\u2018I\u2019m not sentencing you on the basis that you are anti-Semitic, I\u2019m not sentencing you on the basis that you are a Holocaust denier,\u201d said Westminster District judge Michael Snow, after doing exactly that.<\/p>\n
This was Snow\u2019s confusing message<\/a> to 56-year-old Alison Chabloz, a political commentator who was dragged to court for stating that the Holocaust is an \u201ceternal cash cow\u201d on a podcast. She will be serving four and a half months in jail.<\/p>\n While Judge Snow has no legal basis for jailing a person specifically for comments critical of the Holocaust, he was able to exploit an open-ended and subjective \u201cgross offense\u201d law to punish Chabloz for comments questioning the Auschwitz gas chamber narrative and how the Jewish community uses the Holocaust story for political and financial gain.<\/p>\n The vaguely defined \u201cgross offense\u201d law is often exploited by political actors to suppress critics of privileged groups and powerful interests. A police officer is currently being tried in British court for the \u201cgross offense\u201d of sending a George Floyd joke<\/a> in a private WhatsApp chat. Free speech in the United Kingdom is not a guaranteed right.<\/p>\n Snow\u2019s treatment of Chabloz fits a pattern. Many believe the district judge is primarily concerned with being a thuggish proxy for the powerful rather than enforcing the law and protecting people\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n One high profile example is judge Snow\u2019s behavior while overseeing the Julian Assange case in 2019. In order to please the US Department of Justice, Snow ruled that the Australian journalist be held in custody to be tortured in solitary confinement at a high security prison.<\/p>\n During the trial \u2014 ostensibly over Assange jumping bail in 2012 \u2014 Snow taunted<\/a> and berated the prisoner of conscience, referring to him as \u201claughable\u201d and a \u201cnarcissist.\u201d During one hearing, he demanded Assange \u201cget over to the US\u201d and \u201cget on with your life.\u201d Former ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray has referred to judge Snow as a corrupt, politically motivated \u201cdisgrace.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The climate for open discussion and social criticism in Britain is virtually indistinguishable from third world totalitarian nations. Judge Snow and other high ranking figures in the UK know the public stigma of running kangaroo courts that imprison people based on what wealthy Jews say offends them, but in 2021, these \u201cliberals\u201d no longer care what the people think.<\/p>\n (Republished from National Justice<\/a> by permission of author or representative)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n