Peter Dow is a Scottish scientist and a republican socialist whose legal human rights are cruelly violated by the police and courts in Aberdeen, where he lives. Peter Dow's political defence blog publishes the truth about the wrongful and unjust royalist arrests, prosecutions, convictions and punishments he endures.
At today's (25th March 2025) diet of debate in Court 3 of Aberdeen Sheriff Court presided over by Sheriff Johnston, she stated her decision at the end of the hearing but she was speaking too quickly for me to note down what she was saying and I missed most of it, though I did note that she erroneously didn't sustain my objection.
Sheriff Johnston did explain that her decision would be noted in the minutes, the record of the case and that I could ask the sheriff clerk's office for a copy of those case minutes, which I did, later, by email. Even if Sheriff Johnston's decision was completely wrong it is still of interest to me as to what actually she wrote into the case record.
I have to note that I was not impressed by Sheriff Johnston's handling of the debate diet, where she made some rather gross errors in my opinion.
Sheriff Johnston didn't want to hear me speak the word "Paki" whose use is at the heart of this case - the crux of the matter. She seemed to be prejudiced about my use of the word "Paki" in court, even when I made it clear I meant the word as a shortened form to refer to Pakistanis, the Pakistani diaspora or Pakistan as the case may be. The word "Paki" per se seemed to jar with her sensibilities regardless of what I meant by the word.
Her response to my use of the word "Paki" seemed Pavlovian, as if she was behaving in a conditioned manner, conditioned to censor any utterance of the word regardless of the context.
Sheriff Johnston insisted that the facts referred to in my "Minute for the Accused" could not be considered at this stage of the proceedings which didn't seem to mesh with Sheriff Foulis's previous decision to invite me to submit an Application by Minute which, as far as I can see from the legislation, which I can quote even if I am not a lawyer, is supposed to be an application in a form which consists of a statement of facts as well as the other items.
CHAPTER 14 APPLICATIONS BY MINUTE Form of minute 14.2. A minute to which this Chapter applies shall contain- (a) a crave; (b) where appropriate, a condescendence in the form of a statement of facts supporting the crave; and (c) where appropriate, pleas-in-law.
Although Sheriff Johnston claimed to have read my "Minute for the Accused" before the hearing, she didn't seem to display any understanding or appreciation of my usage of the word "Paki", as detailed in the document and she wouldn't allow me to read through it which would have taken about 45 minutes - apparently much too long for a Sheriff who had already made her mind up after a quick read through on her own, before the hearing.
A prejudiced sheriff and a sheriff who is not interested in the relevant facts of a case is not a good sheriff, in my opinion, sorry, so I don't want Sheriff Johnston to have any more dealings with this case if that is possible?
Today's was a very unsatisfactory hearing which I don't think advanced the cause of justice one iota.
Today, I was finally allowed a 2nd session of access to the case papers disclosing the following.
WITNESS STATEMENTS (and I quote)
Witness 2 - Kaukab Stewart. Witness is the Minister for Equalities of Scotland. No statement has been obtained from the witness.
Witness 4 - Humza Yousaf. Witness is the former first minister of Scotland. He is now a member of the Scottish Parliament. No witness statement has been taken.
EVIDENTIAL SEARCH WARRANT
Sheriff Kevin McCarron, Sheriff of Lothian and Borders, granted the warrant craved by the petition of procurator fiscal depute Ewan Wilson-McKay on the 16th December 2024.
The petition says that my tweets on X were reported to the police by "persons employed by the Scottish Parliament."
WITNESS STATEMENT (and I quote)
Witness 1 - Darren Steadwood. STATEMENT "My name is Darren Steadwood and I am employed at the Scottish Parliament as an Information Security Analyst. I have worked in the role since June 2024. My duties include monitoring the social media accounts of Members of the Scottish Parliament for posts and messages which are offensive, threatening or motivated by hate. In order to carry out this role, I use a software tool called COSAIN, which proactively searches social media platforms for key words or phrases within posts, based on parameters set by me. I then read the posts, make my own assessment and if I deem it to be necessary, report the post to the police."
So it looks like the Scottish Parliament has set up its own parliamentary Gestapo / Stasi unit to hunt down Scots tweeting adversely about any MSP to have us taken political prisoners.
So MSPs don't have to lift a finger or make any statement or complaint to police about anyone but nevertheless the police state will get busy automatically rounding up Scots like me for daring to express an "offensive" opinion on X.
Silly me, everyone should know not to offend the Gestapo / Stasi in a fascist police state whose head of state is Not-My-King Charlie-boy.đ
I've just emailed in to Aberdeen Sheriff Court my "Minute for the accused", reproduced below, with a view to having it lodged tomorrow 10th March 2025 with the court's case papers.
Not sure why they call it a "minute"? Maybe because it only takes them a minute to decide it is TOO LONG DID NOT READ? đ
IN THE SHERIFF COURT OF GRAMPIAN, HIGHLAND AND ISLANDS
AT
ABERDEEN
MINUTE FOR THE ACCUSED
in
Procurator Fiscal, ABERDEEN
against
ALASTAIR PETER DOW, B.Sc.(Hons)
SCS Ref: SCS/2025-003979
Local Ref: ABE/2025-000145
PF Ref: AB25000403-001
Police Ref: PSSECR53W1224
SCRO No: S129419/83N
Date lodged - 10th March 2025
Lodged by the accused representing himself
CONTENTS
MINUTE FOR THE ACCUSED
CRAVE
STATEMENT OF FACTS
THE ACCUSED
MEANINGS
X (TWITTER)
ISLAMIC TERROR
DEROGATING
TERROR TARGETS
SECRET PAKISTAN
PAKI POWER GRAB
DECLARATION
PLEAS-IN-LAW
CRAVE
The procurator fiscal depute's complaint is against certain of the accused's published posts on X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) using the accused's account "@_Peter_Dow", as identified by uncontroversial evidence of the accused's posts which have included the word "Paki".
The charges falsely and maliciously allege that the accused acted in a "racially aggravated manner", while the accused insists that he meant the word "Paki" as short for "Pakistani" without intending any racist connotation.
