Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Sputnik — Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months for Contempt of Court Over Alex Salmond Trial

 First Assange and now Murray. Free speech and free press in UK no more?

Both of these cases, along with several others, are likely to prove to have been strategic blunders when the debris settles. More hemorrhaging of  soft power.

Sputnik International
Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months for Contempt of Court Over Alex Salmond Trial

See also

Consortium News
Murray Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison
Joe Lauria

6 comments:

Marian Ruccius said...

So, the neo-Liberal Sturgeon's interests aligned with those of the intelligence services and war promoters.

Tom Hickey said...

So, the neo-Liberal Sturgeon's interests aligned with those of the intelligence services and war promoters.

The masks are off and the gloves, too. It's brass knuckles now that the elite feels threatened by an open Internet, social media and citizen journalism.

The true colors are flying now — the pirate flag has been run up.

This is not governance but piracy.

Who is the major threat to democratic governance (which doesn't actually exist anywhere anyway as government of, by and for the people)?. Rhetorical question. The major threat to democratic governance is the present state of government in the "bastions" of democracy, the US and UK.

Peter Pan said...

The woke crowd don't have a problem with it.

Tom Hickey said...

The woke crowd don't have a problem with it.

Much of the "woke" crowd is deeply asleep in many other ways, or dreaming. They have been successfully been co-opted. Or else are too dense get what is really going down.

Matt Franko said...

“ Or else are too dense get what is really going down.”

I vote for that option...

Peter Pan said...

Liberal coastal elites have been co-opted since the Obama years.