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Bizarre.
Whether sympathetic to their actions or not, surely you can't go around destroying things with no consequence.
Nor was I.
Rather agree with them, but whatever your beliefs, you can't make a unilateral decision on what is righr or wong and just destroy what you don't like.
Good for them. Unusual to wish Bristolians well.
Not withstanding whatever defence Ponsford's barrister put up that the jury believed, this Daily Mail hit piece has him working as a carpenter living in a motorhome in Bristol, so Hampshire may be his registered address but not his place of residence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-vandals.html
One of the protesters said after the verdict that removing the statue had the affect of rewriting history. That's what the Russians did after Stalin killed at least 3m people. Bizarre. History is history that should be told truthfully however bad that may be.
I don’t think the airbrushing of past events has been recent, you just need to observe what’s around you and marvel at Old Tech to realise that.
Would have made more sense to me to find them guilty and then for the judge to impose a nominal fine.
I'm glad they didn't get criminal records for this because having one for activism of this nature is a much greater sentence than a nominal fine. It follows you around for years (sometimes for life). Anyway, a jury found them not guilty by an 11 to 1 majority and the defence argued that the statue, which stood over the city for 125 years, was so indecent and potentially abusive that it constituted a crime. The jury agreed with this. It does set a precedent. which in my view, is a good thing.
I've had discussions about this with lots of people and I always ask them to imagine a statue of Jimmy Saville being in a public place and would they feel the same way if someone/people pulled it down. Remember, Bristol had had 125 years to think this one over. It's not like the community hadn't asked politely for it to be removed. It was up to the BLM to get things going. That's a lot of waiting around for 'the state' to do the decent thing.
Somewhere in a darkened room Ugly Patel will be distraught, she was hoping to impose ten year jail sentences. Well done that jury.
Think the Bristol Mayor should explain why he and the council did not act and remove it knowing the statue had been an issue for so many and after receiving many complaints over many years ??
Let's prey this case result doesn't lead to more acts of civil action.