The accused's complained-about posts on X should be understood in the context of the relevant facts as stated below and as otherwise presented to the court via links to online content - facts about Islamic terrorism and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, facts about the Pakistani diaspora (including members of the Scottish Parliament Humza Yousaf & Kaukab Stewart) and facts about other Muslims.
The accusedâs complained-about posts on X are adversarial posts in the nature of the cut and thrust of democratic political debate about how the government should better defend the people from Islamic terrorism, from Muslim violence against women and girls etc..
The accused's posts on X are adequately moderated by X site rule administrators requiring no such anti-democratic interference by the police, prosecutors and the courts.
The accused has cause to defend his human rights, his freedom of expression and our democracy in Scotland against the procurator fiscal depute's prosecution.
At the first diet of the case on the 15th January 2025, before Sheriff Wark, the accused objected to the competency and relevancy of the complaint and the proceedings thereon, according to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 144, subsection (4) before pleading âNOT GUILTYâ to the charge.
At an intermediate diet of the case on 25th February 2025, before Sheriff Foulis, the accused applied for leave of the court, on cause shown, to object under the same Section 144, but under subsection (5), this being a âfuture dietâ, not the first diet.
The Sheriff suggested that the accused could withdraw his plea of âNOT GUILTYâ which he did. The Sheriff further suggested that the accused could lodge a minute such as this for debate at the next diet which the accused agreed to do.
The accused craves the court on cause shown in this minute to grant leave to object to the competency and relevancy of the complaint and the proceedings thereon, according to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 144, subsection (5).
The accused further craves the court to dismiss the prosecutionâs objectionable complaint and the proceedings thereon, according to justice.
CONDESCENDENCE SUPPORTING THE CRAVE
STATEMENT OF FACTS THE ACCUSED
Fact. The accused is a scientist. See the photographic evidence of the accused's science qualifications - graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a degree of Bachelor of Science.
from which this quote - "From 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022, I was a scientist living in Aberdeen, Scotland and publishing my science advice on the internet which, if followed, could have saved many lives from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Before, during and since that period, the incompetent institutions of the UK, including the devolved Scottish Government and its institutions, had ignored, did ignore and still do ignore my advice and that of many other scientists.
I have even been taken political prisoner and repeatedly threatened with such for doing my duty to promote my high quality scientific advice as more worthy of consideration than the prejudices of UK officialdom, such as police officers, judges and government ministers."
So 10,000 Scots died unnecessarily because the Scottish Government would rather prosecute a scientist than follow the science.
Fact. The accused is a human rights defender. The accused featured in a chapter of the Scottish-produced human rights documentary, "The New Ten Commandments" which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008 and was later broadcast on BBC 2 Scotland. See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Ten_Commandments View that 10-minute chapter as a YouTube video titled "Scottish republican socialist Peter Dow, author and protester"
Fact. The accused is not a racist. See production - photographic evidence of the accused's socialising with black friends and acquaintances.
MEANINGS
Fact. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a country, not a "race". Pakistani is a nationality / national identity, not a "race". Islam is a religion, not a "race". The accused's criticisms of Pakistan, Pakistanis, the Pakistani diaspora, Islam or Muslims do not feature unscientific notions of "race" in any shape or form.
'PAKI' IN PROSE Fact. The etymology of the word "Paki" was as a clipping or shortened form of the word "Pakistani", with no change of meaning. Originally there was no racist connotation to the use of the word. See - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Paki#Etymology
Fact. Many nationalities have clipped forms - "Brit" is a shorter word for "Briton", "Aussie" is short for "Australian", "Argie" is short for Argentinian, "Jap" for "Japanese" and so on. Finding or adducing any such use of the shortened form of a nationality is not prima facie evidence of racism nor of acting in a racially aggravated manner and is not a proper basis upon which to found a competent arrest, warrant or prosecution.
âPAKIâ JUST MEANS PAKISTANI Fact. The accused insists that by his use of the word "Paki" in X posts, here and elsewhere, he just means "Pakistani" or "Pakistani diaspora" or "Pakistan" as the case may be. The accused is not a racist so does not use that word nor any other word as a racist slur. The accused is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty and so the accusedâs use of the word "Paki" must be presumed to be without racist intent until proved otherwise.
At trial it would be up to the prosecution to adduce a sufficiency of evidence to prove a racist intention but since there is no prima facie evidence whatsoever of racism on the accused's part, the charge of "racially aggravated" cannot stick to the accused, as far as a Scottish court of law is concerned, though a Pakistani lynch mob may take exception to any innocent use of the word âPakiâ.
BRITISH, PAKI AND PROUD Fact. In 2005, the BBC aired a documentary called "British, Paki and Proud". "The BBC programme followed the use of the term 'Paki' over the decades. Although it was deemed acceptable in mainstream television coverage in the seventies and early eighties, for many British Asians today it remains a totally unacceptable form of racist abuse." See -â'Proud of the word "Paki"?'â https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/features/2005/03/paki.shtml The accused is of an older generation which watched television in the 1970s and early 80s. Our generation was not and we are not a "racist" generation.
We did not and we do not use the word "Paki" as a form of racist abuse against British Asians who were welcomed to our shores after arriving legally.
British Asians picking an anti-racist fight with a non-racist such as the accused for correctly using the word âPakiâ to mean âPakistaniâ, would be barking up the wrong tree.
Stand up to racism, of course, but do so intelligently, not by lashing out at the accused on a misconceived pretext.
SNOWFLAKE Fact. "Snowflake" is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions. See - âSnowflake (slang)â https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang) This complaint has an unwarranted sense of entitlement to misrepresent what the accused means by âPakiâ, cites witnesses who are overly emotional and easily offended by the accusedâs insignificant posts on X and who are unable to deal democratically with the accusedâs opposing opinion.
X (TWITTER)
X DOESN'T BAN "PAKI" Fact. X site rules do not ban the use of the word "Paki", though X offers a facility for any user to "mute" any word or phrase so that posts with that word or phrase are not presented for reading to the user who has so muted the word or phrase. See - https://help.x.com/en/using-x/advanced-x-mute-options
X also allows any user the ability to mute or similarly "block" all posts from "@_Peter_Dow" or from any other user so that none of the muted or blocked user's posts are presented to the user who has muted or blocked the other user. See - https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-mute
Further, X offers a "report" facility for users to report posts to X site administrators which potentially may have violated X site rules and terms of service, for examination and for X to consider appropriate moderation action. See - https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/x-report-violation
Therefore X offers several good and efficient options for any user who doesn't want to read any more of the accused's "@_Peter_Dow" posts or indeed any posts using the word "Paki".
