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Originally Posted by dr wadd
You mean the most serious charge they can throw at them without risking p*ssing off the voters of middle England. As someone pointed our earlier, if that had been a disgruntled Muslim cleric the response would have likely been very different.
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The logical conclusion of what you're saying is that the Metropolitan Police presses charges (or not) based on the political sensitivities of the Government of the day. Now I can be as cynical as the next man, but sorry, I'm just not buying that. The voters of Middle England have got nothing to do with this. We already know from evidence given in court after the last F4J stunt that the Met are interested in throwing the book at these people, not letting them off the hook to spare the blushes of whoever is responsible for security in the Commons.
Let's get one thing clear. In English Law, those two men
did not conduct an act of terrorism. They engaged in an act of political protest. Whether it overstepped the line of legitimacy and became 'threatening behaviour' will be decided in court. But it is already apparent that whatever the court decides, their actions were
no more serious than threatening behaviour.