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Samizdata quote of the day – Silence for some, speculation for others So let us name the principle actually in operation, because it is not sub judice. Sub judice is a rule, and rules apply evenly or they are not rules. The principle in operation is that speculation is dangerous when it is inconvenient and wholesome when it is useful. Ann’s case, where the early inferences pointed somewhere the official mind preferred not to look, attracted the full apparatus of hush. Suffolk, where the inference flattered the approved threat picture, was narrated by a Secretary of State before the evidence was in, and un-narrated by nobody when the evidence declined to appear. The Tates, indefensible in the court of public opinion, may be tried there nightly without a murmur. That is not the law of contempt. That is malinformation doctrine wearing the law of contempt as a disguise, truth and silence alike deployed by reference to harm as the managers define it.
– Gawain Towler, discussing a now debunked terrorism claim, the Tate brothers arrest, and Ann Widdicombe’s murder… and the very selective approach taken by the state in the pursuit of justice.
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Trenchantly-put.
IIRC, one of the most-serious cases against Tommy Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is that his publicly-identifying certain defendants in one case jeopardized their rights to a fair trial in a different case – feel free to correct me if I am wrong, as reporting about this is a bit difficult to follow from this side of the pond. And for this terrible offence, he was jailed for a significant term. Yet I fail to see the difference between what he did, and what has been done every day this week in the UK press in relation to the Tate brothers – about whom, I now know far more than I ever wanted to, and all thanks to the busy beavers of Grub Street, apparently actively aided-and-abetted by most of the UK criminal justice system. A more on-point example of two-tier justice would be diffucult to formulate.
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