Viewing the X site is entirely voluntary and anyone is free not to visit and read the X site at all.
As the saying goes, if you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen.
Dramatic and malicious complaints to the police about the accusedâs posts on X waste the time of the police, the courts and the accused, without any cause to do so.
MUSLIM VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS Fact. After the Iranian Islamic revolution, in 1983, 10 Bahai women were executed in Shiraz, Iran - hanged after refusing to renounce their non-Muslim faith. Such is the "glory of Islam" for which Muslims fight. See - âExecuted Women Haunt, Inspire Iranian Baha'is 40 Years Laterâ https://www.voanews.com/a/executed-women-haunt-inspire-iranian-bahais-40-years-on-/7146282.html
Fact. The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. See - âYazidi genocide - Violence against Yazidi women and girlsâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi_genocide#Violence_against_Yazidi_women_and_girls
MUSLIMS KILL SCOTS GIRL Fact. Islamic terrorists have killed Scots outside of Scotland, for example the murder of Eilidh MacLeod, a 14-year-old girl from Scotland - one of 22 innocent people killed by an Islamist terrorist suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena in 2017. See - âManchester Arena Inquiry Bomb tore mother of victim's world apartâ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58711302
DEROGATING
Fact. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has twice been suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations - the first time from 18 October 1999 to 22 May 2004 and the second time from 22 November 2007 to 22 May 2008 - both times as Pakistan suffered under the Musharraf dictatorship.
Suspension from the Commonwealth is a derogation from full membership. Suspending Pakistan was a derogating act but the Commonwealth was not acting in a "racially aggravated manner", nor could any prosecutor for Pakistan have competently charged the Commonwealth with such an erroneous charge.
Fact. In October 2024, there was a call from Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations to Suspend Pakistan from the Commonwealth Over Blasphemy Laws & Human Rights Violations.
& âOpen Letter to the Commonwealth Secretariatâ https://eutoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Open-letter-to-the-Commonwealth-Secretariat.pdf Suspension is a derogating act but these human rights NGOs do not call for action "in a racially aggravated manner" as prosecutors for Pakistan could maliciously allege in a Pakistani court or even perhaps in a Scottish court misgoverned by or for the Pakistani diaspora, where any prosecutorial nonsense such as this can be mouthed at the tax-payersâ expense.
What a nightmare it would be for human rights NGOs to be prosecuted in Scotland falsely charged for seeking to suspend Pakistan from the Commonwealth in an allegedly "racially aggravated manner".
TERROR TARGETS
FORMER PAKI PM BHUTTO ASSASSINATED Fact. In 2007, after a political rally in Rawalpindi, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. The Salafi jihadist militant group al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, although the involvement of the Pakistani Taliban and rogue elements of the intelligence services were also widely suspected. See - âBenazir Bhutto - Assassinationâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto#Assassination:_December_2007 Musharraf may have had a hand in Bhutto's assassination too.
PRIZE-WINNER MALALA SHOT Fact. In October 2012, the Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year old girl targeted for her prize-winning female education rights activism in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. She survived with brain damage after treatment in England where she stayed to continue her education at Oxford University. See - âMalala Yousafzai - Murder attemptâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai#Murder_attempt & âMalala Yousafzai - Free Pakistanâ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngAIoxzIBzM
Pakistan's brightest and best like Benazir Bhutto and Malala Yousafzai are targeted by Islamic terrorists for the glory of Islam, which is a constitutional obligation for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan too. As far as the accused is concerned, Malala is very welcome to Britain as are other Pakistani and Afghani refugees who are fleeing from Taliban terror and violence.
Refugees are welcome here but the accused does not welcome random Muslim migrants who bring Islamic terror and violence with them to our country.
PAKI PULL-FACTOR Fact. The UK is home to the largest Pakistani community in Europe, with the population of British Pakistanis exceeding 1.6 million based on the 2021 Census, including 72 thousand in Scotland, outnumbering Gaelic speakers in Scotland. See - "British Pakistanis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pakistanis British Pakistanis are not, by and large, refugees from the Islamic terrorism of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan but are mostly a Muslim migrant community from which Islamic terrorist organisations world-wide can recruit new terrorists.
PAKI HELL Fact: The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has long advised Britons against travel to Pakistan, except in limited circumstances such as the Pakistani diaspora visiting family or avoiding particularly dangerous areas etc. See - âPakistan travel adviceâ - https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/pakistan Nowhere and no-one in the Islamic hellhole of Pakistan is truly safe from terror.
QC MISLED INTO PAKI PERIL Fact: In March 2012, Paul McBride QC travelled to Pakistan accompanied by Aamer Anwar where Mr McBride died suddenly with claims from the Pakistani authorities that his death was "not suspicious" / "of natural causes", but without the scrutiny of an independent forensic science autopsy after the sudden death of a homosexual, non-Muslim, British man in a homophobic Islamic country after meeting with Pakistani army officials who were secretly at war with the UK. See - âPaul McBride death - QC refused medical aid days before deathâ https://www.scotsman.com/news/paul-mcbride-death-qc-refused-medical-aid-days-before-death-1640565 Since Pakistanis try to kill Pakistanâs own brightest and best then we can assume that they would have no compunction against killing Scotlandâs brightest and best either.
PAKI PLAYACTOR Fact. Aamer Anwar appeared grief-stricken at Paul McBride's Christian funeral. Was Mr Anwar virtue-signalling that the Pakistani diaspora was not to blame for misleading a gay, non-Pakistani, non-Muslim British citizen into a trap laid for him by bigoted, belligerent Pakistanis? If so, Mr Anwarâs performance deserves a BAFTA.
