Free Ramsay Scott - Update 2
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on 25th September 2009
Update 1 added the top question
Update 2 adds the final sentence
If I was forced by Society to do it, how can Ramsay Scott be prevented by the same Society from being in the position of possibly doing it?
3 years and 9 months for Ramsay Scott
Written by David Rawcliffe
Friday, 25 September 2009 06:02
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/justice-and-civil-liberties/3-years-and-9-months-for-ramsay-scott-200909254181/
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Take pity on Ramsay Scott, a 21 year-old man sentenced on Wednesday to 3 years and 9 months in prison for firearms possession. The student, who has been diagnosed as suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome or a schizoid personality disorder, had bought £20,000 worth of gun components on the internet, and amassed a collection including pistols, sub-machine gun parts and ammunition.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Scott had ever harmed anyone else with these weapons, nor that he had any intention of doing so. As Lord Uist remarked to the High Court in Edinburgh on sentencing him:
It is probably impossible to say what, if anything, you would have done with the weapons had the police not intervened.
He explained that Scott’s was guilty not because he had actually hurt someone else, but because:
There must have been at least the possibility that you would have used them to cause injury to others
UNSNIP
“There must have been at least the possibility that you would have used them to cause injury to others. “
On me, thalidomide monster, the Heidelberg quacks forced a hook 40 years ago when I was seven.
Yes, everybody was afraid of me, But still, they forced me.
They didn’t tell that I could have used that hook to cause injury to others.
No they forced me.
And one year later, I had to run against a car
Both femurs broken and 6 weeeks of coma
And after that, they still forced me.
Témoignage thalidomide : Les Monstres de Heidelberg
par Ivo Cerckel
mercredi 2 septembre 2009
http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/temoignage-thalidomide-les-60989
Free Ramsay Scott!
See also the comments (not mine) and all the arguments in the article and in the comments at the Adam Smith Institute link above.
Ivo Cerckel
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