Britain’s Most Dangerous Criminals (According to Lord Hermer)
In response to the Southport unrest last summer, the Government cracked down heavily on people who were alleged to have stirred up racial hatred, or intended to do so, through things they had posted online. While it is far from clear that social media posts were a principal cause of the civil disorder last summer – or even that they had any effect on it – this was the narrative that came to be accepted in officialdom, with Sir Keir Starmer insisting that the violence had been “clearly whipped up online”.
Given the dubious causal link between online posts and what happened, and that stirring something up online is surely less serious than participating in actual violence, one might think that any prosecutions for online speech would result in comparatively minor punishments. Under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, for instance, sending “grossly offensive” or “threatening” messages on social media can result in a prison sentence of up to six months, compared to the one-to-three years in prison for violent disorder many rioters received.
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The only people who despise right-wingers are left wing socialists in all 3 main political parties. This is why we need a 4th party to represent these people.
I should have gone to Specsavers as I thought the headline read Britain’s most dangerous criminals (including Lord Hermer). Silly me.
Thanks to Laurie for providing the details of all the other people wrongfully convicted and showing that there are many more affected, not just Lucy Connolly, who is now a household name. I think the moral of the story is to plead not guilty and don’t cave to the threats and intimidation from the police and solicitors, especially if you’ve not been in trouble with the law before, which I’m sure is easier said than done. Mind you, pleading guilty isn’t always a sure-fire way of increasing your chances of getting sent down. Although the system is generally against white men, this always seems to exempt one particular type of white man. This paedo solicitor even gets to stay registered; ”A paedophile lawyer worked for a Government-backed youth charity embroiled in accusations it failed to handle claims of child sexual harassment. Alan Eccles, from Giffnock near Glasgow, was spared jail after pleading guilty to three charges and sentenced to 300 hours of community service at Paisley Sheriff Court last week. He admitted to engaging in grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing conversations about the sexual abuse of children, sharing indecent photos of children and an intimate picture of a woman between October… Read more »
The pleading of guilty or not guilty. I’m pretty sure that the accused would have been warned that they risk being on remand for six months waiting for trial. Or they plead guilty, and be ‘out in a few days’ with a fine or a suspended sentence. I believe that was the inducement, which for otherwise law abiding people with jobs and businesses, must clearly have sounded the better option. Either way, this was a clear manipulation of ‘justice’.
There should be compensation for being held on remand and then found innocent.
There are just so many similar stories indicating that there is something profoundly rotten within the Establishment.
Holding people on remand who presented no threat, was effectively like kidnapping them & then holding them to ransom where a guilty plea was the ransom demanded.
False lord hermer is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous people in the country.
When I was a lad I served a term
As office boy to an Attorney’s firm.
I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
And I polished up the handle of the big front door.
He polished up the handle of the big front door.
I polished up that handle so carefullee
That now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee!
He looks like a thug.
He has the mentality of a football hooligan with none of the charm (or the sense humour).
Or patriotism.
I would be interested to hear how long they were held on remand – if they were.
Requiring a law against stirring up racial hatred shows just how much damage our politicians have done to the harmony of the country.
There is a bad link in the article here:
the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, advised the PM that it would be lawful to charge social media users with stirring up racial hatred
Can someone kindly provide the correct link thanks.
What a Cug Smunt ! Commie Barsteward!
Prof David Betz, Prof of War Studies at Kings College, has been interviewed on several podcasts recently warning that the UK now has all the conditions in place for Civil War, along ethnic/sectarian lines.
The Security Forces will be very well aware of this and will no doubt have been issuing warnings to the Government for some time.
The draconian clampdown following the Southport disturbances (they weren’t riots) simply proves that the Government is terrified of the scenario Mr Betz described and knows that another Islamic terrorist attack with multiple casualties could kick things off. Instead of dealing with the cause, they are still in “keep the lid on” mode by creating what are basically political prisoners as a warning to the white working class.
Hermer or his boss. Either could be deemed to be inflaming the situation.