Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms by a judge who told them they had “crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic”.
Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on the M25 over four days in November 2022.
Hallam received a five-year sentence on Thursday, while the other four were each sentenced to four years.
The sentences are thought to be the longest sentences even given in the UK for non-violent protest, exceeding those given to the Just Stop Oil protesters Morgan Trowland (three years) and Marcus Decker (two years and seven months) for scaling the Dartford Crossing.
Rapists get less and politicians too.
And rapist politicians.
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Terrorism is brutality toward random or representative members of a group with intent to cause fear and obedience throughout the group.
Guess they should have just thrown paint on some electric cars instead.
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Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.
Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on the M25 over four days in November 2022.
Supporters of the defendants expressed outrage at the sentences, which came after a two-week trial in which Judge Hehir denied them any of the defences in law for causing a public nuisance.
Hehir ruled that the jury should not take into account evidence about climate breakdown, which the defendants wanted to point to as the key motivation behind their actions, and which they said provided them with a reasonable excuse for them.
Michel Forst, the UN’s special rapporteur on environmental defenders, who had attended part of the trial, had criticised the severity of protest laws recently introduced under the former Conservative government.
“Facing several years of imprisonment for taking part in a Zoom call – this is something I have not seen anywhere else and it is shockingly disproportionate.”
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Daniel Shaw was among them? That evil bastard deserves everything he got and more!
Can Labor pardon them?
They can. But no indication they would want to,
oil reserves have been dropping for ages, They are Desprate to keep it flowing, they didnt have to protest at all, they just had to wait.
Where did you pick up that little piece of propaganda?
And why is that propaganda, do you really expect the age of fossil fuels to last indefinitely? just look up Oil reserve statistics.
I expect our ability to extract oil to exceed our ability to deal with the consequences of extracting oil.
Well yeah you expect the corporations and even legislators to prioritize the oil industry, but you need to realize that these entities operate on the economic and logistical Layers of Society Before anything else, They dont just exist to exist, there is a chain of cause and effect that enables such industries and organizational models to exist, and as the entire world has seen currency is not what it use to be, and i expect the microsoft and intel messes to only be the beganing, it seems to me that the particually the chains of economics and logistics are eroding.
If you dont know Microsofts security provider for their business brand of windows crippled a huge chunk of the world economy with a untested update, and intel produced a chip with a insane falure rate that cripled online stuff.
I bet if you look around with a critical eye i expect you will see a lot of shrinking standrds of living, currencies inflating, government intervention that seems more designed to realocate funds to the very people writing laws, everything good seemingly getting overflown with overly emotional raticals(be the left or right) the the very frameworks we see as normal and desired for literally upholding societies as a whole seem to be degrading.
And governments printing money will only make the disintegration move faster, forcing your workers to move faster will only make the disintegration move faster, Making people angery and emotional will only make the disintegration move faster.
really the only solution is a temporary one, and that allocating the management to Iether some Blockchain technology(which they wont do becuase such tech undermines all Legacy establishments.) dumb AIs, or a lobotomized true AI.
The reason its only tenperary is becuase much of how a government operates is subject to exponential growth over time, it simply gets to big to handle, to many numbers that need to be added just right to make the diffrence between another day or total collapse. AI would only expand that, who knows how much it would tho.
