Tommy Sheridan is about to be released from the Castle Huntly open prison, on licence, after being found guilty of perjury by the Scottish courts and having served the amount of time he was legally obliged to do. Putting aside my severe doubts about whether he was guilty of the offence or not; considering that the 'News of the World's' employees (Bob Bird) were witnesses at his trial. Are those the same witnesses that are now being investigated for criminal activity and, if not lied in the current investigation, have almost certainly attempted to twist the truth beyond any form of moral recognition?
But, that is not what I want to say at this moment in time. What is an assault on the balance of justice is the court's possible attempt to place a gagging order on him and stop him from speaking or writing in public. The man is a politician and has always maintained that he was 'set up', not only by the 'News of the World' but also by his fellow Scottish Socialist Party members. Now, I'm not a great fan of his politics, but that is not the point. If he was a danger to the public at large then he should not be released. So why the gagging order? If he comes out and says something illegal during his licensed freedom then he can be taken to court for slander or libel but to stop him from making any proclamations seems to me to be a breach of his human rights.
There is something about this case which stinks of corruption and the attempted gagging order to be placed upon Mr. Sheridan seems to me to be an extension of that self same corruption in politics in Scotland. The sooner we get out of this UK backed 'establishment' the better it will be for justice in Scotland.
Update:
Sheridan released and up for it.
But, that is not what I want to say at this moment in time. What is an assault on the balance of justice is the court's possible attempt to place a gagging order on him and stop him from speaking or writing in public. The man is a politician and has always maintained that he was 'set up', not only by the 'News of the World' but also by his fellow Scottish Socialist Party members. Now, I'm not a great fan of his politics, but that is not the point. If he was a danger to the public at large then he should not be released. So why the gagging order? If he comes out and says something illegal during his licensed freedom then he can be taken to court for slander or libel but to stop him from making any proclamations seems to me to be a breach of his human rights.
There is something about this case which stinks of corruption and the attempted gagging order to be placed upon Mr. Sheridan seems to me to be an extension of that self same corruption in politics in Scotland. The sooner we get out of this UK backed 'establishment' the better it will be for justice in Scotland.
Update:
Sheridan released and up for it.
I suppose it's in case he says something that will show up the Leveson inquiry into press corruption as being a talking shop. ( as if we didn't know already). But he could just tell one of his contacts and friends instead which makes the gagging order a bit pointless.
ReplyDeleteWe can't pin the blame on 'the UK backed establishment ' for this one Ged.
100% Scottish. Scottish prison service. Scottish justice secretary. Scottish judiciary.
He would win an appeal at the ECHR but they have a 300,000 case backlog so good luck with that.
I can certainly blame the UK 'BACKED' establishment on this one. The Masonic order has its fingers in many, many pies. Just because it is Scottish law does not mean that the Scottish 'establishment' does not have links with the UK government/Labour/Tory/LibDem/media merry-go-round.
DeleteYou are, of course, right about telling his friends but that is not the point. The point is that the 'establishment' is trying to shut him up; your example being a case in point. It will be interesting to see if they actually gag him.
Either way it's still Scottish officials making the decisions. Either by being influenced by buffs south of the border or not it's still decisions being made here.
ReplyDeleteI can't argue with that. I have no problem with the Masons but when they were taken over by the very people that they were protecting themselves against, very much like the Labour party, I have to see their leaders as the 'enemy'. An enemy which is beginning to bring its big guns together to try and destroy the one chance that we have, in Scotland, of having a democratic system. The above article is just the tip of the iceberg.
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ReplyDeleteYeah if a slate fell,off yer roof youd say it was a UK based plot to undermine Scotland.
Tommy should be gagged just to get him shut the fuck up!
Niko, you are such a cynic. I would have thought, with your supposed left wing credentials, that you would be horrified by this.
DeleteNiko left wing you're having a laugh, aren't you? I heard the gags off by the way.
ReplyDelete0t: VIDEO from 1999: Byron Dorgan vs. Gramm Leach Bliley-- WOW
I thought I was being ironic. Obviously I failed. I away to watch the link now.
DeleteJust watched it. I need to check up on what it was that he was talking about. Not being up to the mark on the terms that he was using and the 1930s law that he was quoting I'm not too sure what he meant.
DeleteWhat I do know is that money doesn't go away because it was never there in the first place. I am more than willing to accept that there were massive bad investments going on that were not regulated and backed up by peoples' savings. However, even his example of 'casino betting' doesn't get rid of the money as the casino still has it. The problem, it seems to me, is who are the 'casino owners'?
The reason that I think, and I'm willing to be wrong on this, is that the US debt, to the rest of the world, seemed to coincide with the amount of money that was lost in the financial crash. If that is the case then the US government was the 'casino owners' and needed that money [cash deposits in banks] to pay off their debts to the countries that it owed money to [possibly the Chinese and others as well as the banks that the US government owed money to] and needed a way to 'steal' the cash deposits to honour those debts.
If that is the case then why did the US government get itself into so much debt? The only conclusion that I can come to is the huge military spending that they have been going through. If that is what happened then the UK is a similar case. They have ripped off the people's saving to shore up their debts.
I know that all these suppositions are built upon one another and that it only takes one of them to be wrong to bring my 'theory' crashing to the ground but, being ignorant of the financial markets [I need to do something about this], I cannot think of anything else; unless you know different?
I noticed that you picked a picture off the Guardian and managed to put it online as a separate picture. How did you do that? I have some stuff on my pc which I want to put online and then use that as a link instead of linking to my pc.
DeleteRight click image opens message bar and left click open image. and then copy url.
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DeleteGed. Scotland Tonight on STV were saying the gagging order was a myth and Tommy was fair shouting away outside Castle Huntly right enough.
ReplyDeleteDodgy handshakes all round ? lol
Good. I was a bit concerned that the law could do that to someone.
DeleteAccording to Tommy Sheridan after being interviewed after his release [see update above] he was gagged but the gag order was taken off him.
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