Friday, July 2, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Robin Shepherd: Anti-Semitic juries in the UK may start decriminalising crimes committed against Israeli interests - '...What we have here is yet another example of how the hysterical campaign against the state of Israel is not merely resulting in gross injustice against the Middle East's only western-style democracy, it is undermining western-style democracy at home. Bigotry does not merely cause pain and suffering to its victims, it degrades its perpetrators from within. The rule of law itself is now under threat in Great Britain, and judges and juries are applauding as it goes.'
But yet, the same judge sentenced a man to jail for decapitating a statue of Margaret Thatcher:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2779597.stm
Go figure.
PS - do read the BBC article. The judge's words are priceless particularly in relation to the other crime.