STStavanger1
Pro4,532 posts
19 Jul 2019, 09:41#5
The case wasn't sealed, just a reporting ban was put in place till after the trail was concluded in order to ensure the defendants received a fair trail.
There is no question to be asked. No matter the crime a person or persons is accused of they are entitled to a fair trial, nationality, religion or ethnicity should have no bearing on this principal, it should be applied to all equally.
Robinson broke the law (again) so will server a prison sentence at her majesty's pleasure.
19 Jul 2019, 10:12#6
Tommy Robinson is in prison for contempt of court. As Draad has said, he “challenged” the justice system and he got off second best.
Robinson did something really stupid, IMO. He has a big following and does have a valid cause, if you could put it that way, but it is really a catch 22 both ways. For him and the justice system.
For the justice system...... they could have let it fly and “ignored” his “challenge”, which would have left them red faced. Or they could have jailed him, which has turned him into a martyr. Either way, he kind of won but he is not going to have a smooth time in jail.
I find his behaviour really strange because he has a valid cause, IMO and he has not made any new friends. His base supports him and they will keep on supporting him but this stunt will not have won him any new supporters. The fact that the BBC keep on referring to him as the founder of the English Defence League does not help either.
They themselves have featured a documentary of how and why he broke ranks with the EDL but they seem to have forgotten that. They also seem to have forgotten how he actually reached out to moderate Muslims and spent a lot of time and even became friends with a moderate Imam. They, the BBC, made a documentary of that as well. I saw both documentaries. I cannot understand why he did this. It was silly.
Julian Asange is a different kettle of fish. He is also behind bars on a technicality. He is also being a “hard arse” at a time when he could have been a hero. The USA’s case against him is weak, IMO. They say that he has assisted Chelsea Manning in stealing military secrets but that is debatable. It is actually quite a long argument but to cut it short, he should have offered to work with the USA after Trump got into the WH. It is the Obama administration that wants him silent and not the Trump administration.
Assange holds the can opener to the biggest can of worms in the whole Russiagate saga. He is the only one who can answer this question: “Where did he get the info from the DNC servers? Was it from the Russians or from Seth Rich (or someone else within the DNC)? If it was the Russians then it would prove that Meuller was right in saying that the Russians hacked the DNC servers. If it was Rich or someone else from within the DNC, it would prove that the so-called conspiracy theories are not just theories. This, if true, would, of course, poke one more whole in Meuller’s already flimsy report. But.... this would be a massive hole.
The fact is that Bill Binney and co has already proven that the Russians could not have done it which means that they merely need Assange to come clean and say who did it.
IMO, the only reason I can think of why he would not come clean is that maybe it wasn’t Seth Rich who gave him the info and that the real culprit is still alive. He is standing on his principle that he has and would never expose his sources but Seth Rich is dead. Does it therefore really matter? That is why I think that it was either not Seth Rich or it was Seth Rich AND someone else who is still around and who could be endangered.