Gregory Alan Elliot has been Acquitted

For the uninitiated, Gregory Alan Elliot is the Canadian national who has been disallowed from using the internet for several years and was facing jail time over disagreeing with a group of feminists online. TL;DR: They made a bunch of shit up, got him taken in under false charges, and then were getting ready to essentially get this man thrown in prison for disagreeing with a group of feminists online and ultimately, triggering them. I am not joking about this.

Sargon covered this earlier in the lead-up to his crowdfunding his defense. Suffice to say it made its target goals in a matter of hours, and the usual retards who were fond of declaring personal jihads against anyone who besmirches Saint Anita of Sarkeesian were quick to try to frame the incident as....

You know what? Fuck it, I refuse to put in more effort than Margaret Pless herself did:

Today, the Judge essentially threw the case out of court due to the sheer volume of evidence that showed that Elliot didn't do anything wrong. A lot of groups are running this like it's a victory for free discourse online - and it is - but the price was high, to say the least.

Elliot had to crowdfund a huge amount of money for his legal defense and due to being banned entirely from the internet for the last three years, has essentially been unable to do his job. So whilst I do think his acquittal is something worth celebrating, we need to also bear in mind the insanity that led to this case coming to trial in the fucking first place.

Because we really need to tie a face to this trial. And said face was nice enough to remind us all of this with one image that says everything:

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Here's another winner from Guthrie

Q. Okay. Quote, “Blaming the majority of normal hashtag men for hashtag rape is wrong.”

A. Mm hmm.

Q. “Rapist are not normal men. They’re crazy. Why not blame the mentally ill”?

A. Yeah, really.

Q. “Hashtag TBTB”.

A. Mmhmm.

Q. Now would you not agree with me that that’s a ... that’s a pretty good point?

A. Are you kidding me? Okay, first of all I have no idea what the relevance of how valid a point it was, has to the case, Mr. Murphy. But second of all, that is garbage.

Q. Okay, tell me ...

A. I know lots of normal men who have raped. I have been raped by men you would call normal. So ... I have no idea what you’re talking about. And also, how is it relevant whether it was a valid point? Who cares?

It is submitted that Ms. Guthrie’s demeanor during her viva voce evidence on this point was extremely confrontational, volatile and aggressive. Counsel submits that when Ms. Guthrie was asked “that’s a pretty good point?” she banged her fist on witness box and answered in a very loud voice: “Are you kidding me?” This is important, it is submitted, because it demonstrates Ms. Guthrie’s ability and willingness to aggressively defend herself and her political/philosophical positions.

Counsel further submits that at many points during cross-examination, Ms. Guthrie asked rhetorical questions and displayed disdain for any suggestion that Mr. Elliott had ever uttered/tweeted anything valid on any subject. Ms. Guthrie’s rhetorical questions “And how is it relevant whether it was a valid point? Who cares?” confirms that – as far as Ms. Guthrie was concerned – it did not matter to her whether or not Mr. Elliott’s contributions on Twitter were valid political/philosophical comments. No matter what the content of Mr. Elliott’s tweets, Ms. Guthrie allegedly believed that his comments betrayed Mr. Elliott’s obsession with her.Counsel submit that if Ms. Guthrie truly believed that Mr. Elliott was obsessed with her, personally, such a belief -on the evidence before the Court – cannot be considered reasonable. For whatever reason, Ms. Guthrie was completely unable to view Mr. Elliott’s tweets through the lens of valid, political commentary/opposition. Any feelings of fear that Ms. Guthrie allegedly felt were the result of Ms. Guthrie’s irrational conclusion that Mr. Elliott was obsessed with her.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

She comes off as a true narcissist.

 

[AnOminous]

Any feelings of fear that Ms. Guthrie allegedly felt were the result of Ms. Guthrie’s irrational conclusion that Mr. Elliott was obsessed with her.

She is a lunatic who should be committed. The only obsession was hers.

 

[Jaimas]

Take heart.

/baph/'s already locked onto her.

 

[AnOminous]

Take heart.

/baph/'s already locked onto her.

I noticed her face for the first time. What a shockingly punchable face that bitch has.

I'm glad to live in a country where calling that bitch a cunt, or that cunt a bitch, is entirely legal.

I think this smug, jizz-gulping gutter slut is about to be given a lesson in what actual harassment is.

 

[Ruin]

Can she be counter sued for ruining a man's reputation and causing a frivolous lawsuit?

 

[The Colonel]

I noticed her face for the first time. What a shockingly punchable face that bitch has.

I'm glad to live in a country where calling that bitch a cunt, or that cunt a bitch, is entirely legal.

I think this smug, jizz-gulping gutter slut is about to be given a lesson in what actual harassment is.

God damn, I can feel the crazy radiating off of her.

 

[Lorento]

Can she be counter sued for ruining a man's reputation and causing a frivolous lawsuit?

She should be counter sued for wearing such awful glasses.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

I think she should be sentenced to a world where she is perpetually triggered, but no one notices, or acknowledges it. Any night where Guthrie is allowed to have not cry herself to sleep, is an abomination of a day.

 

[AnOminous]

God damn, I can feel the crazy radiating off of her.

I don't think she's crazy in the sense of being delusional. I think she's a power-tripping psycho who reveled in her ability to have someone criminally prosecuted for no crime other than disagreeing with her.

I hope she suffers every day for the rest of her life with people doing just that, now that even the idiotic Canadian legal system has apparently decided that simply disagreeing with someone isn't a felony.

 

[chimpburgers]

I noticed her face for the first time. What a shockingly punchable face that bitch has.

I'm glad to live in a country where calling that bitch a cunt, or that cunt a bitch, is entirely legal.

I think this smug, jizz-gulping gutter slut is about to be given a lesson in what actual harassment is.

I didn't even have to read any of what you said to instantly recognize that this woman looks like utter shit to be around. It's the eyes and wooden expression that did it for me.

 

[SlayerOfTyranny]

"Take away our free speech?Lol u and ur adorable crazy conspiracy theories <3"