On a related note, the Scottish woman being prosecuted for wrongthink, Marion Millar, has obtained legal representation in the form of lawyer and Scottish MP Joanna Cherry. Which is probably better than being represented by a right-wing religious freedom outfit. Millar was supposed to make her first court appearance tomorrow, but the prosecution have announced that they are postponing the hearing until August 17. No reason was given.
I can only assume that the prosecutor must have had a nervous breakdown or mental health crisis at the prospect of appearing in court to argue that a picture of a suffragette ribbon constitutes a hate crime.
After multiple postponements, Scottish prosecutors have discontinued the case against Marion Millar.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59076966They dragged proceedings on for as long as they could to keep the Sword of Damocles dangling over Millar for as long as possible; when more delays were no longer viable they punted. Discontinuing the case means they don't have to face a crushing legal defeat which would dissuade them from doing the same thing to someone else. They don't actually even want to go to court and risk defeat, because that would mean they'd have to stop this tactic. They're happy doing what they're doing, which is to use the process itself as the punishment. In regard to the months of anxiety and legal expense they inflicted upon Marion Millar they will simply say "well, we have discontinued the case, so no harm no foul, carry on, pip-pip" and move on to inflicting the same anxiety and legal expenses upon the next woman.
The next woman has already been picked; her name is Ceri Black, a Northern Ireland lesbian who police "requested" come for an interview regarding something-or-other she posted on the Bird App. She has publicly stated that she's not coming; they will have come arrest her. The police have embarked on a
strategy of begging and/or pleading with Black to get an interview.
-k