Did you know that "do you plead guilty to the charges?" was once an unlikely question to be answered?
Until the 18th century, common #law had a clause in which a person charged with a capital #offence would be subjected to torture if they did not plead either #guilty or not.
Many defendants refused to plead despite this prospect, because if they did, their heirs would not inherit their property!
#Torture by crushing was used to either elicit a plead or #death.
Trick and Treat by Fairlight and Offence and Prosonix (Commodore 64 Demo)
https://video.infiniteloop.tv/videos/watch/acd1fc8b-dde6-40e3-a12c-37553e1feb17
Fopcycle by Fairlight, Offence and Prosonix (Commodore 64 Demo)

We Are All Connected by Fairlight and Offence and Prosonix (Commodore 64 Demo)
https://video.infiniteloop.tv/videos/watch/3fe3c5c3-79a9-42b7-b669-0392347f8cbf
We Come In Peace by Censor and Fairlight and Offence (Commodore 64 Demo)
https://video.infiniteloop.tv/videos/watch/bb2fccee-4355-4c6f-9a31-0cb06f87b478
You’ve noticed by now that more suffering is inflicted on the world by people who take offence than by people who give it. And that what we stop doing is vastly more significant than what we start doing.
[Video] #AntiHateCrime #Law #Protesters #Rally at in #Scotland as #JKRowling #dares #Police to #Arrest Her.
The act consolidates existing #hatecrime #legislation and creates a new #offence of #stirring up #hatred against #protected #characteristics.
From April 1, if you offend anyone in #scotland you can be prosecuted, regardless of where on the planet you are.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/03/scotlands-hate-speech-act-and-abuse-of-process/
On 1 April Scotland’s notorious Hate Crime Act comes into force. I have explained before why it is so noxious. It has been condemned by every civil liberties body you can think of. Police Scotland have made matters still worse by telling their officers that the measure of whether a Hate Crime has been committed […]