A Fool for a Client

It’s a cliché but true all the same, that a person who chooses to represent himself in court, likely as not has a fool for a client. George Barda puts himself forward to demonstrate the truism for the world to see.

What follows is vintage muppetry of the kind we have come to expect from the Occupy crowd. Ill thought through, unfocussed cockwaffle that is supposed to represent the 99% yet is so woolly that it represents no one. May I point out here, that skint though I am, they do not represent me. They haven’t even bothered to ask.

What George did when going to court was make a fool of himself, as in attempting to avoid the camp outside St Paul’s being removed, he asked the judge to take into account their political arguments. He was disappointed when the judge didn’t, pointing out, correctly, that this was outside his jurisdiction.

The law is not interested in some hippyish waffling about government policy being wrong, the law is merely concerned with the matter in hand –  trespass. Were they, or were they not living in a semi-permanent camp on someone else’s property? Yes. That, then, is all that needs to be taken into account.

On the matter of their human right to protest, to make their voices heard, no one is denying them that. No one at all. They have every right to protest. What they do not have the right to do is erect a semi-permanent encampment on someone else’s property. This is not protest, it is trespass and quite rightly they have been evicted. A mite too slowly to get the message across, frankly, but it is done nonetheless and it is right that it was.

If they want to have a protest tomorrow, they can. No one is stopping them.