To the surprise of most of those watching, including ourselves, the Court Of Session delivered its judgement immediately at the end of today’s hearing, after only the most cursory of conflabs between the three august panel members.
The short version is that the Scottish Government lost, and must now comply with Wings reader Benjamin Harrop‘s FOI request regarding evidence that was supplied to independent adviser James Hamilton during his inquiry into the unlawful investigation of false allegations against Alex Salmond.
I am greatly honoured to have been targeted for censorship in the same weekend as two great artists as rightly esteemed as Salman Rushdie and Jerry Sadowitz. (Though thankful to have not yet been violently physically attacked for my views, as both have.)
To be honest, I was amazed my most recent Twitter account lasted three months. I set it up in May for the sole purpose of a throwaway rude reply to Darren “Loki” McGarvey and Kenny Farquharson of The Times, expecting it to be banned within hours, then somehow it had thousands of followers and I figured I might as well have a bit of fun with it for however long it lasted against the barrage of shrieking outrage and mass organised complaints from the SNP Twitler Youth.
Which turned out to be until Saturday night.
Twitter has declined to identify who I supposedly incited the harassment of, or to offer any examples of the offending tweets. Obviously I did no such thing, but it’s good to know that “in order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs on our platform”, only some opinions and beliefs may be expressed.
Just for a little bit of fun. This is actual footage of North Korean TV news (source: NK News) from today, but I thought it deserved a more moving soundtrack.
It is of course not for this site to question the judgement of Lady Dorrian (while noting that the verdict may well be subject to appeal and is therefore not yet final), although we do find some aspects of it somewhat troubling – particularly paragraph 74 in which the fate of a defendant appears to be held hostage to the speculative “imagination” of a hypothetical observer.
But it’s not the conviction (NB we are not lawyers and the strange civil/criminal hybrid that is the offence of contempt of court makes the correct terminology somewhat uncertain) of Craig Murray that’s the true cause for concern in this matter.
What’s alarming, as this site has noted previously, is the highly selective and partisan eye with which the Crown Office appears to be pursuing the offence.
Hatey McHateface on The Silent Revolution: ““genuine people” Wasn’t it yourself, just a few days ago, who posted admitting you’re a long way past the age…” Jan 28, 08:18
Hatey McHateface on The Silent Revolution: “A careful reading of some of gregor’s recent posts, geri, suggests he still has his own teeth. I believe that…” Jan 28, 08:04
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “The Flying Iron of Doom: “Maybe in about seven hundred years time they’ll be calling him the Spammer of the…” Jan 28, 08:01
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Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “Andy, you seem to have developed a trait in your written opinions assuming that you and the Rev speak, if…” Jan 28, 02:04
Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “Why the down votes again? This place is becoming a Unionist tick box site. Needs sorted or genuine people are…” Jan 28, 01:56
Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “I don’t agree. Not overnight no but the SNPs electoral defenestration over the last few years shows they have (no…” Jan 28, 01:52
Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “Pointless comment. Where’s your blunderbuss moderation here then Rev or are you having a Jekyll and Hyde moment and inventing…” Jan 28, 00:51
Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “History lesson: It was a majority of Scottish (bribed) MPs that got us into this mess. So logically it’s a…” Jan 28, 00:42
The Flying Iron of Doom on The Silent Revolution: “Maybe in about seven hundred years time they’ll be calling him the Spammer of the Scots, who knows? 🙂” Jan 28, 00:28
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gregor on The Silent Revolution: “Correction: “we’ll” (I’m only human:)” Jan 27, 23:22
gregor on The Silent Revolution: “You’ve missed the reality-hammer, Geri Scotland’s zombies and lost souls find it difficult to take. I’m confident well get there…” Jan 27, 23:19
gregor on The Silent Revolution: “Thanks Geri, Your defence of Scotland is noted among the frauds/useful idiots. I value Team-Scotland Champs like you… #TrueScotlandPatriot” Jan 27, 23:15
willie on The Silent Revolution: “Yes Alf, sensible pragmatic words. Trump could indeed change the landscape for Scotland. Starmer and Swinney picked a big enemy…” Jan 27, 22:58
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gregor on The Silent Revolution: “Looks like I’m Scotland’s original lover (blush) Nobody is willing to step up for Scotland, huh You lot don’t deserve…” Jan 27, 22:48
gregor on The Silent Revolution: “I admire Hatey’s unmitigated resilience, despite his forever-masochistic tendencies. He’s even got a sense of humour (unlike a cohort of…” Jan 27, 22:31
Geri on The Silent Revolution: “That’s right. It’s his site. Of course you’ve been there before, Herr Flick. I bet you’d have loved being in…” Jan 27, 22:28
Dan on The Silent Revolution: “Hi Mary, I think it’s always useful to share links with content like that which folk may not have been…” Jan 27, 22:27
Geri on The Silent Revolution: “Does it ever cross yer tiny mind that it may have been YOU that pissed them off? Leave Gregor alone.…” Jan 27, 22:23
gregor on The Silent Revolution: “Can’t you fight your own battle, Big Andy I’m only 5.6ft (just a little nothing-gardener) I don’t mind if you…” Jan 27, 22:18
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