2010-07-07 Lynch-mob justice

[Korpitutkija]

In both Britain and America, ideological prejudices are coming to undermine the rule of law. In a number of incidents, people who have committed criminal acts have been acquitted or had their cases dismissed purely because they represent a politically correct cause or belong to a 'powerless' victim group.

An English jury decided in September 2008 that causing more than £35,000 of damage to a coal-fired power station was justified as a protest against man-made global warming. The jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage after they argued that they had a 'lawful excuse' to trash property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater harm caused by climate change.

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An impartial and objective justice system is fundamental to a free society. When ideology replaces the rule of law, the ultimate result will be rule by lynch mob.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=752

Melanie Phillips
On Britain and Islam
She says that Britain is "sleepwalking towards cultural suicide" and "has capitulated to Islamic terror."[17] She added: "Britain at this moment isn't really sane. It is gripped by a kind of collective derangement... This is no longer England, however. It is Lemmingland."[18] This is part of a deeper "moral sickness of the West", causing it to destroy itself and permit the rise of Islamism.[19] She has written in support of Geert Wilders, who she says is being criminalised in Britain "for telling the truth".[20]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Phillips