Free Tommy

[Theland]

https://youtu.be/6eB52Y7Zva8

There is not doubt Tommy is a political prisoner.
The support he is getting cant be ignored.
Now it is protests, next it will be violence.
People have reached breaking point.
Do you agree?

[Old_Geezer]

Not all of it.
But I'd not rule out his supporters getting violent.

[THECORBYLOON]

Where is your evidence there was any political involvement?

[anneasquith]

Next it will be violence , really?

[Mamyalynne]

I have reached breaking point.

[Zacs-Master]

Yerr free the Luton 1. Innit.

[Peter Pedant]

// But I'd not rule out his supporters getting violent.//
this is to be expected - unavoidable and excusable according to some of the usual suspects on AB.

they have been violent already .... so no surprise there

Ihave to ask - what do you mean by the term political prisoner ? he was sent back to the slammer for breaking an undertaking to a judge ...nothing political about that - just stoopid

[ichkeria]

Perhaps not that stupid. It’s the only way he can get attention.

[Peter Pedant]

// I have reached breaking point.//

too early my love - on the cards, we have a Tommy thread everyday for the next thirteen months
oh frabjous joy ! kaloo- kallay !

just like Brexit....

[Peter Pedant]

// Yerr free the Luton 1. Innit.//

yeah stick Yaxley up your jacksie - err or someone elses jacksy. eek !

[Postdog]

No doubt he is a political prisoner! Nah, he's just a very naughty silly boy who has got what he deserves.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Anyone who knows about Robinson's interactions with the police over many years will have noted the degree of zeal Plod has shown in the pursuit of the victim/suspect or whatever.

Some of us may compare that ardour with their seeming indifference to other crimes.

[Zacs-Master]

Anyone who knows Theland can spot when he’s on one of his TiC let’s see what reaction I can get wind- ups from a million miles away.

[kvalidir]

He is a convict guilty of contempt of court not a political prisoner, he jeopardised the outcome of a very important case which could have seen guilty persons going free.
You can and must ignore attempts at mob rule or the rule of law disintegrates.
Yes it will probably be violence (again) next, in which case arrest people and charge them accordingly.
Many people bot supporters and opponents have indeed reached breaking point.
No.

[Peter Pedant]

I dont see what is political about breaking a judges order ....
twice
breaking it once is pretty stoopid

does this mean Pete Mannafort - trump minion - who has just been imprisoned - in the land of the free of course - is a political prisoner
( broke bail and repeatedly interfered with witnesses but not in the true trump manner)

[vetuste_ennemi]

//he jeopardised the outcome of a very important case which could have seen guilty persons going free//

Not obvious how he did that at the end of the trials, but, if the case was that important, why were the same crimes- gang rape etc - which had been known about by police, schools, welfare services, Labour councillors and fasses feministes partout for ten years[i - tolerated in Rotherham for so long before they were shamed into action by the Norfolk investigation?

Who has offended the [i]spirit] of the law more - Robinson or those others?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Here's a point of law which will appeal to pedants everywhere:

"It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted'.

That's blackhead or something.

Here's another point of law - different jurist, but equally appealing to the same set:

"it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not".

That was Morson? Caiaphas?or something.

[Peter Pedant]

"It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted'.

"it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not".

Oh I like, fiat justicia ruant coela 1765 - one of Blackstones pals R v Wilkes

and what is wrong wiv
tender unto Caesar what is caesars ?

and all four have nothing to do with interfering with cases having been warned not to ....

but still i t makes a welcome change from the usual guff we are getting about Tommy
Tommy-snot I call it .... Tommy rot or something

[vetuste_ennemi]

I readily concede the judicial point you're arguing on Robinson's imprisonment.

Do you understand the moral point I'm trying to make?

Please reply in (preferably) Latin - or in other language of your choice. With the hope that English won't be one of them.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The Blackstone principle,of course, is a metaphor, not a legal prescription.

Reductio ad absurdum innit. 10, then why not 100, or a thousand.

Prosecute nobody - no innocent man suffers injustice.

Different motto other side of coin.

Innit?

[Theland]

Tommy did not break any law. He reported what was already in the public domain. But he had embarrassed the authorities so he had to be silenced.