Posted on 07/18/2018 6:02:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Top judges will today hear a challenge by former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson against his 13-month jail term for contempt of court.
Mr Robinson, real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, was locked up in May after he filmed people involved in a criminal trial and broadcast the footage on social media.
The footage, lasting around an hour, was watched 250,000 times within hours of being posted on Facebook.
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This whole affair has drifted out of Orwellian territory and is now full-blown Kafkaesque.
With a touch of Lewis Carrol.
You have to think, 250,000 views in a n hour means the Brits have a bigger problem than they thought.
Hey, our FOUNDING FATHERS are known as evil White over privilaged, slave owning, land grabbing, tree cutting, userpers on the land of the Native Americans.
The simple fact that this nasty people laid the foundation for a sparsely populated group of colonies to morph into the United States of America is not supposed to be of importance today. CNN will jump all over your ost.
By the way, you are right on the button.
And Tommmy’s just a symptom. The parents whose daughters keep going back to the brothels to get more heroine in exchange for sexual favors will not go away, and they vote.
Yeah, you racist you.
Why was the guy actually jailed for 13 months, with no real trial or defense? I have to assume he violated terms of a suspended sentence or probation under a prior conviction. What was he convicted of? By no means do I suggest his sentence was justified for reporting on the public trial of “South Asian” rapist pimp gangsters — I’m just curious to know the whole story.
Pres. Trump needs to tweet out that Britain is nonfree and that Americans traveling there can be arrested for expressing non-PC views.
Hit ‘em in the old pound sterling.
You assume right. Convicted of filming within the courthouse and broadcasting about the trial. Now the trial was over and they were sentenced, and he was outside the courthouse, but they arrested him him anyway. I think for filming the convicts on their way out.
250K views also means that thousands of people around the world downloaded the video, besides viewing it. That video thus cannot ever be deleted from the internet,no matter how many take-down demands you issue. THAT is what the Brit Establishment are angry about.
I agree.
They arrested him for covering Muslim rape gang trials, sentenced him on the spot denying his request for legal counsel, and threw him in a prison with a large percentage of Muslim criminals.
They gave free legal counsel to Muslim rape gang members after ignoring the issue for years. The Muslim rapists were able to make bond to be free while their trials went on. When in prison, they’re given everything they demand, and known conversion efforts by fundamentalists are ignored.
A few Muslim rapists got light sentences or no sentences, such as the fellow who got off because his wife spoke no English, poor thing, can’t leave her without her husband.
Yet another example of liberals’ misplaced compassion enabling evil. They have to admit to the Muslim rape gangs, but they aggressively prevent discussion of it to protect the reputation of the rapists’ culture. Complain about them on social media, risk arrest and punishment harsher than men who prostituted out 13 year old poor white girls.
There’s one problem raised by this case, but it’s not the one assumed by most on this forum. It’s the right of judges (a long-established common law right) to impose summary convictions with quite severe penalties for contempt of court, without a court hearing. Had the judge merely notified ‘Mr Robinson’ that he would be charged with contempt, and that charge were then pursued in a conventional trial, then the reasons for the penalty, as well as the facts of the case, would be more generally understood. The summary treatment, although entirely legal and a long-established procedure, inevitably invited the widespread misreading of the nature of the offence which duly followed.
It wouldn’t surprise me if, once the dust has settled on this, new legislation is proposed to regularise the traditional common law powers of judges in similar circumstances.
They’ve been arresting him for just about any pretext for the longest time, and he’s using the assumed name to protect his family from harm by Islamonazis. What it all boils down to is, he and his mates dared stand up to them once when they were spitting on British troops returning from Iraq, and since then the authorities been after him to become an informant, and persecuting him without end and depriving him of a normal life. So he’s become an adversary to the rape gangs and Islamonazism in general, a full-time activist, and this has made him the biggest thing to the working class since Robin Hood, and life as a resister isn’t all fun and games.
I think it was his female cousin who was raped by one of those gangs, and police did nothing, starting his crusade.
I agree. This case is frightening.
Why was the guy actually jailed for 13 months, with no real trial or defense?
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See posts 14 and 16.
The police, to continue my analogy, are as clueless as the Sheriff of Nottingham, for much the same reason. They’re making a legend with their high-handed malice. Plenty of other working-class Britons have had their cousins, sisters, daughters raped, purposely addicted and put to work in a brothel. Who do they think they’ll identify with. And the papers? How many times can they cry ‘extremist’ and ‘far right’ before people see through them.
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