Date published: 2008/09/10
The BBC says:
Six Greenpeace activists have been cleared of causing criminal damage during a protest over coal-fired power.
The activists were charged with causing £30,000 of damage after they scaled Kingsnorth power station in Hoo, Kent.
At Maidstone Crown Court Judge David Caddick said the jury had to examine whether protesters had a lawful excuse.
The defendants said the protest was lawful because it aimed to prevent damaging emissions. Energy firm E.ON said lives had been put at risk.
Surprise, once again academic middle class vandals get away with vandalism. And with this dreadful decision, in theory these people (and anyone else) can go around smashing up whatever they don't like: random power stations, random cars on the street, random supermarket displays, random factories, etc. They cannot win the argument democratically so they try and win it via vandalism and intimidation, and the court unfortunately ruled in their favour today.
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