Eaststand wrote:Nah, thats a twisted way of looking at it. Heres the real timeline of events.
He did something that is illegal.
He got arrested for it.
Because he had a suspended sentence, that means he can go to jail immediately and not pass go or collect £200
Takes out gagging order to make his window licking fans think hes a martyr.
Well if that's what happened. No one seems to know for certain what has happened in what is supposed to be a public process .
It's generally a bad thing when people are arrested and sent off to prison and the only thing the public hear is a vague version of events from some unattributable source within the state
I don't think there's any means by which he could take out a "gagging order" so that's probably wrong. What do you base that on ?
Ralph is quite right that he might apparently have been compromising someone else's fair trial and if that's so it's a serious matter, but of course that underlines that cases must be dealt with within the rules and that he must also receive a trial under proper public scrutiny.
I don't like the fact that we seem to be guessing and speculating on the matter, and I like even less the fact that some people seem quite happy to assume guilt because they hold some unrelated dislike of the accused.
No surprise to me really, but it's a big intersection on the road to a banana republic .