Solidarity with Tommy Robinson.

I believe Tommy was a citizen journalist.

I think his sentence was unfair!

Live from the rally to free Tommy!

Oh jeepers, CNN, BBC and Sky will pretend this didn't happen.

Flip, the cops are there!

Not looking so groovy.

God Save The Queen

Gentlemen:

Hey Tommy!

Tommy, Tommy Robinson!

The roadie interview: "Brian May".

Would all be easier, if that bro didn't play with a coin.

Geert Wilders from holland!

Free Tommy Roberston!

a reply to: halfoldman

Oh #, here they come.

The people are mighty restless.

Oh, my Lord. Robinson was imprisoned for contempt of court. He was attempting to compromise a criminal trial.

The first time he did it he was warned he would be imprisoned if he continued. He continued, so was sent to prison.

At least start with the facts before thinking Robinson (or Yaxley-Lennon, to call him by his real name) is some political prisoner, or poor misunderstood "citizen journalist".

Crown Court
Secret Barrister

a reply to: paraphi

No, he was arrested for disturbing the peace, with his camera man all.

My opinion?
He's an obvious political prisoner.

originally posted by: paraphi
Oh, my Lord. Robinson was imprisoned for contempt of court. He was attempting to compromise a criminal trial.

The first time he did it he was warned he would be imprisoned if he continued. He continued, so was sent to prison.

At least start with the facts before thinking Robinson (or Yaxley-Lennon, to call him by his real name) is some political prisoner, or poor misunderstood "citizen journalist".

Crown Court
Secret Barrister

You know the rightwingers need their alternative facts to survive, to live, to breathe.

And btw, half old men seem not to be automatically half intelligent men...

Free Willy!

originally posted by: halfoldman
a reply to: paraphi

No, he was arrested for disturbing the peace, with his camera man all.

No he wasn't arrested for disturbing the peace, it was for another violation.

He didn't have a camera man. He was live streaming on his cell phone. Get your facts straight.

a reply to: strongfp


Nope, I followed this from the start and the police was called and arrested him for a disturbance of peace!
He didn't even have a camera, he was walking and speaking into his phone.
Later they said because he was on probation, he will get jail.
However the arrest was 'disturbance of peace', which was a made up reason as he din't disturb anyone. It was a drizzly day and a couple of people walked by whilst he spoke into his mobile phone.

It helps to have watched this enfolding long before the MSN got their claws into this and distorted the truth.

originally posted by: halfoldman
No, he was arrested for disturbing the peace, with his camera man all.

Yes, he was. Do you know what that offence actually is? As covered in the link I posted above...

For the lazy, here's a snippet on breaching the peace, but please read it to help understand how the law works AND to debunk some of the myths around Robinson's imprisonment.

The courts have confirmed that it covers situations where, for example, there are reasonable grounds to fear that a demonstrator or protestor is likely to incite violence, even violence against themselves. This appears to be applicable to the present case. Robinson provocatively filming defendants and streaming on Facebook for the edification of his cult, is the kind of thing which could, it might be argued, lead to a breach of the peace.

Source Secret Barrister

There are no political prisoners in the UK.

a reply to: halfoldman

Ah the feather touch, producing such beauty.

Back to the topic, expect the usuals to come in screaming how he could have caused a mistrial or he's defending pedophiles

a reply to: strongfp

Nope got the footage, he was initially arrested for disturbing the peace.
Which is as spurious and ridiculous as the other charges.

a reply to: paraphi

What, he made a film?

His streaming (still available) was over an hour - and he never mentioned any alleged perpetrator that could have prejudiced the on-going trial in any way (since it was all published by the BBC).

Neither was he disturbing the peace -it was him and an entourage of three people.

Nope, they just didn't like his free speech!

There are no political prisoners in the UK.

Apparently there is one!

originally posted by: halfoldman
What, he made a film?

He live streamed from outside a court. It's complicated for some people to grasp, but in the UK we try to ensure people do not disrupt criminal trials. Ignorance of how the court system works in the England and Wales (and the UK) is just ignorance, nothing more.

Had he sat at home live streaming, then that's not problematic. This whole affair has sod-all to do with free speech, so keep trying to convince yourself.