Tommy Sheridan's Show Trial

Like an old fashioned public hanging, Tommy Sheridan's show trial was about beating down on the radicalised poor and reducing them to docility, capable only of reading Ruper Murdoch's News of The World.

Soon we'll get to see him been wheeled away to prison. What a shame for Rupert Murdoch that we no longer use the guillotine as that really would terrorise people out their wits. In the end though, it may well be to Rupert Murdoch's benefit that we don't given that our economy is heading into French revolution territory.

Now, I've heard various justifications for his verdict but they are all based on opinion. There have been some rancourous exchanges between Tommy's followers and and others in Tommy's former party - the SSP. The SSP have pointed to the verdict arguing that they've been vindicated after years of persecution.

I'm afraid the SSP will never shake this off. The way the trial was conducted casts serious doubt over the verdict as pointed out by Ian Hamilton QC. Ian's comparing the miscarriage of justice in the Sheridan case with that of the Lockerbie case is unfortunate and shows, I think, Ian's rightful distress at the verdict.

Many will and have speculated that Sheridan is guilty of perjury but guilt must be PROVEN not believed if a person is to be found guilty of a criminal charge. In the case of Tommy Sheridan the jury was directed to accept evidence, the reliability of which is more than dubious, as hard.

The Lockerbie case does show that the Scottish justice system can be lent on to provide favourable results for the powerful. And you don't get much more powerful than Rupert Murdoch.

If the SSP were to be taken seriously they'd realise that this verdict sends out a message to the wider population. The message is a threat to all of us. We must not seriously challenge authority or we get the same treatment as the Sheridans. This is the type of behaviour we expect from totalitarian regimes. The hounding and harassment of political figures shows that a society is in deep trouble.

We now live in times where banks extort trillions of pounds of taxpayers money from the government and are protected while at the same time a left wing politician is villified for his alleged sexual proclivities by the gutter press and then subjected to investigations costing the public millions of pounds and a show trial with an unsound verdict.

Why are we even interested in Tommy's sexual conduct? Jealousy? Our own sexual repression? Who cares what Tommy got up to? As to the cost, the police don't respond to burglary calls in housing schemes for hours yet here we have millions being spent on a perjury investigation.

Is Scotland entering a period of McCarthyism? The reality is that we are. Hyped stories of terrorists everywhere, perpetual wars, wealth confiscation are all signs that Britain is now in its death throws, controlled by extreme kleptocrats and so thoroughly corrupted it is unable to function for the public good. Democracy is over.

Just like the French Revolution the kleptocrats are trying to keep control and how better to do that than have the people fight among themselves. We now see the English being driven to hatred of the 'parasitic' Scots so as to deflect attention from their misgovernance. This is where Murdoch's powers lie. He can turn the people against the government at the flick of a switch. They are terrified of his power.

Political organisation of the poor must be battered down. This is the real motivation behind the Sheridan show trial. Don't get me wrong, his politics doesn't grip me and his vanity less so, but Sheridan threatened the Glasgow power-base of the Labour party. This power base is what ties Scotland to the union. Tommy was eating into Labour's Glasgow colonies suits the British establishment. Labour get the votes as long as its voters remain poverty-stricken and beaten into submission. This is done using popular leftist language about sticking it to the bosses. The poor in and around Glasgow are proud and defiant and that language keeps them believing they are still stuggling against their oppression. The trouble is the party which pretends to protect them sold out long ago. Tommy was taking on Labour from the left and had to be stopped at ALL COSTS.

In the end Tommy Sheridan had numerous powerful enemies. The Scottish justice system delivered him on a plate.

One wonders what leverage Murdoch had over the Scottish justice system. The truth behind the Lockerbie Show Trial? Just who is the Scottish justice system now beholden to?

The manner of the raid of the Sheridan family home was a disgrace and raises further questions about Britain becoming a police state.

Watch the police interview of Gail Sheridan below. This is the wife of a public figure, former party leader and MSP. and yet she is being intimidated by a police detective who tells her she's behaving like a terrorist!

I'm sorry but this is unacceptable. The conduct of our police and justice system is an attack on the dignity of all Scots. If we do not unite against this outrageous series of events then we are nothing but pathetic excuses of citizens.

What self-respecting nation would let the News of The World drag it through the gutter the way it has. The case of Tommy Sheridan is now being flaunted in our faces. The message? Don't forget who's boss!

I suspect Tommy Sheridan will, once more, achieve martyr status. The press hounds are trying to bury him already but this story is not over. Like Wikileaks hero Julian Assange, also labelled as a pervert, the frothing establishment realised they went too far and could not keep him locked up lest he become more powerful.

It wouldn't be a surprise if Tommy's appeal, now lodged, will be gladly upheld.

video with thanks to Moridura

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Update:
Here is very interesting article on the Tommy Sheridan trial by Kenneth Roy Why the Sheridan case may return to haunt Scottish justice