Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson's dirty work is not yet complete
The British legal system has done this for years! It is not unpicedented, you did it in Northern Ireland. The teachers in Catholic schools (mainly men I believe) were "interned" sometimes for years! I listen to a podcast & one of the presenters didn't see his father for 4 years, because he was interned!
Yes. Judge exercising discretion not a wilful abuse of anything. Even if he's wrong, he's just wrong so the accusation of misconduct in public office is just more delusion.
Try and be a little open to your own mistakes rather than throwing accusations. You wrote that the perpetrators and the victims were filming - so you started the confusion and then get outraged when you're not understood. Filming disgusting behaviour is disgusting, whoever does it, whether Israelis or Palestinians, but the well known examples are from the Palestinian attack where they filmed atrocities, including spitting on a semi naked, unconscious girl they had raped and kidnapped.
I am not an uncritical supporter of Israel but believe the real terrorism comes from the genocidal and hateful wish to eradicate Israel, so evident in the evil rants so common in the responses to the original article. They also show a contempt for democracy and the rule of law. Combined with rabid racism, where have we seen this before?
They call it justice. But watch what it does. A judge who spent his career serving the secret state now sentences people for trying to stop a genocide. The word 'genocide' itself was banned from the courtroom. The jury's own centuries-old right to acquit... banned. The defendants' motives... banned. Two juries still refused to convict on the serious charges. So the state will now sentence them as terrorists anyway, for criminal damage, in a move unprecedented in British legal history. This is not a malfunction of the system. This is the system working exactly as it was designed to work, for those it was designed to work for. The confusion clears the moment you stop asking whether this is just and start asking who it serves. That question answers itself. What we are watching is not a legal process. It is power made visible. Briefly, undeniably, for those willing to look. The only question worth asking now is whether enough people are willing to look.
I'm reading this on Friday, after Judge Johnson sentenced the Palestine Action activists. I was appalled at the way Johnson showed complete contempt of his office by doing the bidding of @Keir_Starmer a Zionist, who answers to @netanyahu and Israel. The UK is becoming a Fascist State and a colony of Israel. This is not a time to be silent. Thank you Mr Cook for an excellent article.
Let’s see a photograph of this judge. We all know what Starmer looks like. In a transparent society we need to know what all other enemies of democracy and the law look like.
Throughout this article you frequently claim that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. The government has taken legal advice on the matter and has not been advised that Israel is doing so. Accordingly, giving assistance to Israel is legal. Elbit’s manufacture and supply of drones to Israel is also legal.
You can parrot genocide as much as you like but doing so does not make it true. Israel is fighting a war against an organisation dedicated to its destruction, an implacable enemy which does not know compromise and is imbued with hatred of Jews. It is not seeking to eliminate the population of Gaza but it would prefer that they go live somewhere else.
Thank you for replying. Your remarks re the ICJ are accurate. I don’t disagree with the ICJ. However, even if Israel has committed war crimes, which I don’t concede, I still assert that Israel has not committed a genocide in Gaza. I am content to wait for the moment when Israel has finally defeated its enemies in Gaza and a definitive analysis of Israel’s conduct of the war can be carried out. Far from committing genocide, most neutral commentators admire Israel’s conduct and denounce claims of genocide as unwarranted hyperbole.
It's difficult to understand how someone who can write English reasonably well as you do, Reginald, should be so deficient in its understanding. What difficulty here for instance: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that ‘at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible’, including ‘the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide and related prohibited acts’ Note the injunction, that the Palestinian population not only may have been subject to genocide but that it is incumbent that they are protected from genocidal acts. So even if you were to disagree with the ICJ's findings, that does not excuse you from culpability and answerability to aiding genocide if it is subsequently confirmed. In addition here is a list of bodies that concur that Israel is guilty of genocide the United Nations (via a special committee and commission of inquiry), the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Even if you remain certain no genocide has been committed, despite this august body of opinion (and what expertise do you possess to be so certain), the simple fact is that Israel has been guilty of innumerable and continuing war crimes, so numerous and so continuous and so blatant and so publicised that the argument in regard to genocide is almost irrelevant. It certainly is an argument that flies well over the heads of the 80,000 innocent civilian dead men, women and including 18,000 or more children, who lie buried in the soil and sand of the Gazan territory, that is if they still have their heads attached to their bodies.
You are free to proffer your opinion but, Reginal Vernon, you are also free to condemn yourself in the eyes of so many reading and contributing here as to the moral vacuum that inhabits your humanity and soul.
The British legal system has done this for years! It is not unpicedented, you did it in Northern Ireland. The teachers in Catholic schools (mainly men I believe) were "interned" sometimes for years! I listen to a podcast & one of the presenters didn't see his father for 4 years, because he was interned!
Yes. Judge exercising discretion not a wilful abuse of anything. Even if he's wrong, he's just wrong so the accusation of misconduct in public office is just more delusion.
