flag that anarchists have faith in judges

The anarchist paper Edinburgh Black Flag is shitty in attitude, and has not even got a base address that it's published from or any regular place of finding it any more frequently than annually. For it was at the Meadows Festival, annual, that I picked up one.

Its attack on Justice For Innocent Men Scotland, where it sides with dangerous dogma that defending men from injustice is anti-women, contradicts absurdly the usual healthy scepticism of the justice system in radical writings. This is the type of literature you expect to see call out court short cuts or politicised contrivance of charges. Indeed this is self-named anarchist literature which means against laws. Yet instead, without any analysis, it calls it "fearmongering" to call out easy miscarriages of justice in sexual cases, or to say there is a witch hunt, and it depends the sections 274/275 powers for judges to deny applications to present defence evidence that socially embarrasses the accuser. Completely looking glass.

At JIMS's demo at parliament 2 days before, rape/abuse survivors had banners that they are not defended by jailing the innocent !! There is no logic at all in claiming, in one line unsupported by any analysis, that a justice campaign is bound to turn into misogyny. Look at the Salmond case followed by the present SNP scandals. This is another case among so many where radicals have worshipped dogma to a point that betrays the common sense of ordinary folks' situation !

wi' Wallace untold

In seeking to post this around facebook, it was astonishing to discover the Scottish Lib Dems now have no public page, and the UK ones still after a day had no mention of Jim Wallace's passing. even as a former Deputy PM, in the first Scottish government, he shared in an ordinary grassroots experience of street campaigning in the Brexit ref 10 years ago.

His passing removes a witness to how ordinary Remain campaigners got messed around by our own side in the Brexit ref. In the polling day flyering at Edinburgh Haymarket station. I was in it, we were completely left to do it when we were in numbers, in the morning peak. Then, when numbers reduced and a couple of us stuck at it after our colleagues had finished, we got targetted by the station manager then the police, who claimed completely different activity boundaries than our own organisers had told us.

After which our organisers when told about it would not challenge the police's action, and nor would the Lib Dem from their nearby office who was flyering beside me and who favoured respectability even when pushed around instead of arguing jurisdictions to defend the election activity info our organisers had brought us there by telling us. Then Jim Wallace was there in the evening peak and was allowed unbothered to do it in a place where the morning police had not allowed us to do it.

Our (ex)organisers never answered any communication from me ever again after our polling day activity was over, and despite all the controversy around whether the ref was held fairly, I could never get anyone to take up + make use of this story about Jim Wallace.