PAKIS PRESSURED TO PERMIT WAR ON TERROR Fact. Following an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States of America in 2001, the UK military joined American allies in a coalition to wage a war on terror, hunting down the Islamic terrorist organisation responsible who were based in Afghanistan. The preferred land supply route to Afghanistan was via Pakistan which was permitted after the US pressured Pakistan not to dare to obstruct US military operations. See "War in Afghanistan (2001 - 2021)â https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)
Western intelligence discovered that Pakistan was secretly aiding the Taliban to kill our soldiers while deceptively seeming to cooperate with the coalition forces.
The Afghan war is over. Our soldiers fought and died for a most worthy cause for which we are grateful. We will remember them.
We should also remember the treachery of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and beware the lies of Pakistanâs diplomats.
PAKIS PLEA FOR FOREIGN AID Fact. Pakistan has received a lot of undeserved foreign aid. The United Kingdom pledged ÂŁ665 million to Pakistan from 2009 to 2013. Between 2014 and 2019, Pakistan was the largest recipient of direct UK foreign development aid. See - âForeign aid to Pakistan - United Kingdomâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Pakistan#United_Kingdom
Other poorer countries lost out on foreign aid because so much foreign aid was being wasted on such an ungrateful, greedy and treacherous country as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
PERFIDIOUS PAKIS Fact. For decades, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has secretly sponsored Islamic terrorist organisations including the Taliban. Pakistan's government denies its responsibility for Taliban attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan but top Western intelligence officers and diplomats discount such Pakistani denials, describing Pakistan as playing a double game - having superficially supported coalition forces in Afghanistan while actually opposing the coalition via secret support for the Taliban.
In 2011, the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden was hunted down by the CIA and US special forces and killed in Pakistan where he was found in a safe house close to the Pakistani military academy in Abbottabad. The hunt for Bin Laden had to be covertly organised by the US and all progress kept secret from the Pakistani authorities who were not trusted not to tip off Bin Laden as the hunt closed in on his location.
PAKI POLITICIANS Fact. There are dozens of British Pakistanis who are notable in politics. Wikipedia lists more than 60, including 5 current and former members of the Scottish Parliament. See - "List of British Pakistanis - Politics" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Pakistanis#Politics SNP Pakistani politicians tend to self-identify as "Scottish" Pakistanis.
PAKI MINISTER PUSHES PAKI DEALS Fact. In 2013, Scottish Government External Affairs Minister and Scottish Pakistani Humza Yousaf visited Pakistan to praise Scotland's Pakistani diaspora and to develop a closer relationship between Scotland and Pakistan. See - âBuilding links with Pakistanâ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/building-links-with-pakistan As Scottish soldiers in Afghanistan were still being killed by Pakistani-sponsored terrorists, the Taliban, "a closer relationship" may have emerged between Scottish drug dealers and Pakistani organised crime, trafficking heroin and arms, making a killing in Scotland.
PAKIS TRIPLED SCOTLANDâS DRUG DEATHS Fact. The problem of drug deaths in Scotland got decidedly worse in the years after Yousaf's official Scottish Government ministerial visit to Pakistan in 2013. Drug deaths in Scotland rose to a peak in 2020 of triple the death rate of any other country in Europe, after Yousaf's appointment in 2018 as the Scottish Government's Justice Secretary responsible for enforcing drug laws. Coincidence? Aye, right. See - âScotlandâs drug deaths still worst in Europeâ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5ll3ler7o
MUSLIM MOB RULE IN GLASGOW Fact. In May 2021, a Muslim-led crowd in Kenmure Street, Glasgow surrounded police to blockade a UK Home Office immigration removal van. After an extended stand-off, during which Aamer Anwar arrived to negotiate with police, an agreement allowed the 2 detained men to be escorted to a nearby mosque, with crowds following them, where they were let go. See - âKenmure Street protestsâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure_Street_protests & See "Protest in Kenmure Street, Glasgow | The Firm | BBC Scotland" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9LX224R_Y
This potentially dangerous standoff was resolved peacefully if not strictly lawfully nor by the book but what is next to be decided by Muslim-mob-rule in Glasgow?
The accused shoulders a political duty to serve democratically by social media posts and otherwise with a view to helping to ensure that neither Glasgow, nor elsewhere in this country, ever suffers a Muslim mob to lynch someone, Pakistani-style, for "blasphemy", "adultery" or any other non-crime act which may offend a Muslim mobâs sensibilities.
PAKI IS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHER SCOTS Fact. Kaukab Stewart is a Pakistani who was born in Pakistan according to the Scottish Government's Equalities Minister webpage. See - âMinister for equalitiesâ https://www.gov.scot/about/who-runs-government/cabinet-and-ministers/minister-for-equalities/ Kaukab Stewart is free to post on X without fear of arrest and prosecution for freely expressing herself, as are other ministers of the Scottish Government but the accused is apparently not afforded an equal human right of freedom of expression by the police and the prosecutors who are misgoverned by the Scottish Government. Some Scots are "more equal" than others it seems.
The Pakistani diaspora misleads us about the Islamic Republic's terrorism & dependency on foreign aid, to hide the terrible truth that typically when Muslims left Pakistan it was not to get away from Islam - but so that their Muslim descendants could ruin other countries for the glory of Islam, just as Islam ruined Pakistan.
This motion by Kaukab Stewart congratulating Pakistan is a pack of Pakistani lies, painting a ridiculously rosy picture of a terribly misgoverned country whose Islamic imperialism is a menace to the free world.
The accused finds it naive and perverse for the Scottish Government to appoint a Scottish Pakistani, Kaukab Stewart, as Equalities Minister expecting her successfully to lead the defence of women and girls against horrific Muslim violence.
As a defender of women's human rights, the accused opposes the appointment of Kaukab Stewart as Equalities minister because she is so fulsome in her praise of Pakistan regardless of Pakistan's role in sponsoring the Taliban's violence against women and girls.
Stewart disgracefully ignores Pakistan's failure to defend Pakistani & Afghani women and girls from Muslim violence and so Scots should expect her to excuse her own failure to defend women and girls from Muslim violence too.
The accused will not give any Pakistani, least of all a Scottish Pakistani Government minister, a free pass for failing to defend women and girls from Islamic terrorism, Sharia law or Muslim lynch mobs.
Stewart should resign or be sacked as a Scottish government minister, in the accused's humble political opinion.
