The Colston Four

[sir baconface]

I suppose the people with lesser involvement who accepted a police caution or "restorative justice" may now be seeking to have their records expunged, even though they did admit criminal damage.

How?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Its worked amazing well for the Tories today has this. Talk should be about Johnson being mauled at PMQ's yesterday or the fact that if you are in the UK and reading this your living standards will plummet this year and you face an increase in utility bills of £1200 on average - that doesn't include the other cost rises resulting from 6-7% rate of inflation. Or maybe the humiliating mauling from the Standards Commissioner today would be worth discussion however no instead its the distraction working perfectly - " look over there !! Crusties toppling the statue thats part of our history and getting away with it " - that is being repeated all day ad nauseum by MP's - political commentators and their pliant press

 

[Fordyboy46]

Expect Winston Churchill's statue to be toppled in the not too distant future, now they have a free run

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

This view is echoed by a number of Tory MP's today - a fascistic cult wanting to fix the judicial system to favour them and only them - disgusting

Is his name cockney rhyming slang?

 

[BobKowalski]

Expect Winston Churchill's statue to be toppled in the not too distant future, now they have a free run

Just remembered we had people taking up positions around statues to ‘defend them’. Weird fuckers.

Fun times.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Just remembered we had people taking up positions around statues to ‘defend them’. Weird fuckers.

Fun times.

Have they considered using decoys?

 

[Octavian]

Just remembered we had people taking up positions around statues to ‘defend them’. Weird fuckers.

Fun times.

Those targeting statues of war heroes are weirder.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Yet 8 police officers where injured.

And a police station attacked in the following protests which got out of hand, police vans set alight. If it was on the end of Kaz's Street would she be so tolerant?

 

[lazerblue]

Interesting. Oddly enough it still appears in English dictionaries and isn’t noted as archaic.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/lud

i rest my case M'lud

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

The decision of that jury was all a bit too American for my liking. Not a good sign of modern times

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

i rest my case

Yeah, no **** says that either.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The decision of that jury was all a bit too American for my liking. Not a good sign of modern times

Clive Ponting?

 

[meltonblue]

Few more examples here too -

Jurors see the bigger picture: activists who were cleared in court

Cases have included climate, environment, human rights and anti-war protests where damage to property was not denied

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Those targeting statues of war heroes are weirder.

Twice decorated for bravery. He received the Iron Cross Second Class in 1914 and the Iron Cross First Class in 1918, an honour rarely given to a lance corporal...

 

[Octavian]

Twice decorated for bravery. He received the Iron Cross Second Class in 1914 and the Iron Cross First Class in 1918, an honour rarely given to a lance corporal...

Are you trying to equate our war heroes to Hitler?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Are you trying to equate our war heroes to Hitler?

No I'm saying that it is a loaded term, and used Godwin's law to demonstrate that.

No one would dispute that he was a hero during the first world war.

Try this example.

https://www.thejc.com/news/world/my-lithuanian-grandfather-jonas-noreika-was-a-hero-a-collaborator-and-a-murderer-1.473223

 

[i kne albert davy]

Clive Ponting?

Didn't he spill the beans about us sinking that poor unarmed pleasure steamer off the Falkland Islands, All seemed a bit Arthur Owens to me.

 

[KPXBLN]

Hopefully this (correct) verdict will be a warning to the Tories. The more they seek to criminalise protest and put their thumbs blatantly on the scales in the criminal justice system, the more chance that (some) juries will interpret their role in political terms and return verdicts the government doesn’t like.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Didn't he spill the beans about us sinking that poor unarmed pleasure steamer off the Falkland Islands, All seemed a bit Arthur Owens to me.

For Scotland?

Renowned Belgrano whistleblower Clive Ponting joins the SNP

MEMBERS of the SNP in the Scottish Borders are being invited to attend a talk to be given by one of the party’s newest members, renowned…

www.thenational.scot

 

[Octavian]

No I'm saying that it is a loaded term, and used Godwin's law to demonstrate that.

No one would dispute that he was a hero during the first world war.

Try this example.

https://www.thejc.com/news/world/my-lithuanian-grandfather-jonas-noreika-was-a-hero-a-collaborator-and-a-murderer-1.473223

Those that fought in wars or lead us are all innocent until proven otherwise and if you can prove otherwise about specific monuments then have civilised discussion and a poll about what to do.

What we cannot and shouldn’t stand for is vigilante protestors deciding to attack/graffiti war memorials like this little **** - https://www.joe.co.uk/amp/news/protestor-union-flag-cenotaph-257875

I couldn’t really care less about Colston going in the river but it’s the wrong way to do it. What I care about is the Cenotaph and Churchill’s statue and people we should be proud of having their statues and moments graffiti’d or damaged.