Barrister with, er, "interesting" opinions to stand trial
Discussion
Some of you may have heard of Michael Shrimpton, an actual fer real barrister who blogs on various topics, including the German U Boat that kidnapped Maddy McCann (yes, you did hear that right).
Check out various youchoobs and blogs (on sites such as Veterans Today) by and about him. You may wish to attend your local tin foil emporium before you do so, in order to obtain sufficient supplies.
He has had his collar felt by Commander Plod, in somewhat unusual circumstances, viz:-
http://www.legalcheek.com/2014/04/barrister-to-sta...
So, from reading my stuff here you probably thought that all barristers are total wingnuts already. Hey, maybe you have a point.
Check out various youchoobs and blogs (on sites such as Veterans Today) by and about him. You may wish to attend your local tin foil emporium before you do so, in order to obtain sufficient supplies.
He has had his collar felt by Commander Plod, in somewhat unusual circumstances, viz:-
http://www.legalcheek.com/2014/04/barrister-to-sta...
So, from reading my stuff here you probably thought that all barristers are total wingnuts already. Hey, maybe you have a point.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 29th April 11:31
IanA2 said:
Why on earth are they prosecuting him? He's clearly bonkers, and a nuisance, but is he dangerous?
He may well have capacity. If he's passing on third party intelligence, which he claims, then that doesn't mean the intelligence is accurate, does it? That sounds (partly) like his defence angle. A man in the street may tell me that the queen is an alien. I can treat that as intelligence, but I just grade it as bks (suspected to be false).
La Liga said:
IanA2 said:
Why on earth are they prosecuting him? He's clearly bonkers, and a nuisance, but is he dangerous?
He may well have capacity. If he's passing on third party intelligence, which he claims, then that doesn't mean the intelligence is accurate, does it? That sounds (partly) like his defence angle. A man in the street may tell me that the queen is an alien. I can treat that as intelligence, but I just grade it as bks (suspected to be false).
I can see no public interest in prosecuting this loon. He come across on his blogs and on videos as a pompous buffoon who spins a fantasy that he is a clued up member of some global intelligence community, but his ramblings harm no one as far as I can see.
His blogs are hilarious He will say something bonkers and often rather rude about, say, Obama, or Cameron, or some Judge, or whomever, and then add in "with respect", in a playground style of "no returns".
Some of his legal opinions are published on some websites such as the ones for the so called Metric Martyrs. He represented those guys in Court, and of his arguments Lord Justice Laws made one of his characteristically dry observations, viz:
"Before turning to what was said against him, I should add that in summarising Mr Shrimpton's arguments on implied repeal I have not sought to give any impression of the passionate rhetoric with which they were delivered. It did not advance his clients' case. They are entitled to dispassionate justice according to law."
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/c...
As a footnote to that case, see the editorial discussion on this Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thoburn_v_Sunder...
His blogs are hilarious He will say something bonkers and often rather rude about, say, Obama, or Cameron, or some Judge, or whomever, and then add in "with respect", in a playground style of "no returns".
Some of his legal opinions are published on some websites such as the ones for the so called Metric Martyrs. He represented those guys in Court, and of his arguments Lord Justice Laws made one of his characteristically dry observations, viz:
"Before turning to what was said against him, I should add that in summarising Mr Shrimpton's arguments on implied repeal I have not sought to give any impression of the passionate rhetoric with which they were delivered. It did not advance his clients' case. They are entitled to dispassionate justice according to law."
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/c...
As a footnote to that case, see the editorial discussion on this Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thoburn_v_Sunder...
La Liga said:
Rovinghawk said:
Breadvan72 said:
the German U Boat that kidnapped Maddy McCann (yes, you did hear that right).
I thought the U-boat was the nuke transport- was it a kiddy-snatcher as well?Having read some threads in NPE recently, I beg to differ.
Shrimpton's central theory of most things appears to be that a secret German Intelligence Agency is behind every bad thing that happens anywhere in the World. US school shootings, bombs at Marathons, Korean ferry sinkings, some bloke nicked your parking space at work, you name it. All down to secret German spy networks. See also: fishcake.
Shrimpton's central theory of most things appears to be that a secret German Intelligence Agency is behind every bad thing that happens anywhere in the World. US school shootings, bombs at Marathons, Korean ferry sinkings, some bloke nicked your parking space at work, you name it. All down to secret German spy networks. See also: fishcake.
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