Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦Hands up all those who think that a black man from a council estate would have had his sentence reduced to a suspended one on appeal if he'd punched someone in exactly the same circumstances as Amesbury did?
If you or I lied to 3 courts and got found out, we'd be locked up for perjury.
But if MI5 does it, they say sorry, and that's the end of it.
I've said it before, but I think it's worth repeating:
It shows the US to be a fundamentally corrupt country the way they've actually written into their constitution that some people are above the law
It's wild how corrupt the US justice system is. It seems that Trump got off with no punishment, despite being convicted of a felony, simply because the judge thought he couldn't punish a senior politician.
And yes, I know I write this from the UK, and we're not much better here. But it just seems so much more explicit and codified in the US that politicians are above the law.
Oh, and while I completely support the wealthy landowners' right to protest peacefully, you just know that if anyone took that many tractors to Westminster to hold up the traffic because they were protesting against climate change, they'd be locked up by now.
Why is it one rule for the wealthy and one rule for the rest of us?
I realise that senior politicians are de facto above the law in the UK, but it's kind of wild that in the US they make it official.
I'm not sure that making people above the law is a good and safe thing.
I seriously doubt that Musk cares if his scheme is illegal.
One of the great things about being rich and powerful is that you are above the law and can pretty much do whatever you like.
Just ask his mate Trump: a convicted felon who has faced absolutely no punishment for his crimes (and has only even been convicted for a tiny proportion of his crimes).
I know that there is often a perception that politicians aren't subject to the same laws as the rest of us, but TIL that there is a law specifically exempting #Starmer from the same tax treatment of his pension as the rest of us have (albeit dating from before he was a politician).
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "The Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013".
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2588/made
And an explanation of what it means:
The Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013
These Regulations apply the provisions of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 to any pension payable under the pension scheme made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC.
Isn't it strange that the people who attacked the police officer were just arrested on the spot, but the police officer who kicked someone in the head has not been arrested because they first need to have an investigation "in a thorough and measured way".
Damian J.What is it about "Iron Man" competitions that allows them to close down several major roads in towns across the country for a weekend?
If I tried to play tiddlywinks in the middle of the A6, I'd be arrested.