We didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been given a record five-year prison sentence after a judge said he had “crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic”.
Roger Hallam was found guilty of conspiring to block traffic as part of a Just Stop Oil campaign on the M25 over four days of disruption in November 2022.
The Attorney General was under pressure on Thursday night to intervene over the sentences meted out to Mr Hallam, who also set up Just Stop Oil, and his co-conspirators, which are the longest for non-violent protest in living memory.
Four other eco-activists were each given four-year sentences after they were found guilty of conspiring to block traffic on the M25.
Too bad they can’t be… assigned… to an eco-job working in a recycling center in the triage section. Something to help mother earth.
Blocking a high speed motorway is hardly a non-violent protest. It invites high speed motor vehicle mayhem.
they should have been given a minimum 10 year sentence
Blocking a road is a form of kidnapping.
Hmmmm… Must’ve inconvenienced someone very, VERY high up the political food chain when they blocked the M25.
That, or maybe they had the bad luck to appear before the judge whose wife missed fully half of her regular weekly spa day due to the blockage.
Everybody in that picture looks like they need to be jap slapped.
I don’t think it’s right that they should be jailed for their beliefs.
Incarceration in a loony bin would be more appropriate.
Filthy hippies. When will these people finally realize how contemptible they are?
Now if only they’d do the same thing when Moslems block the streets with their arse-lifting.
which are the longest for non-violent protest in living memory.
Non violent protests?
Well, if words can be violent and even not speaking words affirming some insane idea can be violent, obviously blocking traffic on an important motorway is violent.
Classic Case of:
FA FO
Zero sympathy for this garbage.
Faster please. There is no end to these ecoloonie Marxist groups, but if we can put the fear of Dog into them maybe they’ll pick other targets.