A month ago, we told you the U.K. is poised to eliminate the centuries-old cornerstone of Western jurisprudence: the jury trial. The right to be judged by a jury of one's peers prevents the government from having total control of one's fate.
But now it's even worse, and the once great British Empire has fallen into an Orwellian police state. Not only is the country eliminating jury trials for some offenses, but it is also allowing magistrates to sentence people to up to two years in prison without the right to appeal.
That 40 percent of appeals from magistrate courts were upheld suggests there are many innocent Brits who will be falsely imprisoned.
That's 2,000 cases. That's 2,000 people who will be wrongly imprisoned.
There is a solid case for doing this.
It's all projection.
There is no other way to interpret this.
They gave up their guns, and they lost their freedoms.
Incredibly scary.
It's nothing short of an abuse of state power.