Barrister with, er, "interesting" opinions to stand trial

Barrister with, er, "interesting" opinions to stand trial

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anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 29th April 11:31

SK425

1,034 posts

148 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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It's you isn't it. smile


Muncher

12,219 posts

248 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Mad as a box of frogs!

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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SK425 said:
It's you isn't it. smile
I could but dreeeeeaaaaammm of being that coconut fruitloop muesli special souvenir edition moonbat Rosicrucian lalalalala hatstand!

Besides, I'm a big lad, and in bad shape, but not that bad.

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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He appears to have a fixation about submarines. Maybe the RN turned him down. Or perhaps he is related to a certain 'expert' who pops up on here from time to time under various noms de guerre? wink

IanA2

2,762 posts

161 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Why on earth are they prosecuting him? He's clearly bonkers, and a nuisance, but is he dangerous?

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
the German U Boat that kidnapped Maddy McCann (yes, you did hear that right).
rofl

That almost deserves some kind of award.

speedking31

3,543 posts

135 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Tautology of the month clap

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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).





GC8

19,910 posts

189 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Is this in the public interest? Inst he obviously a massive mental?

IanA2

2,762 posts

161 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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).
Maybe....I see the prosecution tried to trick-cycle him but the Judge refused. Makes me wonder if their strategy was a MHA disposal. Wonder what they'll do now.



Rovinghawk

13,300 posts

157 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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?

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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?
If you had access to a U-boat you wouldn't just use it once.

IanA2

2,762 posts

161 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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?
If you had access to a U-boat you wouldn't just use it once.
U would not.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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...



anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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?
If you had access to a U-boat you wouldn't just use it once.
Yeah, have you any idea how much running a 1940s U Boat costs? If I had one I would hire it out for any old secret conspiracy gig going. Kiddy snatching, nuke hauling, Alien Lizard Overlord pleasure cruises, invading Poland, you name it. I hear that Cliven Bundy's got one on his ranch.

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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£20 to a charity of your choice if you can get him to become a PH contributor. After all, one can never have too much tinfoil.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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carinaman said:
£20 to a charity of your choice if you can get him to become a PH contributor. After all, one can never have too much tinfoil.
You'd become jealous.

Rovinghawk

13,300 posts

157 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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La Liga said:
f you had access to a U-boat you wouldn't just use it once.
It's my hypothetical U-boat, I'll do with it as I please.

Don't you oppress me; I know of a barrister daft enough to support me on stuff like this!

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 29th April 2014
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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.