Posted on 08/09/2024 8:45:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”.
District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot made them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications.
The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to disorder in the city.
Cameron Armstrong, 18, from Belfast, was charged with rioting in the Connswater area of east Belfast, which saw “violent disorder, petrol bombs, fireworks and different projectiles thrown at police and extensive damage caused to property”, the court heard. ‘Periphery of the scene’
Armstrong’s solicitor said that his client had never come to the attention of the police before, adding that while he admitted he was on the “periphery” of the scene, he denied being involved in any of the disorder.
When asked by the judge what he was doing at the scene, the defence solicitor told the court that Armstrong had gone to the area “to have a look”, adding that he had left when petrol bombs were thrown.
Judge Rafferty said: “He doesn’t have to throw a petrol bomb or brick to be involved in disorder, if he’s present at disorder.”
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Stay in your homes and shut up!
> Where is King Charles in this? <
The UK monarch reigns, but does not rule. That’s the saying.
But then I must ask, what good is a monarch if he just stands by and does nothing in times like these?
Another Freeper mentioned that the monarchy is valuable as a tourist attraction. So maybe that’s it. The royal family can wave, smile, and sell souvenirs as their country goes to hell.
Thats bs. Witnesses are not criminals.
....... How the heck is this even Constitutional?????
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2084 is alive and well in the UK
The UK police will go after the low-hanging fruit. So leave the screaming Muslims alone. But that granny who stops to see what’s happening on her way to work - lock that filthy troublemaker up!
The Administrative State must be dismantled.
- Liz Truss, Tuesday, April 16, 2024
“Covid lock-downs in 2020. Two years later, prohibited from sharing opinions on social media. Prohibited from silently praying outside abortion clinics. Prohibited from watching a riot in progress.”
It’s not like there were mass riots or anything when they stole our liberty and freedoms from US then. This is simply an ongoing result of said theft while our so called reps and the snooze orgs take turns sitting on each others thumbs.
Surely all that rotating has got to be making them dizzy with delight.
You forgot prohibiting fair and honest elections.
Britain has fallen. Pray for the people. 🙏
Why is there any presumption it would be constitutional? What does “constitutional” even mean in the context?
“ Does he think people don’t see the selective enforcement of the common law?”
He wants people to see that very thing.
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Marines. Army would be the occupation force.
How is this any different than communist China or North Korea?
It ain’t. Britain as we knew it is dead.
Britain will be a caliphate within a decade.
Where is Stalin when we need him? Is he still dead?
Love your screen name…
Great series, still waiting for the sequel before they are all gone…
The UK doesn’t have an actual written constitution.
Maybe King Charles could step up and demand that his kingdom be restored to its rightful people and stop being used as a dumping ground for third world rejects. (Perhaps he could find a better way to phrase it).
I believe he still holds some political powers should he decide to exercise them?
What’s happening is beyond understanding for me.
> Maybe King Charles could step up and demand that his kingdom be restored to its rightful people… <
The British monarch has considerable “reserve powers”. But I don’t believe they’ve been used since the early 1700s. Anyway, Charles has chosen a side. And it’s the wrong side.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4257509/posts?page=14#14
How would the military handle Russia, Iran and China all at the same time?
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