The trouble is looking realistically at the situation there is no power
beyond playing the legalistic game within the rules, to force a judges hand,
this is not Columbia or Sicily.
Do you think that a demonstration outside of the courtroom would have
anything but a negative influence on your case, prompting accusations that
you incited this and leaving you vulnerable to a contempt of court action ?
Ghandi and Nelson Mandela went to prison within the system because there was
no power they had to prevent that, however in the long term, the
righteosness of there actions became apparant.
Whether I like it or not, my legal status is mentally incapacitated, it is
on that basis only that I get the miserable minimum of services and benefits
that I do. These terms are legal fictions not descriptions of what you
really are or how you define yourself. Though I have to agree that many
years ago when I faced a criminal charge, I chose not to follow any mental
incapacity route as that could have led to compulsorary treatment and chose
to face the criminal justice system which I feared less. I still had to face
the fact that consequences that my actions were constructed as assualt even
if with mitigating circumstance and provocation and pay the court costs
though, even though I got conditional discharge. I left myself entirely in
the hands of a solicitor whose line of arguing I did not like as it sounded
stereotypical to me at the time.
These days I have very good reason for not wishing to go beyond the law in
any protest, that being because I would lose more by it than anyone would
gain.
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