From: jgnewsid@outlook.com 
  
 On 17/08/2025 in message <3383783621.8196e2ea@uninhabited.net> Roger 
 Hayter wrote: 
  
 >>The verdict in Mr Jones' case may have the effect of making the 
 >>government think again whether the law will actually be enforceable in 
 >>future, or whether his case was a one-off jury nullification that can be 
 >>ignored as an anomaly 
 > 
 >It is not necessarily jury nullification. The jury may have regarded Mr 
 >Jones' 
 >imprecation as hyperbole without substance; much like "Decapitate TERFs" 
 >signs 
 >at transgender activists' demonstration, not usually prosecuted as most 
 >rational people would suspect that neither the holder of the sign or 
 >his(sic) 
 >audience seriously intended it to be acted upon. We will never know, 
 >unfortunately. 
  
 Is an intention that the words be acted on an important part of the 
 prosecution? I am sure I remember it from previous discussion on Lucy 
 Connolly, this case (or was it a similar one) and Bob Vylan's chant. 
  
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