So my understanding is that the British can’t properly sequester their juries and don’t allow any reporting on certain trials or is it all trials during the duration?
Um, why?
We had Court TV here for years (I know it doesn’t exist anymore.) and TV cameras are allowed in many US jurisdictions though not the USSC (I also happen to agree with that one.).
However anyone with a cell phone asking someone coming out of the court house about the case could be arrested and jailed which is pretty much what happened, yes?
I was banned from a largely European forum over this case. Many of the posters were wishing bodily harm on Robinson in prison. They were outraged that I called them the same type of Europeans that would think nothing of throwing people in camps and executing their opposition in the 30’s and 40’s then after the war would cry that they were the “good Germans” when they were ultimately defeated.
I am amazed at how cowed Europe has become. We did them no favors by sheltering them under the nuclear umbrella when it comes to self-preservation.
Mind sharing the web address for that Europeon forum that banned you? I’d like to give it a shot at getting banned, too!
My understanding is it is only CERTAIN trails. They’ve justified these options in the name of “protecting the integrity of the trial”. I call BS. This gives them the option to have a sham trial in secret, either for or against the defendant.
What happened to Tommy:
* Reported published facts outside courthouse during sentencing
* Was charged with one crime
* Was dragged into a secret hearing and is convicted of a different charge
* Did not have his own attorney present
* The same judge had him arrested, convicted him, sentenced him
* Then placed a gag order on his arrest
This is what I expect of N. Korea, China, Iran, etc...NOT THE UK.
The contortions that the UK media are going through to justify this is disgusting. Again we have media collusion to report a consistent theme, that the “far right” trouble-maker broke the law and this was all done correctly. Those that hate Tommy think it is all just fine, they’re unable to comprehend unjust laws.
The real problem is that they have nothing that limits the types of laws the government can enact. They come up with some BS reasons for needed secret trials, make it law, and the lemmings on the left believe if it is law it must be ok. Every totalitarian government has laws, it doesn’t make them just.
These people are evil.
They do publication bans here in Canada too, following the old British tradition.
However, since most of our major cities are near the US border, there were several high-profile court cases that were media-gagged in Canada, but people could get around by simply watching the cable feed from the non-gagged American channels in adjacent cities (Vancouver-Seattle, Sarnia-Detroit, Toronto-Buffalo, etc.)
“I was banned from a largely European forum over this case. Many of the posters were wishing bodily harm on Robinson in prison.”
They’re the face of the EUSSR. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Reddit - where calls to violence are AOK if you’re of the right stripe.
“They were outraged that I called them the same type of Europeans that would think nothing of throwing people in camps and executing their opposition in the 30’s and 40’s then after the war would cry that they were the “good Germans” when they were ultimately defeated.”
They’re outraged that you would speak the truth.