The Great Socrates

@BanGaoRen As an example, juries are not told if a defendant is a repeat offender, or of their criminal record if they have one. If found guilty the judge will bring these up and consider them at sentencing under an aggravated factor and may increase the tariff sentencingcouncil.org.uk/guidelines/off…

In my opinion only, without asserting it as empirical fact or directing others to share this opinion as fact, Justice Jeremy Johnson appears to have politically perverted the course of justice in the Filton 24 trial, deliberately misled the Jury, & denied defendants a fair trial.

@Shambles151 Reading this may explain it. sentencingcouncil.org.uk/guidelines/off…

A fundamental principle being lost here - is that if you are charged with terrorism - you can defend yourself by explaining why you are not. As the Filton 4 were never charged or found guilty of terrorism - the judge who sentenced them as terrorists -has denied them this right.

@TonyGreenstein You're wrong. sentencingcouncil.org.uk/guidelines/off…

@find_truth4all you may call yourself the great Socrates but you are a peabrain the question of whether there was a terrorist connection was a matter of fact which is for the jury to decide - it's no wonder that after 2 years just 63 people follow you In short you are a moron

@Shambles151 No dirt trick, aggravating factors are applied at sentencing if a guilty verdict is given. It's similar to Previous Convictions, the jury are not told but the judge will apply them at sentencing.

The result of the dirty trick that Judge Johnson's was allowed to play on the defendants, jury, the legal profession & anyone who still believes in justice - is that judges are dishonest & can't be trusted. Please RT this until this travesty of justice is rectified. Thank you

@YisraelChaiAdam They have to serve 2/3 of their sentence before being eligible for parole after an assessment is carried out. If they remained active or in contact with the group parole would most likely be denied.

Just like to remind everyone whilst you’re enjoying the sun this weekend, these 4 are starting their 6 year sentences in a dark dingy cell. And it’s fucking hilarious. Thank you.

@redrumlisa If Reform gets elected they will come out of prison into a different country.

Prison time is prison time and is difficult for everyone - these 4 will come out to NGO jobs, book contracts and paid speakers engagement. Thats not what happens to working class people in prison they come out to homelessness, stigma & prejudice, high percentage go on to commit other crimes. Dont feel sorry for these.

@TonyGreenstein The jury's role is limited to deciding guilt on the charged offences. Aggravating factors like motivation, intent details, harm caused, or statutory enhancements (terrorist connection, hate crime aggravation, etc.) are assessed by the judge post-conviction.

Having refused to recuse himself because of bias, because he held he wasn't biased, Injustice Johnson then handed out savage prison sentences. He manipulated and rigged the trial, keeping the jury in the dark about the 'terrorist' connection of the offences, based on the fictitious claim that they were trying to influence the British government. Johnson is a legal savage in a long line of judges whose only instinct is the protection of the British state and its support for the genocidal state of Israel. We have to right to get these sentences overturned and the trial declared unfair. This is British 'justice', red in tooth and claw

@GreenJJNews That's a perverse way of looking at the judicial system. Are you suggesting the judge should tell the jury the sentence he will impose if they find the defendant(s) guilty, before the jury deliberates?

These four protesters, are going to be convicted on terrorist offences. That's very serious for their futures, but also for the justice system in our country. If people can admit liability for criminal activity, but still be found guilty as terrorists, it's deeply concerning.

@GoodLawProject Stick to the truth: The jury’s sole role is to decide whether the defendant(s) are guilty or not guilty based on the evidence presented in court and the judge’s directions on the law. Sentencing is entirely a matter for the judge and is irrelevant to the jury’s verdict.

A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage. This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.

@kennardmatt Sentencing has nothing to do with the jury, it's the jury's task to determine guilty or not guilty. It's not their job to be influenced by anything outside of that.

The jury that convicted them had no idea this would be introduced at sentencing Sick and lawless

@ZackPolanski Upon release, they must serve an additional year on licence and will be subject to strict terrorism notification requirements for up to 15 years. This legally binds them to register all personal details—including bank accounts, phone numbers, and travel plans—with the police. 😏

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

@jeremycorbyn I hope it was worth it: Upon release, they will be subject to strict terrorism notification requirements for up to 15 years. This legally binds them to register all personal details—including bank accounts, phone numbers, and travel plans—with the police.

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of. Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time. A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

@HeidiBachram With a terrorism connection: Offenders become "terrorist prisoners." They are not eligible for automatic early release at the halfway point. Instead:The Secretary of State refers the case to the Parole Board at the two-thirds point of the sentence.

Judge Johnson just handed down sentences for the Palestine Action criminals: Charlotte Head - 6 years Ellie Kamio - 6 years Fatima Zeinab - 5 years 8 months Samuel Corner - 8 years 🔥

@Heccles94 His 'wealth' isn't cash in a vault, it's mostly the market value of companies that millions of people invest in and work for. Confiscating shares doesn't magically print trillions; it just vaporises the value and the jobs overnight.

