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how dare he besmirch the good name of the royal courts who stripped away rights from the british public to protest genocide
Just to be clear.
Court do not make laws. Parliament dose. At best they interpret laws. And even then only when questionable interpretation or contradictory laws exist.
Parliament created the laws. The met enforced them. CPS decide if they go to court. From there only a jury has any nullification rights. Judges etc are required to rule based on the multiple laws created.
"its not my fault i shot someone, it was my job!"
-the police
How many protesters accused of supporting PA. Have actually been to court so far.
Honest question. As so for I've not seen any in the news. But may have missed a few.
I have seem the police and CPS release a lot soon after arrest. Makeing me wonder if the CPS is confident on the courts accepting the proscription.
I can see lawyers using both Starmers case during Blares government and ECHR free speech requirements to challenge the validity of the law.
PS you really do not want to go back to a time when Judges acted on their own political motives.
That opens up the court system to a fuck more injustice then it dose justice. We already see way to much prejudicial sentencing and interpretation of evidence. Historical claims womens dressed in a way that encouraged rape. Current Valuing of policemans statements over non police and racial prejudice is valuation of evidence.
Start adding an expectation for judges to judge the moral validity of laws. And it is very unlikely to go in a positive direction.
According to this report by Cray Murray, the judge and courts were not impartial, and are likely responsible for the Palestine Action being outlawed https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/arch ives/2025/07/we-accept-of-course-that-it-is-draconian-and-deliberately-so/
Their judges have made a number of decisions ensuring guilty verdicts of those accused for protesting. Climate, environmental, and anti genocide so far.
One of which forbade the accused from telling their motivation after high profile acquittals on protesters they were tring to imprison for a decade or more.
The courts of the uk are not bystanders they are active belligerants in taking away the ancient rights of English Common Law.
The English had freedom of expression to a large degree centuries before the rest of the continent. Banned books were openly sold for instance. They were allowed to criticize their leaders to a higher degree.