21 December (Part 3) - Who’s the criminal?
Take
a good look at this bunch of ruthless and malicious incompetents. These are the people responsible for
raiding the home of a lone pregnant woman at dawn, seizing all the equipment from her
home office - she is self-employed - and leaving her without her computers,
phone, camera, memory sticks and all the other paraphernalia of modern business.
It remains confiscated two months later.
The grinning cop was so confident that he was on to a
dangerous criminal that all his men were stripped of ID so that they could do
what they liked without fear of comeback. Perhaps he had
already booked a place at Guantanamo Bay or maybe he just keeled over at the
behest of his political paymasters. Hard to tell and now we will probably never
know because all the harassment charges against Olly Cromwell were dropped at
the Magistrates Court this morning. He will not be tried for that offence. He
is entirely innocent in law of harassing anyone.
But it’s not the end of the matter because we are dealing with deeply
wicked people intent on silencing all criticism presumably because there is
corruption to be hidden; what other reason could there be?
Their next wheeze is to get Olly on a charge of sending an offensive message. It is a
political act (Olly’s barrister instantly expressed that view) worthy of a corrupt
dictatorial regime. In Bexley we seem to have one. This is modern day Conservatism
purporting to be operating under David Cameron’s creed and chosen by Mayor
Boris Johnson as the best example in London of Conservative politics in action, but
in truth plumbing the depths of political skullduggery. Boris not
only acts the buffoon, he must be one to associate himself with bent Bexley.
The
new single charge against Olly is that he Twittered “What c**t lives in a house
like that, let’s post him actual sh*t” alongside a picture of an unidentified
house. It was councillor Seymour’s house but you would need to know that to put
two and two together. Councillor Seymour isn’t a Twitterer so he wouldn’t
know of it and could have lived in blissful ignorance; but enter stage left councillor
Sandra Bauer, busybody and nosy parker extraordinaire. She saw the Tweet and got on to Seymour
straight away and the invitation to post “actual sh*t” - which I took to be
Twitter-speak for send critical messages - was
magically transformed into “put dog faeces through the letterbox”. Not sure why
Bauer and/or Seymour found it necessary to embroider the truth, but between them they did.
Is that single Tweet offensive? It’s not for me to say but I do know you can read
worse on the net any time you like and unlike Olly’s Tweet not all fail to identify the target.
In Court this morning there were 44 minutes of legal debate. I heard
the judge say after consulting a big fat book that it will be necessary to
prove that Olly’s Tweet was not only “grossly offensive” but that he intended to
cause “distress and anxiety”. Given that Olly was not communicating with
councillor Seymour I have my own opinion on that. The only reason that Seymour
could possibly have become distressed is because councillor Sandra Bauer brought the Tweet to Seymour’s
attention. It was she who effectively ‘published’ the comment, or should I say a
mischievously exaggerated version of the comment?
The trial has been reset for 13:30 on 14th February 2012 at Greenwich Court. Seymour
and Bauer are both to be summoned as witnesses. Conservative and Labour councillors
with a common goal. What could that be? The perversion of justice and the subjugation of democracy?
Note: This morning’s District Judge expressed his disquiet
at the police’s continued refusal, even after formal requests by Olly’s
barrister, to return Olly’s wife’s computer equipment etc. He pointed out that no
part of the new charge depended on digital information that is in dispute and
there can be no reason for Bexleyheath police to be so unreasonable. He
regretted that he was not empowered to order its immediate return.
Olly’s barrister said the prosecution was seeking a restraining order on Olly
forbidding him doing anything related to Bexley council, or blogging, or
swearing. Nothing came of that this morning but it serves to illustrate just how
deeply the Stalinist tendency is entrenched within Bexley’s rotten council.
Note dated 17th August 2012. At
an appeal hearing
where both Seymour and Bauer were called as witnesses and cross examined
it became clear that it was Seymour who had dishonestly exaggerated the content of the Tweet
in order to attempt a miscarriage of justice and Bauer had merely sent him a copy and took no part in its embellishment.