Hamza convicted, Griffin cleared
FTB | 07.02.2006 13:17
A pre-emptive strike before the usual suspects start ranting about this proving the legal system is corrupt and racist
First up, they were charged with different offences — inciting murder as opposed to inciting hatred, so comparing the two at all is a bit daft. But as I'm sure you all will anyway, let's remember that they were two different cases with two different sets of evidence heard by two different judges in two different courts at two different ends of the country and ruled on by two different juries.
Then there's the fact the Griffin was not cleared on all charges and faces a retrial, just as Hamza was not convicted on all charges.
I'm sure none of this will stop the usual suspects preaching happily to the converted and accusing anyone who disagrees with them of being a racist troll who works for MI6, but I thought it was worth a try anyway.
And before I go, reflect on this: if you think it's acceptable to preach violence in the streets, then you cannot be picky about who is allowed to and who isn't.
Then there's the fact the Griffin was not cleared on all charges and faces a retrial, just as Hamza was not convicted on all charges.
I'm sure none of this will stop the usual suspects preaching happily to the converted and accusing anyone who disagrees with them of being a racist troll who works for MI6, but I thought it was worth a try anyway.
And before I go, reflect on this: if you think it's acceptable to preach violence in the streets, then you cannot be picky about who is allowed to and who isn't.
FTB
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Don't Bush and Blair incite hatred and violence?
07.02.2006 14:40
Paul O'Hanlon
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Too quick
07.02.2006 14:49
Brian
Information Useful to a Terrorist
07.02.2006 14:58
Danny
Sleepwalking into a World War- is that what anyone wishes for?
07.02.2006 15:24
Or perhaps you want to suggest that those people supposedly behind the phony torture pictures in The Mirror, publicised at the SELF-SAME-TIME as a real batch of torture photos (unshown, of course) were in the news, were NOT engaged in a 'poisoning the well' operation on behalf of the state?
The legal system is predictable, which is why it is the legal system we have. If it didn't serve its masters, it would be changed.
Anyway, all those people in Britain who visibly and loudly spout on about unfocused and aggressive political acts, whether seemingly from the left or right, or muslim or christian, are actually coralled and controlled by the state. This is hardly a suprise. Street fighting between 'the left' and 'the right' brought Hitler to power, but Hitler as a person, and Hitler as a thinker, was a long way removed from the 'thick heads' that made all the noise, and advocated all the random violence.
The BNP and Hamza are DIFFERENT means to the SAME end.
Those people that argue against the BNP claiming that they fight an IMMEDIATE fascist danger are a joke. Those people that argue against Hamza, claiming that they fight an IMMEDIATE extremist muslim danger are a joke.
Both operations are intended as distractions for those that could otherwise be using their energies to fight the real and growing danger, and also as a source of propaganda for the general public.
The street fighters of pre-Nazi Germany were NOT the people that burnt the world a few years later, but they did unwittingly help bring those people to power.
For god's sake people, a world war benefits no-one, and yet people are dumb enough to be fooled by crap like the state manipulation of idiot hotheads to sleep walk into one.
twilight
The power of propaganda
07.02.2006 15:28
Even if they only read Indymedia they wouldn't be. Would they?
Fudge Dread
welcome back!
07.02.2006 16:37
The Newswire is Dead! Long Live the Promoted Newswire!
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