Tommy Robinson Cleared.

[Khandro]

The charges against activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson were dropped today (Tuesday) after a judge at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court found that a police order banning him from a protest in London was unlawful.

After which he said; “The point I want people to understand, I’ve just said I’ve won. Have we won? Do we have freedom? For the last six months I’ve been banned from entering my capital city, while jihadists have taken over our capital city, week in week out with the grace of the police allowing them to. I’ve had my restrictions, my right to a family life, I even went to court to ask whether I could take my children to the Christmas lights turn-on and I was refused that opportunity.

“For the last six months I’ve had to go to a Muslim police officer and ask permission to come into my own capital city, of which one of the meetings was to interview a member of Parliament. That Muslim police officer refused that request. That is a police state, that is not freedom. The judge today stood on the side of truth, but I have been in these politicised buildings too many times."

All true, but would andy-hughes agree?

 

[Canary42]

And yet another thread for the xenophobes and islamophobes to trot out their usual bile.

 

Yawn !

 

 

[Buenchico]

A full and varied c.v., I think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)

[retrocop]

Khandro,

I am a little bemused as to why exactly you bother or care what Andy Hughes opines about this case. His views about Robinson are well known on this site and he is never slow in coming forward and lecturing us about the merits of UK law and due process blah blah. Well here it is seen to work in Mr Robinson's favour so Mr Hughes views are largely irrelevant and he will just have to suck it up just as many of us do when the law appeaers to be capricious and works in favour of serious miscreants that we believe should be banged up but are presented with contrary views from Mr Hughes. The Law works both ways. Like it or lump it.

[tomus42]

//Robinson has been convicted for multiple crimes involving violence, stalking, financial and immigration fraud, drug possession, public order offences, and contempt of court//

Yep, the law does work both ways.

[Ellipsis]

Police paperwork fail. Justice denied, on both sides ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7l3zy7z3no

Tommy Robinson case collapses over police paperwork

A senior Met Police officer who signed the dispersal order had previously told Westminster Magistrates' Court he had used the wrong date.

On Tuesday, District Judge Daniel Sternberg ruled there was no case to answer.

[retrocop]

                                                       

              //Robinson has been convicted for multiple crimes involving violence, stalking, financial and immigration fraud, drug possession, public order offences, and contempt of court//

 

No doubt someone will crop up and tell us that the law does not work on assumptions and what may be. Previous drug convictions and contempt should not apply for future intent to attend a protest meeting.                                 

[douglas9401]

Mr Hughes only manifests if inverted commas are used around "Tommy Robinson".☺

[naomi24]

Khandro, what a pity you've blemished this with your final irrelevant sentence. 

[Untitled]

why is he so upset about the police officer being a muslim?

[Khandro]

naomi//Khandro, what a pity you've blemished this with your final irrelevant sentence.//

This site is for asking questions not making statements.

I had to finish somehow with a question mark (I also like winding up andy-hughes a bit). 😄 

[Khandro]

untitled //why is he so upset about the police officer being a muslim?//

Possibly for the same reason he had excrement put in his food by Muslims when he was purposely incarcerated among them in prison. They don't look very kindly on him. 

[ichkeria]

I hope however that you don't imagine Andy Hughes somehow thinks alone on this matter. Robinson is a grubby little racist thug and it saddens me that respectable people would stand up for him. If most other people donned the mantle of put-upon victimhood that TR does they'd rightly be condemned. Probably by many of the same people.

[naomi24]

Ichkeria, I would hope the way he was treated saddens you.  Even 'grubby little thugs' deserve fair play.

[10ClarionSt]

How do people think that the British way of life, and traditions, should be preserved and expressed? What are British traditions? What is the British way of life? If TR could clearly tell us why he behaves like he does, we might have some insight into his reasoning. Not understanding. Just insight. Wot? No need.He's just a racist thug? Hey ho!

[Khandro]

10 c //He's just a racist thug?//

He would seem to have ample grounds for not being too enamoured with the Muslim population of the UK. I don't think he has much to say about other races (not that Muslims are a race anyway).

As to being a "thug"; when he was a lad he got into punch-ups at football matches just like thousands of other young men. I knew the scene well, as a I lived for a while close to a first division football ground. 

Those boys I would suggest are living normal lives amongst us today and no one calls them thugs, but for Tommy it never goes away. 

[david small]

Hear Hear Khandro.

[ToraToraTora]

Right at the top of this thread, canary cannot bring himself to even acknowledge the issue here. Is it any wonder that the sane among us feel that EW like canary support TROP?

[ichkeria]

"Ichkeria, I would hope the way he was treated saddens you"

I don't condone rough treatment for anyone, but for a lot of folk consideration of this starts at chapter two, not at the beginning of the story.

[ichkeria]

"for Tommy it never goes away"

Because he chooses to make a spectacle of himself, flout laws, abuse people in public and then moan when he's called out for it. I've seen his racist tweets on twitter before he deleted them: as I am sure many have. That is the real TR.

[naomi24]

Ichkeria, whichever way you look at it the treatment he received was shameful.