Would you agree with confiscating all of Elon Musks trillion pounds in order to fix world hunger, provide the world with clean drinking water, and reforesting the Amazon?

@bourscheid Imagine you own a house worth $500,000.That's your wealth: The house could be sold for that much (in theory). But you don't have $500,000 in cash right now. You can't go to the store and spend the house. To get actual spending money, you'd have to sell it or borrow against it

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.

@JChimirie66677 Thank you for saying what a lot of people would avoid saying and articulating in a pragmatic objective manner

The Ideology Doesn't Stop at the Border. It Never Did. In Herat this week, Taliban security forces opened fire on protesters demonstrating against mandatory hijab orders. A fourteen-year-old boy, who had come to bring his brother home, was killed. Dozens were arrested. Door-to-door raids are now underway across the city, Taliban fighters stopping residents at checkpoints and searching their phones for images of women whose faces appeared in protest footage. Women have stopped leaving their homes. The injured are being treated in secret because those taken to hospital are arrested. This is the country from which tens of thousands of young men have crossed the Channel to reach Britain. This is the law they grew up under. This is the culture that formed them. In February, the Taliban published a sixty-page penal code signed by the supreme leader and distributed to courts across Afghanistan. It permits men to beat their wives provided the violence does not cause broken bones or open wounds. The maximum sentence for serious injury is fifteen days. To pursue a complaint, a woman must present her wounds in person to a male judge, fully veiled, accompanied by a male guardian. In the majority of domestic violence cases that guardian is the husband who committed the beating. A woman who flees to her parents without permission faces three months in prison. The family members who shelter her face the same. Justice is not merely difficult. It is structurally impossible by design. This is not a distant aberration. This is the enacted law of a country whose nationals have entered Britain in their thousands. Five of the seven men charged with forty grooming offences in Norwich arrived from Afghanistan by small boat. Two hundred and ninety-four Afghan nationals entered Britain on Ukrainian visas. Tens of thousands more have crossed the Channel since 2018, the overwhelming majority unvetted young men whose formation occurred under a legal and cultural framework that treats women as property, criminalises their autonomy and punishes any attempt at escape. The ideology does not stop at the border. It never has. Cultural attitudes are not checked at Dover alongside passports. The men who leave Afghanistan carry with them the values of a society where women cannot speak loudly inside their own homes, cannot leave without permission, cannot seek protection from the men who harm them, and can now be legally beaten provided the bones remain intact. Those values do not dissolve on contact with British soil. They are dispersed into British communities, British streets, British schools, with the full knowledge and active facilitation of a government that has read the same reports, been briefed by the same security services, and chosen to continue regardless. Sharia law as practised under the Taliban would endorse every element of what is happening in Herat. The mandatory covering. The punishment for non-compliance. The subordination of women to male authority in every domain of life. Britain already has Sharia councils operating alongside civil law. Already has communities where women's movement is restricted by cultural expectation. Already has areas where the state modifies its own behaviour for fear of communal reaction. The distance between Herat and certain British postcodes is shorter than the political class will admit. The government's response to all of this is to announce faster removal of social media posts about it. The terror watchdog raises the connection between mass migration and national security and receives silence. The boats continue. The dispersals continue. Somewhere in Britain tonight a woman is living under the same attitudes that are hunting women through the streets of Herat. The posts describing it will be removed more quickly next time. The government calls concern about the connection far right. They are legalising fear in Afghanistan. Britain is importing it. That is the story nobody in power will name.

@vxylily Septum piercing is a red flag.

MEN: be brutally honest, what really makes a woman instantly UNATTRACTIVE

@protodanielle If he's a man why do you keep referring to him as *she* by doing so you become part of the problem.

🚨 CHILD ABUSE IMAGES. Kairah Kelly, 25, a trans-woman from Middlesbrough, was caught with indecent images of children being sexually abused — including a six-year-old boy — plus other prohibited photos of kids. Police found the vile material during a raid on her home. She pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images and possessing a prohibited image of a child. She walked free from court. This is a man who spent over £20,000 trying to turn himself into a Kim Kardashian lookalike. A man with access to children’s images. The judge even called the offences “particularly horrible” — children abused, filmed, and thrown away like rubbish. Yet no prison. This system is completely broken.

@_FarmercistP_ The wife’s enabling (bringing massive calorie loads to a bedridden man) absolutely sabotages treatment and needs addressing.

This level of obesity should be classified as a disability The Doctor got tired of managing him because he can't stop eating.

@Heccles94 It's a very assumption that the refugee can't be a racist.

I would rather live next door to a refugee than a racist thug.