In Berlin, a judge just sentenced an activist to 8 months in jail for peacefully blocking motorized traffic. https://climatejustice.social/@AufstandLastGen/111101857209685131
In the same city last year, a person was given a suspended sentence for murdering 4 people with an SUV. https://www.berlin.de/gerichte/presse/pressemitteilungen-der-ordentlichen-gerichtsbarkeit/2022/pressemitteilung.1177691.php
@algowatching lemme use my magical mind powers to guess the omitted details: the person that "murdered" the people with a SUV was in an accident by no or small fault of his own while the activist not only actively decided to be illegally a pain in the ass for everyone in the vicinity, but did it enough times previously to deserve that harshened nth offence sentence.
@Amikke "accident" when the doctors told him not to drive? When he chose to drive a 200,000W, 2,500kg toy?
@algowatching is my automatic translator wrongly translating the "Although some doctors had partially incorrectly or at least incompletely informed the accused about his suitability for driving" part? Sorry, I don't speak German.
@Amikke I'm not privy to the details of the consultations (reading between the lines, I assume that the prosecution was not able to find a signed document that said "don't drive"). As for intent, taking amateur control of a 200kW machine in a place full of people should be enough to characterize it (wrote about it here: http://blog.nkb.fr/lethal-speed/). German judges did recognize the intent to kill for people taking their machines at 150kmh in a city – I'm just saying that 50kmh is enough.
@algowatching >amateur
driving licenses make them trained and licensed "amateurs" at the least. And no, classifying someone driving their car normally without exceeding the limits with "intent to kill" is way too much of a mental backflip to be considered seriously. They considered 150km/h that because it's intentionally driving over limit and knowingly endangering others. Please refrain from such mental acrobatics that make all the activists for causes dear to you a laughing stock by association. I see these posts, and then see them some time later presented as "another proof that climate/anti-car-centric-cities activists are oversensitive manipulators". Hell, if I weren't so lucky and learned of the issue from that side I'd be pretty convinced, there's way too much of this, I've literally seen enough of this bullshit to guess the information you're omitting or straight-up twisting before even looking into the articles. This isn't helping your cause, it's harming it.
