The Filton 4 case raises hard questions about protest, law, and where “resistance” ends. Four Palestine Action activists (Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani) broke into Elbit Systems’ factory in Filton, Bristol in Aug 2024. They rammed the fence with a van and caused ~£1.2 million in damage to equipment they say was linked to Gaza operations. Goal: disrupt what they call British complicity in suspected genocide. Jury convicted all four of criminal damage. Samuel Corner was also found guilty of GBH without intent (Section 20) for striking Sgt. Kate Evans twice in the back with a sledgehammer during the chaos, fracturing her spine. She was on restricted duties over a year later, with lasting physical and psychological effects. Very sad outcome. They were not charged or convicted of terrorism offences. No deaths, no bombs, no intent to kill civilians. Yet the judge (Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson) applied a “terrorist connection” enhancement at sentencing under the Sentencing Act 2020. This was decided by the judge alone — not the jury — and kept from the jury during the trial. It led to longer prison terms (combined over 20 years reported) and terrorist-offender status on release. UK law (Terrorism Act 2000 definition, applied via sentencing) covers serious property damage done for a political/ideological cause with intent to influence government or intimidate a section of the public. The judge ruled their action met that test: coordinated raid to pressure policy on arms exports. The activists and supporters argue they were acting from moral duty to stop suspected genocide — a risk states have obligations to prevent under the Genocide Convention and R2P. When the state appears to ignore or enable it, isn’t some resistance justified? Yes, citizens don’t “have to do nothing.” History honours civil disobedience (Gandhi, MLK, suffragettes) when laws enable grave injustice. Peaceful protest, voting, litigation, and mass pressure are core democratic tools. But the Filton 4 pushed past legal limits: breaking and entering, major criminal damage, and (in one case) serious injury to a police officer. Good intentions don’t automatically provide a defence in court. Juries convicted on the facts. The real flashpoint is the terrorist connection label. Many (including human rights groups like Amnesty) call this a step too far — stretching terrorism sentencing to non-lethal protest without jury input. First time applied this way? It risks chilling legitimate direct action on other issues (environment, etc.). Critics see it as the state protecting defence interests over protest rights. Others argue the law was properly applied: you can’t coerce policy via £1M vandalism at a secure site and expect it treated as minor protest. This isn’t a classic “terrorist attack” (no mass violence for fear). It’s political property damage in a bitterly contested conflict. The ICJ Gaza case is ongoing — no final genocide ruling. The case highlights a tension: moral duty to resist perceived complicity vs. rule of law in a democracy. Where do we draw the line so that justified resistance doesn’t slide into unchecked vigilantism? Thoughts? Appeals are expected. Rule of law matters, but so does moral consistency when states fail duties. #Filton4 #ProtestRights #RuleOfLaw

BREAKING: 🇫🇷🇮🇱 Following an investigation, French officials have revealed that Blackcore, an Israel-based organization, has been meddling in numerous elections across the world.

How apt is the Banksy painting today in light of the sentencing of the #Filton4

Something urgently needs to be done about Justice Johnson. He is clearly subverting the law, and partiality is plastered all over this issue. Time for him to go.

People lie down to block the police van taking 4 of the #Filton25 from the courts to the prison after the judge’s resign-able unjust sentencing

There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four. They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent. Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine. But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway. Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided. The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action. By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet. Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway. The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful. If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide. Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.

