A good week for those hoping for an unbiased BBC one day – Far Left TV news presenters being effectively fired – numbers listening to BBC radio falling across the board . Gradually we will win .
Weekend 4 February 2023
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Jury nullification (US/UK), jury equity[1][2] (UK), or a perverse verdict (UK)[3][4] occurs when the jury in a criminal trial gives a not guilty verdict despite a defendant having clearly broken the law. The jury’s reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust,[5][6] that the prosecutor has misapplied the law in the defendant’s case,[7] that the punishment for breaking the law is too harsh, or general frustrations with the criminal justice system. Some juries have also refused to convict due to their own prejudices in favor of the defendant.[8] Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses.[9]
Nullification is not an official part of criminal procedure, but is the logical consequence of two rules governing the systems in which it exists:
Jurors cannot be punished for passing an incorrect verdict.[10]
A defendant who is acquitted can, in many jurisdictions, not be tried a second time for the same offence.[11]
A jury verdict that is contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it. However, if a pattern of acquittals develops in response to repeated attempts to prosecute a particular offence, this can have the de facto effect of invalidating the law. Such a pattern may indicate public opposition to an unwanted legislative enactment. It may also happen that a jury convicts a defendant even if no law was broken, although such a conviction may be overturned on appeal. Nullification can also occur in civil trials,[12] but (unlike in criminal trials) if the jury renders a not liable verdict that is clearly at odds with the evidence, the judge can issue a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or order a new trial.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
British Common Law – Exposing Its Secrets by William Keyte (2018)
That sounds quite similar to when people tried to use the Magna Carta and the courts laughed at them.
“None of the original 1215 Magna Carta is currently in force as it was repealed, however four clauses of the original charter …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
INVESTIGATION:
Labour’s largest donor, Unite the union, has spent £112m building a hotel and conference centre in Birmingham. But why does Sharon Graham, Unite’s general secretary, believe £30million has gone missing?
For migrants?
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists Paperback – 11 Oct. 2011
Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and subsequently the Bolshevik regime. In a courageous investigation, Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian communists. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, Sutton reveals: the role of Morgan banking executives in funneling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US; the co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces; the intervention by Wall Street sources to free the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose aim was to topple the Russian government; the deals made by major corporations to capture the huge Russian market a decade and a half before the US recognized the Soviet regime; and, the secret sponsoring of Communism by leading businessmen, who publicly championed free enterprise. “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution” traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union. Dispassionately, and with overwhelming documentation, the author details a crucial phase in the establishment of Communist Russia. This classic study – first published in 1974 and part of a key trilogy – is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series include “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler” and a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “1933 Presidential election in the United States”).
I’m still laughing at the incompetence of the US military. That ‘Chinese’ balloon, they waited until it drifted out over the ocean then they shot it down with an expensive heat seeking missile. Now they are scouring the ocean for its remains. Permit me a Nelson Muntz moment: Hah Hah! Got a feeling there may not be any remains to be found. Someone should make a comedy film about this.
Quite how a heat seeking missile would find a balloon with no engines to produce heat is another matter. Then if I know anything about heat-seeking missiles is that when they eventually go bang, and this one did, they tend to ‘frag’ (fragment) anything in the vicinity. Maybe the US Military should have taken up my WW1-based suggestion of dealing with balloons: biplane and an observer with a sharp pointy stick while the balloon was over Montana. Either the stick or a crossbow. Surely the US military could have convinced a private Stearman owner that it was his patriotic duty to help out?
Negative UV they aren’t so simple as just heat seeking, they are fire and forget but there is radar guidance from the aircraft which fired it too.
The balloon was a height beyond which the jet fighter could reach, and bullets can manage a couple of miles.
The bigger question should be why the CCP loving General Milley waited until it had transited the entire country before shooting it down, having actively refused to do so earlier.
You would think the Americans would have learnt the lesson from WW2 when Japan sent balloons up into the jet stream to hit USA. (wiki Wasaburo Oishi)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11716093/BBC-journalist-Laura-Trevelyans-family-apologise-pay-reparations-ancestors-slave-links.html#comments
BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan’s family to donate £100,000 to Grenada as an apology for their aristocratic relatives keeping more than 1,000 slaves on sugar plantations on the Caribbean island.
A BBC correspondent whose ancestors kept slaves in Grenada says her family hopes it is ‘setting an example’ by apologising and paying reparations.
Laura Trevelyan’s aristocratic relatives had more than 1,000 slaves across six sugar plantations on the Caribbean island in the 19th century.
The BBC journalist, based in New York, said her family is apologising ‘for the role our ancestors played in enslavement’.
They will now hand over £100,000 to set up a community fund for economic development on the island.
Ms Trevelyan, 54, said seven family members will also travel to Grenada this month to issue a public apology.
Harry, I have just read about this amazing story in the Telegraph. I checked quite a number of the comments and found that there was not one to see that had any approval whatsoever. I was a clear case of ‘comments could not be any worse’.
To those still paying the license fee all I can say is shame on you. You are indirectly paying for braindead woke virtue-signalers like Trevelyan to enable herself to elevate her position among the woke religion’s lunatic following.
Vomit inducing fakeness from Beeboids. Read the comments in the Telegraph. I can’t find polite words to describe how I feel about it so I’ll stop here and go for a walk.