How Dare You: U.N. Attacks ‘Severe’ Jail Sentences for Climate Protesters

Breitbart ^ | 21 Nov 2023 | SIMON KENT

[Mr. Mojo]

The UK government was warned Tuesday by the U.N. that handing out long jail sentences to climate protesters could stifle public displays of dissent.

The Just Stop Oil protesters in question caused traffic gridlock after scaling the Dartford Crossing Bridge for almost 40 hours in October last year, as Breitbart News reported.

They were later accused of having “blood on their hands” after two women died in car crashes after being diverted from the bridge after the anti-fossil fuel activists had shut it down.

Eco-extremists in Britain have a history of blocking motorways, junctions, and city centre intersections.

The BBC reports Morgan Trowland, 40, was jailed for three years and Marcus Decker, 34, for two years for causing a public nuisance.

In response to the U.N., the BBC report set out the government maintained the right to protest is a fundamental part of the UK’s democracy but the “law-abiding majority” must be able to go about their daily business.

[piasa]

...Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include the Big Short and Don’t Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund.

The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to ‘disruptive’ activists, including handing almost £1million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the UK...

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Several decades ago a man set off dynamite to remove a tree stump, but also posted warning signs in that area beforehand. A few miles away a farmer was milking a cow, but the guy who was going to blast did not post signs that far away. The cow was frightened by the noise and kicked the farmer, causing an injury. The farmer sued the guy who blasted, but the judge ruled he could not have foreseen that the cow would react in that way. The cow incident was in the US, the climate protest was in the UK, and I don't know if the climate protesters posted warnings. A key difference is that the climate protesters intended to disrupt traffic. Local laws might make a difference.

[muir_redwoods]

20-life works for me

[Eleutheria5]

The cow incident was judged by Common Law doctrine of foreseeability, articulated in an old NY Court of Appeals case, Palsgraf vs. Long Island Railroad, 248 NY 339, decided in 1928. I don’t know if the cow and the dynamite was in New York, but that local high court ruling has been used as precedent in multiple jurisdictions for nearly a century.