PRINCIPAL PAKI Fact. âI am thankful to Allah for my success" said Pakistani-born Aisha Anwar in 2023 when interviewed after her first appointment as Sheriff Principal in 2020. See - âAisha Anwar: Scotlandâs first female Sheriff Principal(Judge) of Pakistani originâ https://enn.aimsinternational.co.uk/aisha-anwar/ So that's now Scots in 1/6th of Scotland's Sheriffdoms subject to the misfortune of Pakistani / Muslim misrule, on appeal. 1/6th was quite the coup for Pakistan considering that Pakistanis only number about 1/75th of Scotlandâs population (1/40th of Britain's population).
PAKI PROMOTED Fact. In March 2023 Aisha Anwar was appointed Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin from her previous post of Sheriff Principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway. See - âSheriff Principal Anwar - Law Society of Scotlandâ https://www.lawscot.org.uk/people/sheriff-principal-anwar/ Weegies beware.
PAKI FIRST MINISTER Fact. In March 2023, Humza Yousaf stood for election as leader of the SNP and he won. SNP MSPs elected Yousaf to be sworn in as First Minister of Scotland by the Supreme Court of Scotland where Yousaf was accompanied by Aamer Anwar. The accused published a criticism of Mr Yousaf's unsuitability for the political leadership of Scotland. See - the accused's blog post "SNP Leadership Election".. https://peterdow.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/snp-leadership-election/ The accused emailed a PDF of this blog post to police and a print-out of the same was included in the prosecutions' case papers, when disclosed to the accused.
PAKI PRIME MINISTER MEETS PAKI FM Fact. In 2023, the then First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, was interviewed by Pakistani journalists after meeting with the Pakistani Prime Minister in London. Mr Yousaf was recorded thanking Pakistanis who had congratulated him on his election as First Minister, stating that Pakistan was his fatherland and his motherland and stating that he saw himself as "... Pakistani too".
PAKI FM PROVISIONS HAMAS TERROR Fact. In 2023, after Islamic terrorists had invaded Israel from Gaza killing nearly 1200 people and taking 251 hostages, the Pakistani First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, rewarded the Islamic terrorism by paying a total of ÂŁ750,000 to Hamas-run Gaza via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Hamas can easily divert UNRWA dual-use supplies as materiel for Islamic terrorism. See - âOctober 7 Hamas-led attack on Israelâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel & âFunds sent to Gaza: FOI releaseâ https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202300386454/ Scots were roped into funding Islamic terrorism against our will.
DECLARATION
Fact. In March 2023, the accused penned this declaration, inspired by the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.
DECLARATION OF SCOTLAND
For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive,
never will we on any conditions
be brought under Muslim rule.
It is in truth not for glory, nor riches nor honours
that we are fighting,
but for freedom â for that alone,
which no honest man gives up but with life itself
28th March 2023
Scots cannot be expected to submit to Muslim-rule, which is neither impartial nor capable of maintaining authority, nor can Muslim-rule be trusted not to interfere with any democratic debate between Scots especially when debating the deadly dangers of Islamic terrorism supported by Islamic countries such as Pakistan.
That is one very good reason why the accused did oppose the election of Humza Yousaf as First Minister of Scotland, why the accused does oppose the appointment of Kaukab Stewart as a Minister of the Scottish Government and why the accused also opposes the appointment of Aisha Anwar as a Sheriff Principal.
The accused would likewise oppose the appointment of any other Muslim to any other ministerial or judicial office in Scotland. The accused also advises tactical voting to defeat the Muslim candidate in any election.
PLEAS-IN-LAW
No prima facie evidence of any crime
The procurator fiscal depute in adducing the accused's use of the word "Paki" with uncontroversial evidence has not thereby produced prima facie evidence of the accused acting in a racially aggravated manner. Neither arrest nor prosecution is lawful without prima facie evidence of a crime having been committed.
Violation of the accused's human right to freedom of expression
The accused's human right to freedom of expression is protected in law - the Human Rights Act 1998.
Therefore the accused expects a court of law to protect him from the procurator fiscal depute's spurious, vexatious and / or malicious prosecution which violates his human right of freedom of expression.
For use of the word "Paki" not to be protected by human rights legislation, specifically the Human Rights Act 1998, SCHEDULE 1, Article 10 "Freedom of expression", the prosecution would require to prove - stretching credibility to bursting point - that the outlawing of the word "Paki" is "necessary in a democratic society".
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
Leave of the court to object on cause shown to the competency and relevancy of the fiscal deputeâs complaint and proceedings thereon is craved to be granted under the procedure legislated for in Section 144, subsections (4) & (5) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act (1995) as amended, quoted below.
â(4) Any objection to the competency or relevancy of a summary complaint or the proceedings thereon, or any denial that the accused is the person charged by the police with the offence shall be stated before the accused pleads to the charge or any plea is tendered on his behalf.
(5) No objection or denial such as is mentioned in subsection (4) above shall be allowed to be stated or issued at any future diet in the case except with the leave of the court, which may be granted only on cause shown.â
Disclosed - Mr Ewan Wilson-McKay was the procurator fiscal-depute who petitioned Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 16th December 2024 for a warrant to Police Scotland to smash their way in to my Aberdeen home and grab my stuff.
I was given sight of Wilson-McKay's petition at a disclosure access meeting at Aberdeen Procurator Fiscal's Office, AB1 Crimon Place on Thursday, 20th February 2025 where I was allowed for an hour and a half to view the case papers and take notes but not allowed to take photographs to save time.
Note-taking was so slow that I wasn't allowed enough time to view all the papers so I have requested another disclosure access appointment, yet to be offered to me.
I emailed Wilson-McKay yesterday when an autoresponder told me that he is on leave until 4th March 2025. It is an urgent matter so I have forwarded my email on to his colleagues at the Procurator Fiscal's Office in Edinburgh.
EMAIL
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025. Subject: PF Ref: AB25000403 Alastair Peter Dow. Return of property seized by police.
Dear Mr Wilson-McKay,
I am the accused Alastair Peter Dow representing myself in this case.
Your name was disclosed to me yesterday at Aberdeen Procurator Fiscal's Office when I was finally allowed to view case papers including your petition to the Sheriff Court in Edinburgh to grant a warrant to the police to seize my irreplaceable science research data held uniquely on my Dell Computer, described in the below-appended email.
