Posted on 07/05/2019 6:08:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber
British independent journalist Tommy Robinson has been found guilty of contempt of court for a second time over livestreaming outside a 2018 Pakistani grooming gang trial in Leeds.
The trial had been under a reporting restriction, but Robinsons lawyers argued that information was not available on the courts website at the time and that he attempted to find out if there was a ban four times before going to the courthouse.
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Thanks...was unaware of the term.
Nuke it from orbit - after you get Tommy Robinson and other real Brits out...
President Trump has shown us that it must be...
Tommy will not live long I fear. His memory will outlive him and his spirit might well r-establish a Free England.
On Twitter, I follow a very good member named “Based Poland”.
He was born in Malmo, Sweden, of Polish immigrant parents. Due to the insanity of Sweden’s muslim invasion, he moved back to his ancestral Poland.
He keeps in touch with the nonsense occurring in Western Europe and, today, was tweeting about Robinson’s trial.
It was positively sickening how many British citizens, mostly males, were castigating Robinson and defending the Pakistani Rapists as if they were the victims. Which made me suspect just what race and religion the Anti-Robinson “Brits” were.
The entire situation is absolutely lunacy. The UK is definitely no longer a free nation.
Very good summation.
I joined his supporters outside the court on Thursday. Couldn’t make it Friday.
The judge’s words were pretty heavy, I think they could hand down 2-3 years. They don’t mean him to come out alive/with any capacity.
The UK government granted freedom from prosecution for IRA terrorists and murderers, but still goes after servicemen who served in Northern Ireland. ‘tells you something about where the loyalties of these politicians lays. Lunacy reigns indeed.
This is what will happen to patriots in the US if leftists take over our federal government. Leftists will just make up laws and us the power of government to ‘convict’ patriots and scare others into no longer fighting. This is already happening in states like california and new tork.
JoMa
I grew up in the UK. It sickens me. What is insulting is this facade of “protecting victims and maintaining the integrity of trials” by making the trials secret. I’m unaware of any other western nation that does this.
The subjective speech laws that are subjectively applied to those the State doesn’t want to hear from is NOT justice. How on earth do you split hairs to determine whom is guilty of “aggressively filming”? ...whatever the hell that means. Who do they think they’re convincing? It’s so transparently absurd.
I have a cousin that is a police officer in the UK. I asked about some of the speech laws, pointing out that they’re draconian. His response was that “nobody really does jail time for breaking them”. Ah, I see, they’re there to mainly intimidate people to shut up if the police come knocking, got it. That he didn’t seem to understand this was the intent was a bit shocking. It all violates the heart of what ‘free speech’ is all about.
The only question left, has ANYONE, EVER, been imprisoned before like this for these actions? Even if you can, by the letter of the (pathetically written) law, show that something was violated, can anyone honestly look at the video of that day in Leeds and argue that it warrants jail time? The names were already public, so how egregious can it really be to ask one of them about their verdict (not on court premises)? That’s insane.
Thanks for being able to have ‘boots on the ground’ - I tried to align a business trip with one of his MEP rallies, but didn’t work out. Something has to give though...this can’t continue - it’s tyranny.
Completely agree.
I’ve heard about Malmo. Sweden is also screwed it seems. These tyrannical fools in Europe seem to have no clue about what they’re causing...to the point of being deliberate, it’s the only explanation. There’s something really evil behind it all.
‘S all true... :^)
Fascist Britain where individual freedoms come at the whim of the government.
Without the 1st amendment and guns we would be the UK.
Yes. Sad.
Exactly.
Nah, the media there report on trials all the time. He checked to make sure that trial had no restrictions posted for it online or at the court (there were none) and then he proceeded to live-stream himself reading an already published BBC article about the case while standing in the public street. Nothing he did was a contempt of court and previous judges have agreed that nothing he said could have prejudiced the trial. They are now trying to jail him for the non-crime of “causing anxiety” to the gang rapists by asking them how they felt about their sentence as they walked into court (they all responded with violent sexual expletives against his family).
The previous judges in Tommy's case even said that nothing he said (by reading the already published BBC article) could have jeopardized the trial.
It is 100% political. Government pushed for this second trial, and had the verdict already determined. You can now add the UK to the list of countries that keep political prisoners, along with places like China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey.
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