, and the healthcare is free.
This, though, this is AWFUL and they went OUT OF THEIR WAY to deny these people justice. If you deny the defendants the right to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, you have denied them justice.
So you're just going to pretend that the house of lords don't exist?
The House of Lords appointment process is bizarre. Parties sell the seats to political donors, the church still seats lords and the monarch has influence but not control over the process. They also just reformed out the last hereditary peers. Its not entirely democratic but not that monarchist either. Its probably best described as an oligarchist institution imo.
B I R T H S T R I K E
UK citizens need to stand up to the UK government with a simple message: do what we fucking say or we will march straight off a demographic cliff. No reproduction without representation. No reproduction while the government supports the bombing of children elsewhere.
So many people can’t even change their shopping habits to make more ethical choices. There’s no way a sizeable population is going to forego passing on their DNA just to send a message.
As a teen, I figured I’d adopt kids when I got older. The amount of people who were dead-set on “b-b-but my genetic lineage!” was startling. As I’ve aged through my 20s and now my 30s, I’ve seen them stick true to their word and have their own babies, even with the world circling down the drain. The biological call to reproduce seems to override a lot of other matters.
Now consider how hard it is to get people to quit something without a biological imperative, like shopping on Amazon…
Anyway, I admire your initiative. I just can’t imagine people participating en masse in a protest that involves forfeiting something so dear and intimate to them as their choice to reproduce.
Too long a time lag to achieve anything.
You're just a right wing psy op to repress the birth of future left leaning voters! /s (I got inspired by recent comments I've seen)
But it's an interesting idea that could royally screw with a country if followed through. But I think it has abysmal chances of actually happening. Choosing to not have kids when a couple is both willing and able is an incredibly large sacrifice to those that want kids. And you wouldn't see if such a strike worked until 9 months later (or a not earlier since there wouldn't be as many pregnancy scans).
That's not normal...
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