Britain Has Jumped the Shark

This report indicates that logic and rational thinking have been jettisoned from the British legal system and replaced with lemming-like cult worship of Earth God Gaia. The majority Christian nation now has precedent to ignore legally enacted laws.

This is very big. Over in the UK, a group of Greenpeace supporters trespassed on to a coal-fired power station and started vandalizing it, painting a message to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown about global warming. They were arrested and prosecuted.

Their defense strategy was to claim a "lawful excuse" on the grounds that their actions could help prevent significant damage to others' property that would result from global warming. Their defense witnesses included James Hansen, Al Gore's adviser and head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, and Zac Goldsmith, ultra-wealthy heir of Sir James Goldsmith and a wannabe Tory MP.

The strategy worked. Yesterday, a jury returned a majority verdict, acquiting the so-called Kingsnorth Six. As The Independent put it, the jury decided the "threat of global warming justifies breaking the law."

If the laws of Britain can be superceded by the scurrilous assertions of Mother Earth cultists, the UK ceases to be a democratic nation governed by laws.

So, where does it end? When property can be maliciously damaged with impunity, contrary to existing laws, using global warming as a "lawful excuse," what prevents eco-terrorists from exterminating populations of citizens citing the lawful excuse that they contribute to global warming?

In Britain, justice has become a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Allowed to continue, Britain can expect anarchy and ruin or totalitarianism and ruin. Take your pick.

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