The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

It does look as if the law is becoming ass-like. Three environmental protesters have been found guilty of defacing the Westminster office of the Global Warming Policy Foundation with grafitti (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/dont-put-climate-activists-on-trial-cps-urged). The Global Warming Policy Foundation is the most prominent group of climate change sceptics in the UK. The Foundation is well-funded by fossil fuel companies. The fossil fuel companies were only too aware (from the research of their own scientists) that emissions from burning coal, oil and gas had climate damaging effects. They apparently preferred profit over finding solutions to a problem they knew they were creating. The grafitti said "liars, liars, liars". The magistrates, examining the case, commended the protesters for their 'openness and honesty" and gave them the minimum possible sentence. It seems entirely wrong that the Global Warming Policy Foundation can lie and distort whereas their critics are punished for calling a spade a spade (as they say in Yorkshire).