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CITY OF WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES: GUILTY x 2 DAY 3906: FEBRUARY 13TH 2012.  two gravy-trains prescott: always on the take. Yesterday Babs was not so unsurprisingly found guilty of "criminal damage" in cutting Boris' fences in Parliament Square. We expedited matters by agreeing a Section 10 statement, which in agreeing all the facts, meant that no witnesses needed to be called. Steve Jago acted as Mackenzie friend and gave Babs useful advice with the necessary court ruling in R v Loosely on entrapment. Babs was then able to take to the witness stand and started at the sort of the very beginning/end? of the de-fence saga. Babs explained that last year, when the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger did not listen, (and covered up evidence) she walked out of the Court of Appeal, bought the bolt cutters and cut the fences...etc. Lord Neuberger was of course like all the others just throwing process at us, whereby "they" do what they like and we have to pick up the pieces and appeal, this that and the other, all over the place etc. The long and short of it was, District Judge Roscoe rejected a defence of entrapment, because (in theory at least !!) Babs had not exhausted all legal avenues, before cutting the fences to provide public access and show the High Court Injunction and fences were illegal. So the message is that we need to do more work in showing that it is down to Parliament that we simply cannot get a fair hearing in the UK. Of course the "police" have not helped matters by stealing our Application to Europe which they are refusing to return !!!! And of course Babs is not interested in endlessly playing cat and mouse with a government who refuse to accept that it is as simple as we are a peaceful assembly under the Public Order Act. The very fact that the state are determined to go beyond the Public Order Act to make additional laws, shows that it is our message about Genocide and war crimes, that they are trying to shut down. The state make the additional "laws" specifically to try to censor what we say, and to limit the duration of our campaign, by trying to claim for example that our peaceful assembly is variously a trespass that had involved our taking possession of public space, which we did not. I pointed out that what is going on is, that while the state are conducting a military campaign, we are conducting a peace campaign. But as we pointed out yesterday, we have occupied and taken possession of nothing. The evidence that was in fact covered up, showed we had never stopped other large groups like for example, students, Tamils, and people on New Years Eve and the Tour De France from using Parliament Square Green. District Judge Roscoe noted that we had always disassociated ourselves from Democracy Village who were entirely another kettle of fish in terms of everything they did (that the press and government tried to bundle us in with) in Parliament Square. Babs was fined 50 pounds per fence, payable at 5 pounds per week, with two nine month conditional discharges. And so while the fences have been taken down for the time being, the battle over Boris' continuing lies and new laws/byelaws continues this Friday in the High Court. The public space where people speak out, that is Parliament Square, needs to remain open to all.
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