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Sorry for commenting yet again, but I need to clarify an earlier point. "Indeed, Chambers’ intelligence helps the CPS meet section 127’s limited mens rea threshold. Collins does not require proof that Chambers intended his tweet would threaten Robin Hood Airport; the prosecution doesn’t even have to prove Chambers intended his tweet to be received by anyone connected with or using the airport. Following Collins, the CPS need only demonstrate the tweet was “couched in terms… giving rise to the inference that a risk of [causing menace] must have been recognised” by Chambers." The mens rea threshold is so low that when combined with the false assumption that we're all scared to death of terrorism, it is impossible to accept that the risk of menace was not recognized. Well I don't know about you, but I'm not living my life scared of terrorism. Even when I'm in an airport or on a plane I'm not worried about it. Wary, yes, but not alert to the point of being jumpy. The fact of the matter is that an incorrect context was applied.

5-Dec-2010

0:36 am