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Dear shadowminister,

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There is no doubt that those three safeguards you indicate in your last post should be considered minimal precautionary conditions for qualifying Donald the dictator’s actions as constituting “criminal incitement”, i.e. :

« Conduct, words, or other means that urge or naturally lead others to riot, violence, or insurrection »

I would even go further and add a fourth safeguard : there should be at least one credible eyewitness to the alleged criminal actions of the accused.

Of course, in the case of Donald the dictator, there are numerous eyewitnesses and real-life videos of the coded gests and messages he sent to his followers during the months leading up to the storming of the Capitol that resulted in the deaths of seven people, looting, ransacking and damage to the buildings and furniture.

It seems to me that a parallel could be drawn between the role played by Donald the dictator (the US president) and that played by Charles Manson (a white supremacist), in the particularly violent events which resulted, in each case, in the death of seven innocent people, though 50 years separated them and they occurred on opposite sides of the continent.

Neither Donald the dictator nor Charles Manson participated personally in the events that led to the deaths nor did they give specific orders for them to be carried out. Nevertheless, the events and the deaths would not have occurred without them.

In the case of Charles Manson, a jury of seven men and five women convicted him in the Los Angeles County Court in 1971 for the death of seven people (including the film actress Sharon Tate) – despite lack of proof that he had ordered the murders or participated in them.

The prosecution contended that “while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy”. The Los Angeles County district attorney believed that Manson intended to start a race war.

Donald the dictator could find himself in a similar position if criminal charges are brought against him.

That would be for the jury to decide.

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Dear ALTRAV,

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You wrote :

1. « Banjo, please stop fantasising … How you can even begin to take a "manchild" and TRY to sell him as some kind of public enemy number one, is beyond even the most imaginative playwriters reach »
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No problem, ALTRAV …

In 2016, 62,984,825 Americans took that “manchild” and made him president of the United States of America. The playwriters haven’t recovered from that shock yet ! It literally blew their minds away. It was way beyond anything they could have possibly imagined !
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2. « This guy explains it exactly as I have done and believes in the same reasoning as I do » :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-Da4RiITQ
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I could have said that too, ALTRAV, but not just about Sleepy old Joe – about Donald the dictator too ! – and every other leader of every country in the world, ever since the world began, and as long as it continues to exist !

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SR,

14% of Republicans do not make it bipartisan. Trump was acquitted, it was all in vain. Live with it.