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The charge was wilful obstruction and breaching an order that I don't believe was legally set up, on the wilful obstruction of highway it normally works by a police officer asking you to move and then when you don't they can arrest you for not moving. In this case it was shown that the accused...

I heard he has built his own DIY fracking machine and is busy drilling around the Green party offices right now trying to strike black gold.

I am not sure peaceful demonstration counts as 'all you can do to break the law', I would think to do this they would have to take more direct action such as, break into the site, destroy property and machinery and assault police and staff. It does sound like the authorities in charge were...

The charges I believe were wilful obstruction and it was ruled she would have moved if an emergency required it And some obstruction of a public order act, and I believe it was ruled the authorities had not advised anyone their were areas they had approved for demonstration and areas not...

I think that over the years many have been protected, not sure Caroline has any protection as an almost independent MP, looks like the authorities were after her in this case as they didn't actually do anything wrong. Over my lifetime many MP's have gone to the slammer Chris Huhne, Lord...

Good news, I thought the Ken Livingstone piece yesterday on this was very good. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/16/caroline-lucas-criminal-record-fracking-green-mp-shale-gas Sounds like the authorities around the site that day were a little over the top, using and quoting...