43 pointsby hackandthink7 hours ago7 comments
  • A1kmm6 hours ago
    It looks like the original speech to the jury that won this case is published online here: https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-imp... - definitely worth a read.
    • tim3332 hours ago
      He makes a good argument for not guilty.
  • jjgreen6 hours ago
    An interesting comment by Craig Murray on the related Filton case:

    This is an extraordinary new legal strategy by which the sentencing for ordinary criminal charges may be radically increased if the judge, and the judge alone, decides there is a terrorist link post verdict. The jury has no say on whether there is a terrorist connection or not, and the judges hide from the jury the possibility of this happening at all.

    But the public are not stupid and do not live under a rock. The jury sent a note in the second Filton case to the judge Patrick Field asking him whether there would be sentencing under “terrorist connection”. Field replied to the jury that this was “not your concern”.

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/08/of-judges-ju...

    • Maken6 hours ago
      Can anyone familiar with British law explain this? Can a judge really change a sentence after the trial? Isn't adding charges and aggravating circumstances the job of the prosecutor, not the judge?
      • jjgreen3 hours ago
        The usual rules don't apply when terrorism is called: The UK has free speech, except terrorism, the UK has a jury-based rule of law, except terrorism, ... you get the idea.
  • _menelaus3 hours ago
    Criticism of Zionism must be extirpated by any means necessary.
  • Chris20486 hours ago
    Not sure if I can trust this blog, looking at another article linked from that one:

        Palestine Action was a legal organisation.
        Nearly a year later, the government of Keir Starmer declared it a
        terrorist group – the first time in British history that a non-violent
        direct action organisation has been proscribed.
    
    -- https://substack.com/home/post/p-184498793

    AFAIK, they rammed their van through a front shutter, without knowing who might be on the other side; and as police tried to arrest them, one of them hit a female police officer in the back/spine with a sledgehammer.

    Doesn't sound non-violent to me..

    • bbg24016 hours ago
      Cook has long been aligned with those standing against the Western powers. Often for good, but equally as often to spread Russian disinformation and narratives.
  • metalman3 hours ago
    the British state lost the plot some time ago, where once they were capable of making all of there major decisions in public choosing one thing that is strait forward and implimentable, to the inevitable outcomes that have followed a path useing "emergency" and "special" powers for illegal purposes in the service of foriegn interests. It is very heartening to see that the basic British virtues of bieng educated in logic, reason and the ability to describe and discuss the intents and actions of various partys is still present in the general population, but we can take it as a given that the government will try to create a seperate judicial branch for desegnated "terrorists" and there defendors.
  • josefritzishere3 hours ago
    The West is in moral collapse. Stripped of moral authority it lays bare the lie of colonialism and extraction.
    • tim3332 hours ago
      I think The West may be like democracy - the worst system apart from all the other ones?
  • bbg24016 hours ago
    Is this the same Jonathan Cook who is ostensibly an agitator spouting Russian talking points?

    I suppose we'll be linking to The Duran next.

    • samrusan hour ago
      So if i disagree with him on that i must disagree with him on this too? Thats disengenuous
    • Georgelemental3 hours ago
      Yes, he is an evil Eurasian agent. I hear he's a close collaborator with Goldstein. The Party said so, so it must be true
    • tim3332 hours ago
      He does seem to have some questionable blog posts like

      >If Putin is a war criminal, then Madeleine Albright was no less of one https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2022-03-25/putin-war-criminal-...

    • drivingmenuts6 hours ago
      What does half of an 80's (and onward) English pop band have to do with English justice?