I feel sure that it was not your intention to commit a crime against humanity by obstructing the progress of science for so long as my computer with its data is not returned to me - so I am leaving no stone unturned and writing to you to ask you to intervene in this case once more to explain to those-whom-it-may-concern that, given that I have consistently and on the record admitted tweeting the complained-about tweets on my X account "@_Peter_Dow", there is no extant rhyme nor reason for the police and prosecutors to hang onto my computer any longer and so my computer and indeed all of my property seized by police as per your petition for warrant should be returned to me forthwith.
You may care to examine the below email trail to see how I have strived in vain to explain matters to the Aberdeen prosecutors and Police Scotland, only to be met with an impenetrable wall of stalling and buck-passing.
I don't know who is the precise decision-maker at this stage who would be authorised to release my property back to me but I would be grateful if you could investigate this and write to the relevant decision-maker and ask him or her to release my property back to me because there is already in the case papers a veritable mountain of evidence to prove that I tweeted the complained-about tweets.
There would seem to be an opportunity for you now to right what once went wrong. Please take this opportunity now. Seize the day.
Fernandez expects only to be appearing in Aberdeen Sheriff Court to bear false witness against me (Peter Dow) and my human right to freedom of expression, to bear false witness against our democratic rights and freedoms in Scotland, in Spain and in every other country under threat from Muslim terrorism and to bear false witness against our Scottish and Spanish common European heritage - Christian civilisation itself.
"Politicians have a right to speak and mix with crowds without the risk of violence, threats or intimidation." - wrote David Fernandez for the Scotsman published in July 2024 - just a few months after Fernandez had maliciously complained to the police about my political tweets, which complaint incited the police to the violence of smashing my Aberdeen flat door in to take me political prisoner for the purpose of threatening my freedom of speech with a malicious prosecution which intimidates me from doing my political service for the people as is my duty and my right.
It seems that David Fernandez is quite the hypocrite - a shameless liar whose lies in bearing false witness against me will be presented by the credulous prosecutors of Aberdeen Sheriff Court I expect.
Fernandez writing for the Scotsman about claiming to support political rights to speak is now shown up to be a liar and a fascist-wolf in liberal-sheep's clothing, a man who is apparently well up for police state violence, threats and intimidation when it suits his prejudices.
David is a retired football player but soon he will be appearing at a fixture in an Aberdeen court room where he will be playing in the witness box for the Paki-SNP, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and for every Muslim terrorist group which could benefit from anyone bearing false witness against me.
"KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Thousands of people watched as a woman, cowering beneath a pale blue all-enveloping burqa, was shot and killed today in the first public execution of a woman in Kabul since the Taliban religious army took control three years ago.
The woman, identified only as Zarmeena, a mother of seven children, was found guilty of beating her husband to death with a steel hammer as he slept. The reason for the killing two years ago was a family dispute," according to a Taliban soldier, who didn't give his name.
Zarmeena was taken from the back of a pickup truck that drove into the sports stadium."
The pitch of that Afghan sports stadium having been marked with white lines for football games, by the looks of the photograph of the execution. The woman is executed just inside the penalty box - but the Taliban's Sharia courts will not penalise the gunman for his cruel act of execution.
The Taliban who execute women on the pitch of an Afghan football stadium would cheer David Fernandez into the witness box against me - as will Scotland's Muslims including the wanna-be tartan-Taliban who dream of executing Scottish women at the Excelsior, Almondvale, Parkhead, Tannadice & Rugby Park stadiums - Muslim bullets in the heads of innocent Scottish women to the roar of the Muslim lynch-mob crowd, one day, Muslims in Scotland pray to Allah.
David Fernandez's kind of treachery to our European democratic values, if followed by football fans, will maim the beautiful game in Europe, subjecting Scots, Spaniards and other Europeans to the ugly spectacle in our home town stadiums of Islam, red in tooth and claw - stonings, hangings, cuttings of throats, beheadings, burnings alive - all for the glory of Islam and for the entertainment of "good Muslims" and regular Mosque attenders.
If David Fernandez knows his Spanish history, he would not dare to bear false witness against me in court. He would instead get tweeting on X to educate Scots about how Spain finally rid themselves of the Muslim terror by the Expulsion of the Moriscos - between 1492 and 1610 alone, about three million Muslims left or were expelled from Spain. By the end of the 18th century, indigenous Islam and Morisco identity were considered to have been extinguished in Spain.
Spanish history has shown Europeans how to defend Christian civilisation against the cruelty of the Muslim hordes who now threaten Europe's blessed heritage by the grace of God and the eternal love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
David Fernandez will be returning to his homeland of Spain soon I presume? The Inquisition may want to ask David a few questions, like these questions for example:
"In reaction to the policy of Spain to facilitate access to Spanish citizenship by descendants of the Jews who were expelled from Spain, there has been demand from Muslims to apply a similar policy to the descendants of the Moriscos. In 2006 this demand received support from the parliament of Andalusia but has not gained broader support."
Would David Fernandez support this modern initiative to open the flood-gates to tens of millions of Muslims to come into Spain and make Spain once more a land whose people may be subjected to Muslim rule?
What does David say to the broad majority of reasonable Spaniards who oppose any such modern initiative?
Would David call Spaniards "racist" for opposing mass Muslim immigration into Spain?
If David does not dare to lie and bear false witness against most Spaniards then how dare he bear false witness against me, Peter Dow, in Scotland?
The Scottish Government's unprofessional and unintelligent fiscal depute, who is prosecuting false charges against me, hasn't answered my defence emails in a timely or satisfactory manner. So I am publishing my emails to suggest that there is no justification for this malicious prosecution against a life-long anti-racist like me.
AGREED EVIDENCE
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 16:39. Subject: Fwd: PF Ref: AB25000403 Alastair Peter Dow. Agreed Evidence
Here are the facts which the defence intends to present as evidence though it is for the prosecution to prove their case and the presumption of innocence is mine as the accused by right.
Facts
1. The etymology of the word "Paki" was a clipping or shortening of the word "Pakistani" without changing the meaning. Originally, the word "Paki" just meant "Pakistani" with no racist connotation.
