The judges have been arrested.

squod

Protetsors have "civilly arrested" a judge at Birkenhead county court.

A crowd of several hundred people has massed around the court in Birkenhead.

Police have begun forcibly ejecting protestors from the court in chaotic scenes.

Made up of people from across the UK, the marchers say they are excerting their "ancient right to lawful Rebellion under Article 16 of Magna Carta."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMDhhRpdQb4

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8893981.BREAKING_NEWS__Protestors__arrest__county_court_judge/

We have invited the police to arrest the judge.......but the police will not do their job.

Is civil uprising the new phenomenon for 2011?


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mikemac

Probably followers of that "freeman" nonsense I read about in Motors forum

Wasters go to District court and refuse to recognize the judge and I'm a freeman with my own jurisdiction, bla bla

Fine dodgers the lot of them

Congrats on your post 4000

General General

If you try this kind of **** in the PRC, you end up doing twenty years hard manual labour, manufacturing iPhones.

squod

General General wrote: »

If you try this kind of **** in the PRC, you end up doing twenty years hard manual labour, manufacturing iPhones.

And that's what used to separate us. Britain and Ireland were once models for democracy. Where did it all go wrong.

Einhard

Muppets.

General General

squod wrote: »

And that's what used to separate us. Britain and Ireland were once models for democracy. Where did it all go wrong?

Edward Louis Bernays

Sonics2k

So, what exactly are they arresting him for?

orourkeda

The law is an ass

Cavehill Red

Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Fair play to the protesters. It's time people stopped bowing down to their enslavement by banks, by governments and by institutions they never had a say in.
I'm proud of my fellow humans across Arabia and North Africa for standing up for their own freedom, just as I was proud of my Icelandic brothers for refusing to put on the chains of debt they never accrued.

I just wish that the so-called fighting Irish would find some similar spirit.

squod

Sonics2k wrote: »

So, what exactly are they arresting him for?

Corruption (says the bloke in the video).

argosy2006

I would have said
'PANCAKES'' when asked ' what do we want ''

Einhard

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Fair play to the protesters. It's time people stopped bowing down to their enslavement by banks, by governments and by institutions they never had a say in.
I'm proud of my fellow humans across Arabia and North Africa for standing up for their own freedom, just as I was proud of my Icelandic brothers for refusing to put on the chains of debt they never accrued.

I just wish that the so-called fighting Irish would find some similar spirit.

The guy leading the demonstration put his views before the electorate, and came forth. His views didn't gain a democratic mandate, and now he seeks to force them through vigilante activism. How noble...

K-9

Liking the mob wresting control from the herd!

argosy2006

ssssshhhhhhh be quite, everyone shut up, sssssshhhhhhhhh
then he has nothing to say !

mikom

General General wrote: »

If you try this kind of **** in the PRC, you end up doing twenty years hard manual labour, manufacturing iPhones.

They make iPhones in cork...........?

Cavehill Red

Einhard wrote: »

The guy leading the demonstration put his views before the electorate, and came forth. His views didn't gain a democratic mandate, and now he seeks to force them through vigilante activism. How noble...

Came forth or came fourth?
Fourth in a first past the post system is a very significant performance, I'd have thought, without knowing the actual numbers. Though I'd hazard a guess that whoever claimed the seat to 'represent' the people of the constituency received less than 40% of the vote and less than 20% support of the entire populace, rendering the result, in my mind anyway, somewhat dubious.
Vigilante activism is perfectly noble, incidentally. The man who prevents a rape or the mugging of a pensioner is entirely noble. Citizen's arrest is enshrined in law at a very fundamental level, because to empower a police force with the entire responsibility of enforcing law would be to create an elite and disenfranchise the populace from their own justice.

Edit:
One protestor said:
"The purpose of today is to generally to get a feel of how unsatisfied people are with the governing of the country.
"I wouldn’t say I was angry, just dissatisfied. I believe that the power is distributed unfairly at this point in time.
“I believe that the people who are in control are morally defunct.
"I don't think they are serving the interests of those they are supposed to be serving."

I don't think it's possible to argue with those points, in a British or Irish context. I find it curious that the British authorities are ploughing millions into supporting demotic protest in Libya yet seek to arrest those engaged in exactly the same process in their own country.

Mahatma coat

But they aint Pumping Money into to Libya to Support Democracy.

They are pumping money into Libya in the hopes that the people who will control the oil fiewlds look favourably upon them.

Cavehill Red

Mahatma coat wrote: »

But they aint Pumping Money into to Libya to Support Democracy.

They are pumping money into Libya in the hopes that the people who will control the oil fiewlds look favourably upon them.

Possibly. But that's not why Cameron says they're pumping money (and SAS backing) into supporting the protests in Libya, is it?
If we take him at his word, then he is supporting the sort of protests he suppresses at home, and is hence a hypocrite.
If we don't take him at his word, then these protesters are correct and the government does not function to represent them because he is simply taking whatever actions shore up his power base.