I believe he was tried but then overturned because the law actually says
that his actions are correct.
He was convicted by a Magistrate of theft and criminal damage. The charge of
theft was overturned on appeal by a more stringent interpretation of theft
put up by the defence (he wrote and told them afterwards that he had removed
the signs and offered to return them on the condition they would not be used
again). The charge of criminal damage was upheld but he was let off because
the amount of damage was judged to be minimal.
The fact that the charge of criminal damage was upheld in principal
disproves the claim that his actions were lawful. Had the damage been more
extensive (such as it was on other occasions) and he hadn't acted as he did
after nicking the signs (like some of the other idiots acting under his
incitement) he would have faced the full force of the law.
It was a sad day when those judges niavely let this guy off scot free
arguably not knowing what he was really up to. It was nothing short of a
vigilante's charter.
Phil Hall
Dafter is the fact that it is an offence to sell a half-litre of beer in a
Austrian theme pub!
From: David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33124] Re: fans
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:05:33 +0100
Interesting thread, on the network54 forum, which clearly shows the intent
of Tony Bennett to deliberately promote the destruction/defacing of
private property!
Why is this man not in prison, or at least banned from the Internet?
David King
Buy UKMA's report "A Very British Mess" ISBN 0750310146
http://bookmark.iop.org/bookpge.htm?&isbn=0750310146
Avoid confusion with conversion, just learn to think metric!
http://www.thinkmetric.org.uk
Philip S Hall wrote:
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From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]
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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: [USMA:33105] Re: fans
>I don't mind -at all- people boycotting stores that go against a
personal
> position - that's people power.
>
> I was just amazed at the emotional idea of people's communities
collapsing
> because someone is selling bagettes described in imperial.
>
> A local saab dealer has put a sign up with 'metres' on it. Last time
> I
> checked there wasn't a riot taking place.
I see, so each to his own eh?
www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=101360&messageid=1034173609&lp=1034604461
<http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=101360&messageid=1034173609&lp=1034604461>
Would you care to explain this?
Phil Hall