2. Scots today may use the word "Paki" intending to mean "Pakistani" (with no racist connotation), in the original sense of the word "Paki" and may do so lawfully in Scotland.
3. Scots may refer to any Pakistani as a "Paki" and may do so lawfully in Scotland.
4. Humza Yousaf is a Pakistani and has been recorded on video (attached to this email as the file "Yousaf says he's a Pakistani.mp4" and may be viewed on YouTube at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFBpchLPoU ) referring to seeing himself as "... Pakistani too".
5. Scots may note that Humza Yousaf is a Pakistani and may refer to him as a "Paki" meaning "Pakistani" lawfully in Scotland.
7. Scots may note that Kaukab Stewart is a Pakistani and may refer to her as a "Paki" meaning "Pakistani" lawfully in Scotland.
8. The accused Alastair Peter Dow is the owner of the X account "@_Peter_Dow" and accepts full responsibility for posting or tweeting that X account's complained-about tweets which the prosecution complains about in the prosecution's summary complaint against the accused.
The defence invites the prosecution to agree with the defence a memorandum of understanding to be lodged as a minute with the court with some or all the above listed facts as agreed evidence for the purpose of the proceedings.
DISCLOSURE
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 10:50. Subject: PF Ref: AB25000403 Alastair Peter Dow. Offer me appointment slots for disclosure access please
In your email of 6th February 2025, an Aberdeen PF fiscal officer wrote
"Please also contact our office to arrange an appointment where you can view witness statements by access."
I did contact the same by reply email, copied below, asking what appointment slots for disclosure access are offered to me?
As yet I have received no reply and no offer of any appointment slots for disclosure access.
I am trying to make contact as requested but as usual, getting a timely response from the arrogant and incompetent Aberdeen PF fiscal's office is like getting blood from a stone.
Answer me if you would be so kind!
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 at 15:27
What appointment slots for disclosure access are you offering next week? Monday?
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Date: 06 Feb 2025 17:09. Subject: Re: PF Ref: AB25000403 Alastair Peter Dow. Return of property seized by police.
Firstly, My "DELL COMPUTER" - Dell Optiplex Mini Tower small form factor desktop personal computer - is NOT a "mobile device". Product Dimensions â9.27 x 29.21 x 29.01 cm; Weight - 5.14 kg
This Dell computer has a 128 GigaBytes Solid State Drive hard disc which has my science research work in-progress at the time of the police smash-and-grab raid. I cannot be more specific than that as regards which data files have unique science data information and which are copied elsewhere. Just give me the whole unit back now please.
I don't understand the rationale for your statement "We still await further documentation from the Police before we can finally determine whether we require to have your mobile devices analysed."
The police tell me they are waiting on the PF to order the release of my property back to me and you tell me that the PF are waiting on the police. That sounds like a very long wait which will never be resolved. Please take responsibility to rectify the wrong that this pair of corrupt and incompetent institutions did in seizing my computer equipment in the first place. This stalling and buck-passing between police and prosecutors is inexcusable.
While police deny me access to that disc and its data, this denial is obstructing me from efficiently continuing with in-progress voluntary science duties in the service of humanity.
This wilful denial constitutes misconduct by the police and prosecutors in a public office which amounts, in my opinion, to a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY committed by police and by fiscal officers such as yourselves in Aberdeen PF's office. You lot are the dangerous criminals in this case, not me! Fiscal officers should be disbarred as solicitors - struck off - if they wilfully refuse to order the return of my science data. If the government will not strike off those guilty of such misconduct in a public office then we need a new government in my political opinion.
The truly mobile "mobile devices" taken - my TCL mobile phone and Packard Bell laptop - do not contain such currently in-use science data as the Dell PC but for example, the mobile phone has phone numbers of recent contacts which I don't have any other note of. So that's an inconvenience I could do without.
Secondly, why can't you copy the witness statements and email them to me so I can view them at home? What form are the statements in?
Paper? Don't you have a scanner? Can I use your scanner to copy paper statements onto my laptop?
Video? Video statements can also be copied digitally and emailed or if too large to email they can be copied onto a memory device.
Do you have appropriate IT support staff available for such tasks or will I have to do it all myself? I am technically able but I will either need to use your equipment or bring my own if you don't have IT support available.
"C S" - Claire Stewart?
Miss Claire Anne Stewart Procurator Fiscal Service AB1 Building Crimon Place ABERDEEN AB10 1BJ
Dear Miss Stewart,
I beg your pardon for my unsolicited email but I am seeking to discover the name of the Procurator Fiscal Depute who signed this letter -
- with initials I read as "C S". My guess is that those might be your initials so would you please clarify for me if they are, or help me discover whose initials they are if not yours?
I would like to discover the name of the Procurator Fiscal Depute who is prosecuting this case because, as the accused in this case, representing myself, I would like to expedite communications between the prosecution and the defence.
RETURN MY PROPERTY!
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 09:33. Subject: PF Ref: AB25000403 Alastair Peter Dow. Return of property seized by police.
I am the accused Alastair Peter Dow representing myself.
My priority now is to secure the immediate return of my property seized by the police which is not required as evidence for your prosecution.
Speaking from the dock of Court 1 in Aberdeen Sheriff Court, yesterday, 15th January 2025 I said -
"Fourthly, I must repeat my previous requests for the return to me of my computer equipment, seized by the police, which I need in my possession to continue to do the full range of my science duties in the service of humanity but which the police and prosecution have never needed because I have always freely admitted tweeting the complained-about tweets.
There should be no dispute between prosecution and defence about the bare facts of this complaint and case. There is nothing left unproven which my computer equipment is needed by the prosecution to prove. The police and the prosecution don't need my property - have never needed my property - so return my property now please.
I implore the court - DO NOT commit a crime against humanity by obstructing the progress of science. Return my equipment to me forthwith!"
In previous emails, the full text of which is appended to this email and which were previously forwarded to Aberdeen Procurator Fiscal Service I wrote -
"But the Court and the Crown should take careful note that I have already admitted to the police (see my email forwarded below) to sending the tweets complained about from my X account "_Peter_Dow".
Therefore the Crown does not need to lead any further evidential proof that I sent my complained about tweets - and if required I would be happy to sign a memorandum of understanding for the Crown, admitting to sending the tweets but what I am not happy about is for the Crown and the police to keep in their possession my computers and mobile phone which I demand be returned to me immediately.