Ian,
Try and be a little open to your own mistakes rather than throwing accusations. You wrote that the perpetrators and the victims were filming - so you started the confusion and then get outraged when you're not understood. Filming disgusting behaviour is disgusting, whoever does it, whether Israelis or Palestinians, but the well known examples are from the Palestinian attack where they filmed atrocities, including spitting on a semi naked, unconscious girl they had raped and kidnapped.
I am not an uncritical supporter of Israel but believe the real terrorism comes from the genocidal and hateful wish to eradicate Israel, so evident in the evil rants so common in the responses to the original article. They also show a contempt for democracy and the rule of law. Combined with rabid racism, where have we seen this before?
Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews
Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews
Stopping 'genocide' by crippling a policewoman with a sledge hammer.
Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews
Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews
Can a private prosecution be brought against the government for breaking international law and supporting what they explicitly know is a genocide?
Especially Starmer who was previously DPP; they should lock him up and throw away the key.
Hopefully without a trial beforehand.
I am angered and disgusted by this heinous criminal posing as a court judge. Johnson himself should be behind bars.
Must have nicked a wig.
😂
They call it justice. But watch what it does. A judge who spent his career serving the secret state now sentences people for trying to stop a genocide. The word 'genocide' itself was banned from the courtroom. The jury's own centuries-old right to acquit... banned. The defendants' motives... banned. Two juries still refused to convict on the serious charges. So the state will now sentence them as terrorists anyway, for criminal damage, in a move unprecedented in British legal history. This is not a malfunction of the system. This is the system working exactly as it was designed to work, for those it was designed to work for. The confusion clears the moment you stop asking whether this is just and start asking who it serves. That question answers itself. What we are watching is not a legal process. It is power made visible. Briefly, undeniably, for those willing to look. The only question worth asking now is whether enough people are willing to look.
Right to acquit banned but they did it anyway.
Maybe the question is. What right did Britain have to 'give' Palestine to gangs of Jewish terrorists ?
Remember folk you are all Goyim and Israel has a new settlement in Argentina
Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews
I'm reading this on Friday, after Judge Johnson sentenced the Palestine Action activists. I was appalled at the way Johnson showed complete contempt of his office by doing the bidding of @Keir_Starmer a Zionist, who answers to @netanyahu and Israel. The UK is becoming a Fascist State and a colony of Israel. This is not a time to be silent. Thank you Mr Cook for an excellent article.
Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews
We'll all need Israeli permission soon to write on sub stack.
Let’s see a photograph of this judge. We all know what Starmer looks like. In a transparent society we need to know what all other enemies of democracy and the law look like.
Why?
Throughout this article you frequently claim that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. The government has taken legal advice on the matter and has not been advised that Israel is doing so. Accordingly, giving assistance to Israel is legal. Elbit’s manufacture and supply of drones to Israel is also legal.
You can parrot genocide as much as you like but doing so does not make it true. Israel is fighting a war against an organisation dedicated to its destruction, an implacable enemy which does not know compromise and is imbued with hatred of Jews. It is not seeking to eliminate the population of Gaza but it would prefer that they go live somewhere else.
Thank you for replying. Your remarks re the ICJ are accurate. I don’t disagree with the ICJ. However, even if Israel has committed war crimes, which I don’t concede, I still assert that Israel has not committed a genocide in Gaza. I am content to wait for the moment when Israel has finally defeated its enemies in Gaza and a definitive analysis of Israel’s conduct of the war can be carried out. Far from committing genocide, most neutral commentators admire Israel’s conduct and denounce claims of genocide as unwarranted hyperbole.
It's difficult to understand how someone who can write English reasonably well as you do, Reginald, should be so deficient in its understanding. What difficulty here for instance: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that ‘at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible’, including ‘the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide and related prohibited acts’ Note the injunction, that the Palestinian population not only may have been subject to genocide but that it is incumbent that they are protected from genocidal acts. So even if you were to disagree with the ICJ's findings, that does not excuse you from culpability and answerability to aiding genocide if it is subsequently confirmed. In addition here is a list of bodies that concur that Israel is guilty of genocide the United Nations (via a special committee and commission of inquiry), the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Even if you remain certain no genocide has been committed, despite this august body of opinion (and what expertise do you possess to be so certain), the simple fact is that Israel has been guilty of innumerable and continuing war crimes, so numerous and so continuous and so blatant and so publicised that the argument in regard to genocide is almost irrelevant. It certainly is an argument that flies well over the heads of the 80,000 innocent civilian dead men, women and including 18,000 or more children, who lie buried in the soil and sand of the Gazan territory, that is if they still have their heads attached to their bodies.
You are free to proffer your opinion but, Reginal Vernon, you are also free to condemn yourself in the eyes of so many reading and contributing here as to the moral vacuum that inhabits your humanity and soul.
PS as you have kindly not used an assumed name, I will provide my own full name. John Monro.