I think Great Britain can be considering a formerly great nation. After all, a police officer arrested this person, a police sergeant or captain went along, a district attorney decided to press charges, people in his office helped him prepare them, a judge allowed the case to proceed, and, finally, a jury proceeded to convict him. Afterwards, the bailif took him to a jail where prison guards locked him up.

I know it isn't possible to quit your job every time something unjust comes along, but there are a lot of people with dirt on their hands from this. As far as we can tell, nobody did the right thing. Even the jury, which should have acquited, listened to the jury instructions telling them they had to convict and did so.


William Wallace must be rolling in his grave right now.