I need my Dell Optiplex desktop computer especially for the science data contained therein so that I can continue my duties as a scientist in the service of humanity. It is a crime against humanity to obstruct a scientist in the service of humanity. Therefore do not commit a crime against humanity and return to me my science data immediately. I need my science data and I am entitled to lawful possession of my own property generally. The Crown doesn't need my property for any lawful purpose so should instruct the police to return it to me forthwith.
It would be quite wrong for this case to drag out from one continuation after another while all the time the Crown maintains the fiction that I would deny authorship of tweets in my own name or that somehow a police smash and grab raid on my own home is required to prove that I tweeted my own tweets!"
"Secondly, as a scientist, I do voluntary duties in the service of humanity so you may be concerned to note that it is a crime against humanity to obstruct a scientist like myself in the course of my science duties by seizing my computer and precious scientific data. The computer may be replaced but very often the science data is irreplaceable. Therefore I strongly urge you to return my Dell Optiplex to me as soon as possible.
It is my understanding that your officers seized my computer and mobile in the course of their investigation into Case Number PSSECR53W1224 concerning a complaint about tweets I had made from my @_Peter_Dow X (formerly Twitter) account.
At an interview with your officers at Kittybrewster Police Custody Centre, yesterday 18th December 2024, I readily confirmed ownership of both that X account and authorship of the tweets complained about and I am happy to confirm that ownership and authorship in writing to you today again.
It therefore follows that there is nothing to be gained by police or prosecutors ordering a forensic examination of my computer and mobile phone to seek evidence for my authorship of those tweets which I have already admitted to. Such a forensic examination would be pointless, redundant, an unwarranted expense and it would obstruct my lawful use of my own property and obstruct my duties as a scientist. Please return my computer and mobile phone to me expeditiously."
On the 18th December 2024, police smashed my Aberdeen flat door in and took me as a political prisoner for the pleasure and convenience of Islamo-fascist politicians Humza Yousaf MSP, former First Minister of Scotland and Kaukab Stewart MSP, Scottish Government minister.
The police smash-and-grab raid also seized my computer equipment with my irreplaceable science data on it, obstructing my voluntary science duties in the service of humanity, which police-state obstruction of science is a crime against humanity committed by police, prosecutors and their Scottish Government masters.
which neglects to report anything of substance from what I said from the dock of Aberdeen Sheriff Court on 15th January 2025 while representing myself - disappointing after I had gone to the bother of providing the P&J court reporter, David McPhee, with a transcript of what I had said in court as follows.
QUOTE
FIRSTLY
Firstly, under section 144 "Procedure at First Diet" Subsection (4), I object to the competency and relevancy of any such summary complaint and proceedings thereon.
It is not competent for any court in this country to interfere with the cut and thrust of peaceful, lawful and orderly political debate, as happens routinely on social media sites such as X (formerly Twitter) or in any other public forum.
It is a common occurrence for anyone reading X to dislike a tweet or a series of tweets by an author so X offers its users options such as Mute & Block (in future to hide from your sight all the tweets of selected authors) and Report, asking X to consider whether or not any author of any tweet has broken X's rules and take appropriate action if it has.
No-one reading X needs intervention by the police or the courts to avoid reading further tweets from an author whose views they don't like. Simply mute, block and / or report. Don't waste everyone's time by complaining to the police.
Freely expressing one's political opinions and viewpoints is a legal human right - NOT "a crime".
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.
Freedom of expression is a legal right so arresting or prosecuting particular complained-about expressions is not relevant to the normal function of the courts in any country where legal human rights are respected and upheld.
In fascist dictatorships such as Russia, North Korea and Pakistan brave citizens often get arrested and prosecuted or summarily shot by a secret agent of the state for peacefully saying what they think. But this is Scotland. This is Britain. This is NOT Pakistan.
We Scots and we Britons hold ourselves to a higher democratic standard. We won't willingly be ruled by a fascist dictatorship for the convenience of selfish politicians - to spare their political blushes, to maximise their political votes or to promote their political careers.
Rather we should resolve to oppose the malicious complaint of any fascist politician such as Humza Yousaf and Kaukab Stewart who dares to subvert the police and the courts just in order to try to silence a democratic critic by any means necessary.
What this prosecution is asking the court to do is to illegally crush my democratic freedom of expression which heavy-handed fascist action should be viewed as despicable in any democratic country such as ours.
This is my objection taken to the competency and relevancy of this complaint and these proceedings and so under section 157 "Record of proceedings" subsection (2) I desire my objection to be entered in the record of the proceedings.
SECONDLY
Secondly, I apply to be admitted to bail under section 22A "Consideration of bail on first appearance" and section "23B Entitlement to bail and the court's function".
As an accused person, I am entitled to bail because there is no good reason for refusing me bail. I undertake to attend hearings and diets of the case. I shall not interfere with witnesses nor evidence and I shall not commit any crime while on bail. There is no good reason to add further spurious bail conditions to my bail which unjustly hinder my duties in science and politics. Therefore the Court merely has to ordain me to appear and I shall do so.
Fourthly, I must repeat my previous requests for the return to me of my computer equipment, seized by the police, which I need in my possession to continue to do the full range of my science duties in the service of humanity but which the police and prosecution have never needed because I have always freely admitted tweeting the complained-about tweets.
There should be no dispute between prosecution and defence about the bare facts of this complaint and case. There is nothing left unproven which my computer equipment is needed by the prosecution to prove. The police and the prosecution don't need my property - have never needed my property - so return my property now please.
I implore the court - DO NOT commit a crime against humanity by obstructing the progress of science. Return my equipment to me forthwith!
END-QUOTE
As a life-long anti-racist, it is very unjust for me to be accused of "racially aggravated/ offensive" anything.đ Of course I am not a "racist". Humza Yousaf describes himself as "Pakistani". Kaukab Stewart was born in Pakistan. It's not "racist" to describe either of them as "Pakistani" or to use the shorter word "Paki" which just means Pakistani in the same way that "Brit" is a shorter word for "Briton", "Aussie" is short for "Australian", "Jap" for "Japanese" and so on.
