"Andrei Sakharov was clearly warned not to keep bringing socialism into disrepute, so he practically arrested himself." --UK Twitter today.
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Replying to @Outsideness
If you bring socialism into disrepute you will probably be harassed, but if you do it while, say, robbing a bank, or broadcasting commentary on a jury trial in progress, you are making it very easy for them.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Secret trials are hard to defend in a social environment in which all institutional trust has evaporated.
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Replying to @Outsideness @anomalyuk
... "The judiciary and the media totally have this." "Yes, that's what we're worried about."
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Replying to @Outsideness
They're not secret. Anyone can turn up, throughout the trial, make notes, and publish everything they like as soon as the trial ends, exactly like any other trial at all.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @Outsideness
It's notable while every level of the British state system from Parliament to police to charities have utterly disgraced themselves on this issue, the courts have actually done a decent job; lots of convictions and (by British standards) long sentences.
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anomalyuk Retweeted anomalyuk
Also, while the "respectable" press have tried to downplay, the mass media have not been even slightly shy about their reporting.https://twitter.com/anomalyuk/status/1000731524789166081 …
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