The Deep State’s Playbook: Regime Change and the Assassination of JFK Introduction The official narrative of John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963—a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting out of personal delusion—has long been dismissed by skeptics as a convenient fiction. Beneath the Warren Commission’s tidy conclusion lies a darker tale: a sprawling cover-up orchestrated by a shadowy "Deep State," a network of entrenched power within government, intelligence, and industry. This essay argues that JFK’s death was not an anomaly but a deliberate act of regime change, a policy tool wielded to protect geopolitical and economic interests. From Oswald’s framing to the silencing of witnesses like J.D. Tippit, Jack Ruby, and Dorothy Kilgallen, the evidence points to a conspiracy that reverberates beyond Dallas, suggesting that news and events have been manufactured elsewhere to similar ends. The Assassination: Unraveling the Official Story The Warren Commission’s report (1964) pinned JFK’s death on Oswald, a former Marine who fired three shots from the Texas School Book Depository. Yet the story crumbles under scrutiny. The "magic bullet" theory—positing one round caused seven wounds across JFK and Governor Connally—defies physics, as critics like Mark Lane (1966) have argued. Acoustic evidence from the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA, 1979) suggested a fourth shot, hinting at a second shooter, possibly from the grassy knoll. Oswald’s own statement—“I’m just a patsy!”—captured on live TV before his murder by Ruby, aligns with his improbable life: a defector to the USSR, a pro-Castro agitator, yet welcomed back to the U.S. without consequence (Summers, 2013). J.D. Tippit’s death, 45 minutes after JFK’s, deepens the mystery. Officially, Oswald shot the Dallas cop during a stop, but witnesses like Acquilla Clemons saw two men, not one (HSCA, 1979). Tippit’s side gigs—working at Austin’s Barbecue, tied to Ruby’s associate Ralph Paul—place him in Dallas’s underworld, suggesting he might have been Oswald’s handler, gathering intel until he became a liability (Groden & Livingstone, 1989). Oswald’s tardiness to a staged “shootout” could explain Tippit’s solo demise, a hit squad stepping in to tie off loose ends. The Cover-Up: A Corporate Conspiracy The assassination reads like a corporate hit. Allen Dulles, sacked as CIA director after the Bay of Pigs yet appointed to the Warren Commission by Lyndon B. Johnson, brokered the operation, leveraging his knowledge of Southeast Asia’s drug trade—a CIA cash cow threatened by JFK’s Vietnam withdrawal plans (NSAM 263, 1963; Prouty, 1992). James Angleton, the CIA’s counterintelligence chief, managed the logistics, his fingerprints on Oswald’s murky file. Hitmen—possibly including James Files, who claimed a grassy knoll shot (Files & Dankbaar, 2003)—executed the kill, their mafia ties echoing CIA plots against Castro. LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, and Dulles sealed the lid: Hoover buried FBI leads, like Oswald’s destroyed note to agent Hosty, while Dulles shaped the commission’s lone-gunman myth (Bugliosi, 2007). Jack Ruby’s fate underscores the ruthlessness. Tied to Oswald and Ferrie through New Orleans circles—where a bizarre cancer-virus project allegedly targeted Castro (Baker, 2010)—Ruby killed Oswald on live TV, then died in prison of lung cancer in 1967, claiming he’d been injected as a silencing tactic. Dorothy Kilgallen, the journalist who interviewed him, hinted at a breakthrough before her 1965 “overdose,” her JFK files vanishing (Shaw, 2016). Ferrie’s 1967 death, days before Jim Garrison’s probe, completes the purge. This wasn’t chaos—it was a machine eliminating threats. Regime Change as Deep State Policy JFK’s assassination wasn’t personal; it was policy. His Vietnam exit, CIA reforms, and potential disruption of covert profits clashed with a Deep State—military-industrial complex, intelligence, and political elites—bent on control. LBJ’s escalation post-Dallas, ballooning troop numbers from 16,000 to over 500,000, secured that agenda (Karnow, 1983). If a president can be removed, lesser targets are easy prey. The Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964), exaggerated to justify war, and Iraq’s phantom WMDs (2003) show how news gets spun to topple regimes or entrench power (Ellsberg, 2002; Wilson, 2004). COINTELPRO’s smears on MLK and Iran-Contra’s half-truths reveal the same hand at work domestically (Gentry, 1991; Walsh, 1997). Conclusion The JFK assassination, with its fabricated lone-gunman tale and brutal cover-up, exposes regime change as a Deep State cornerstone. Oswald was a patsy, Tippit a pawn, Ruby and Kilgallen collateral damage—all sacrificed to preserve a system where presidents are expendable. This isn’t conspiracy for its own sake; it’s a pattern, repeated in manufactured crises and silenced voices. The lesson? Power doesn’t flinch—it adapts, and the news bends to its will. References Baker, J. V. (2010). Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. TrineDay. Bugliosi, V. (2007). Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. W.W. Norton. Ellsberg, D. (2002). Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Viking. Files, J. E., & Dankbaar, W. (2003). Files on JFK. Self-published. Gentry, C. (1991). J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. W.W. Norton. Groden, R. J., & Livingstone, H. E. (1989). High Treason. Berkley Books. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). (1979). Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations. U.S. Government Printing Office. Karnow, S. (1983). Vietnam: A History. Viking. Lane, M. (1966). Rush to Judgment. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Prouty, L. F. (1992). JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. Birch Lane Press. Shaw, M. (2016). The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Post Hill Press. Summers, A. (2013). Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the JFK Assassination. Open Road Media. Walsh, L. E. (1997). Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up. W.W. Norton. Warren Commission. (1964). Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. U.S. Government Printing Office. Wilson, J. C. (2004). The Politics of Truth. Carroll & Graf.

There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.

Sentencing the Innocent - Judge Johnson had proven his fascist credentials through rulings much earlier in the Filton trial than his vicious sentencing. Indeed, He had arguably already shown them when he released Tommy Robinson from a prison sentence, or craigmurray.org.uk/archives/…

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: Rep. Thomas Massie announces he is introducing legislation to force the declassification of all records regarding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty! He demands Washington finally prioritize American lives over the Zionist regime's massive coverup!

The 1960s apartheid govt of South Africa labelled the ANC as terrorists and used a compliant judiciary to suppress their activists and supporters. Today's British govt uses the same tactics against Palestine Action and its supporters. Here's a photo of Judge Quartus de Wet who sentenced Nelson Mandela to life in prison, alongside Judge Jeremy Johnson who yesterday sentenced four Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even though they were never charged with terrorism, because such a charge would've been thrown out by every jury in the land. Johnson would have fitted in very well in South Africa's apartheid regime.

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Rep. Thomas Massie confirms Washington intentionally hid 28 pages of the 9/11 report. He reveals Saudi officials and spies directly helped the hijackers! The establishment kept this secret and blocked victims from suing to protect foreign allies. Treason!

Imagine being charged & convicted of shoplifting & the judge sentences you as though you had committed armed robbery. #Filton4

There is no other issue than this at the moment. (Well in the UK). Until we sort this out nothing else is going to go well.

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes. Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead. As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence. Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

Farage claims the media misrepresents him. That's probably true. He's certainly had more bribes than the £5m one.

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage. Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain. Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial. I explain how he rigged the two trials here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/…

Defence secretary Healey authorised hundreds of UK spy flights for Israeli intelligence during a genocide. He was never seriously questioned on this let alone held to account, and now freely leaves office. The real issue here is our governance: one national media won’t tell.

This is over a year old, but it has still only ever been seen by a minority of my followers, so I hope you will forgive me it you are seeing it again.