Re:I Face Investigation for Terrorism
by throw310822 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:28PM
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> charged with contempt of court, for "jigsaw identification" of a witness in another case, that of Alex Salmond
Worth mentioning a couple of details about that case.
Alex Salmond was the leader of the Scottish independentist party.
Arrested in 2019 with the accusation of 14 instances of sexual abuses from 8 anonymous women.
The subsequent trial cleared him of all charges.
Re:I Face Investigation for Terrorism
by marcus_holmes on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:42PM
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And there's evidence (as Mr Murray documents, which was obviously his "real" crime) that this was all a fit-up by the current SNP leadership to discredit Mr Salmond so that they would be free from criticism from him about the lack of movement on independence and the SNP pivot from independence to culture war issues.
Also, probably, the reason that the SNP leadership are now pushing for jury-less trials for sexual abuse cases.
If true, it's a staggeringly cynical abuse of the Me Too movement, feminism and the wave of popular support for sexual abuse victims.
Re:I Face Investigation for Terrorism
by throw310822 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:40AM
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I am struck by the fact that you can be publicly disgraced while your accusers remain anonymous, and remain such (and I bet suffer no consequence) even after their accusations against you are proven false or irrelevant.
I don't know the details, but when 8 separate individuals accuse you, all without cause, it's hard to believe it's a coincidence.
Re:I Face Investigation for Terrorism
by marcus_holmes on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:05AM
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It wasn't a coincidence, it was a carefully co-ordinated campaign (as Mr Murray documented).
That's roughly it.
The British Establishment (leaders of the main parties, intelligence officials, senior judges, senior police) wanted to make an example of him, because of his persistent exposure of their arbitary persecution of Assange. He was charged with contempt of court, for "jigsaw identification" of a witness in another case, that of Alex Salmond. That charge was prosecuted before a single judge, who was very much a member of "The Establishment", and he got 6 months in the slammer.
It's still not clear which remarks he made on his blog that contributed to jigsaw identification. Maybe it was a commenter on his blog that made the troublesome remark. But apparently other, more-mainstream journalists had been much more explicit, and most of the Scottish political class knew who the witness was from those sources, not from Craig's blog.
Basically, he was fitted-up for loudly espousing Scottish independence.