Go ahead. London juries love this.
The British legal system is in chaos today after climate activists were declared "not guilty" of causing £500,000 of damage to a bank, despite irrefutable evidence that they had done so.
The nine accused were cleared by a jury after just two hours of deliberation, purely on the basis of hysterical arguments about climate change and cosmopolitan sympathy for eco-fascism fuelled by decades of left/green cultural dominance in the media, universities, and wider culture.
As reported by Sky News:
The Extinction Rebellion campaigners admitted using hammers and chisels to break windows at HSBC in Canary Wharf in the morning of 22 April 2021, but denied this was criminal conduct. They were protesting against the bank's investments in coal and for facilitating other fossil fuel financing.They wore patches with the words "better broken windows than broken promises" - a phrase coined by the Suffragettes - and put up stickers on the windows saying: "£80 billion into fossil fuels in the last 5 years."
The decision calls into question the cornerstone of British law, namely trial by jury, as any criminal who makes a "social justice" or "ecological" case for his or her crimes now has a good chance of being let off to commit further offences. At least in London.
In fact, this case -- and the others that it will doubtless inspire -- could provide an impetus for future British governments to abolish the jury system, claiming that it is no longer functional, thus removing a vital safeguard against growing government tyranny.
In fact, this case -- and the others that it will doubtless inspire -- could provide an impetus for future British governments to abolish the jury system, claiming that it is no longer functional, thus removing a vital safeguard against growing government tyranny.
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