Edward Colston statue: Four cleared of criminal damage

[AngleEyes]

Your ancestors may well have been executioners -- would that mean you'd feel ashamed to bear your family name?

If they'd been responsible for the transport of 84,000 slaves, 19,000 of whom died, I'd be very ashamed.

What motivated the 'statue toppling' was raw emotion,

I suspect you'd feel the same kind of emotion if you were standing in front of a statue that was venerating the enslaving of 84,000 of your ancestors, 19,000 of whom died in the process.

and the false belief that by doing it, they were 'fixing' racism in Britain,

I'm pleased that you were able to understand their objective.

which is totally removed from the life of an 18th Century philanthropist.

That 18th century philanthropist was only able to be philanthropical due to his enslaving of 84,000 people, plus his investment in other slave endeavours.

 

[AngleEyes]

I don't like the Normans; stole the whole country and enslaved all the natives; let's remove all reminders of them.

Best of luck with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_William_the_Conqueror

 

[Mottie]

I suspect you'd feel the same kind of emotion if you were standing in front of a statue that was venerating the enslaving of 84,000 of your ancestors, 19,000 of whom died in the process.

Oh, so those that felt that emotion were the actual ancestors of the African slaves he traded? Got a link for that?

 

[noseall]

Surely democratic process should prevail? Who decides if something should be changed the elected leaders or the unelected who don't like it. Would I be justified in attacking statues of those who promote the concept of white privilege?

Democratic process?
Are you suggesting that the hundreds of thousands of minions that despise the statue are usurped by the one or two in office that don't? How is that democracy?

All irrelevant considering our fine courts of law have determined it was a legal act to remove the offensive abomination.

 

[noseall]

Oh, so those that felt that emotion were the actual ancestors of the African slaves he traded? Got a link for that?

Google 'BLM' and become educated.

 

[Mottie]

Google 'BLM' and become educated.

No need to. Read Angles post and you'll understand why I asked. He was inferring that those that that were charged with pulling down the statue were ancestors of those enslaved. There's no mention of BLM.

 

[joe384]

Democratic process?
Are you suggesting that the hundreds of thousands of minions that despise the statue are usurped by the one or two in office that don't? How is that democracy?

He means there should a democratic process to decide this, like I dunno, a referendum?

All irrelevant considering our fine courts of law have determined it was a legal act to remove the offensive abomination.

They seem to have determined it's ok to cause criminal damage if you don't get your way and it hurts your feelings

 

[Deleted member 292770]

Google 'BLM' and become educated.

I typed in BLM . This came up
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ested-murder-critically-injuring-partner.html
Thanks for the education.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Four people accused of illegally removing a statue of Edward Colston have been cleared of criminal damage.

Sage Willoughby, Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford and Jake Skuse were charged after a monument to the 17th Century slave trader was pulled down and thrown into Bristol's harbourside last June.

Surely if they did it, they were guilty, if the didn't they were innocent - all the judge had to do was decide the punishment if guilty.

 

[noseall]

They seem to have determined it's ok to cause criminal damage if you don't get your way and it hurts your feelings

Only to those who don't understand the law, the case in question and have an IQ that you don't trip over.

 

[Notch7]

From the article

elsewhere it says opinions had changed.

 

[noseall]

Surely if they did it, they were guilty

Of what? Perhaps Bristol should compensate them for doing the city a favour. Have they sought recompense for removing the abomination?

 

[motorbiking]

I suspect a civil damages claim would succeed. Maybe that’s the council’s next move.

 

[motorbiking]

I hope none of my deeds will be so horrific that I, or rather my statues, am held to account 112 years after my death.

I predict all IT workers will be branded destroyers of lives due to the endless KPIs, job reductions, enslaving of the unskilled and promotion of failed AI, machine learning and craptocurrencies.

they will be burnt at the stake along with lawyers and local council officers.

 

[IT Minion]

I predict all IT workers will be branded destroyers of lives due to the endless KPIs, job reductions, enslaving of the unskilled and promotion of failed AI, machine learning and craptocurrencies.

they will be burnt at the stake along with lawyers and local council officers.

Our robot overlords will not have an opinion either way, we will all burn.