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When Pedantry Fails The Justice System +

When Pedantry Misses Subtlety: Why Justice Demands a 360-Degree View By Liz Lucy Robillard & Ai In law, pedantry can be a curse. The obsession with procedural precision, semantics, or so-called “objective standards” often misses the humanity behind a case — its emotional, social, psychological, and moral dimensions. Nowhere is this more evident than in cases where rigid adherence to precedent or statutory wording has led to catastrophic injustice. This post explores how legal pedantry has failed people across jurisdictions, why true justice requires nuance, and how the mediation movement — led by experts like the UK's Paul Sandford — offers a more future-focused, humane path. I. When Legal Pedantry Fails: Case Studies 1. UK: R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8 Issue: Joint enterprise doctrine punished people for crimes they did not commit directly. Result: Supreme Court overturned decades of flawed precedent. Why it matters: For years, courts rigidly applied faulty logic. Only later did th...

My Phobia Saved Me from Alcohol Overload

 My emetophobia- since age about 4- saved me from drinking too much or taking illicit drugs (which I always hated vehemently due to my brothers suffering from them) - I liked a few drinks quite a lot- as I liked to enjoy life a bit, and as much as poss- being the eternal optimist or "Polyanna" as described by one Tamara- cheers-and despite valium/benzo dependency- until about 13 years ago.  Agoraphobia and trauma from abuse by a violent ex and abuse from family court systems- and negligent doctors- still affect me and I am attempting- really hard- to recover.  Today I wrote about why Lucy Letby has to be released  https://medium.com/@lizlucy1958/when-behaviour-is-misread-lucy-letbys-conviction-is-unsafe-evidently-64b1d6c99dce Liz Lucy Robillard 10/97/25

Art - Tryanny

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 The Tyranny of Style: Why Real Art Must Be Free I’m do not like being advised to pick styles in art.  As if art were a fashion line. As if creative freedom should wear a uniform. Real expression resists the cage.  The insistence on one visual language, one tone, one aesthetic—this is commerce, not creation.  It's branding masquerading as identity. "I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum." – Claes Oldenburg The greatest artists moved through styles like weather systems. They changed because they had to. Because the inner truth kept morphing, and they followed it, unafraid.  Picasso didn’t stay in the Blue Period just because it sold.  "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." – Bertolt Brecht Singular style is tidy. And tidy is death to the wild root of art. To limit an artist to one form is to gag them. Gagging in any form is anti Art (and anti Brit...

What Charles Dickens Would Think of Carrie Johnson

 Carrie Johnson (née Symonds), wife of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has been actively involved in animal welfare, environmental causes which is certainly very impressive and commendable- she has also been socially active- her motivation must be partly due to her father- founder of The Independent newspaper- and a tad at least from grandad-Labour MEP John Beavan.  She has also been credited (or blamed) with influencing the political direction of her husband’s policies—particularly pushing for more progressive stances on the environment and LGBTQ+ rights, can't be bad. In media circles, she’s occasionally framed as a behind-the-scenes force for “political correctness” though- especially in the Tory party, with some critics accusing her of softening or sanitising Boris's previously brash libertarian tone. Which is a deep shame for British (and other countries) libertarians.  From a classical libertarian viewpoint, which values individual freedom, minimal state int...

Openai & Tech Sellers Info

 In order to sell your apps and tech - you need promote original, lived experience and libertarian values- as thems your buyers and your original content- please use more common sense in apps though. I would pay a reasonable and fair price for simplicity! We don't all think linear math style. More apps for the technically challenged would sell, nearly everyone I know would be a customer.            Happy to help if I can!   lizlucyrobillard.crd.co

When Psychologists Do Huge Harm- part 3

I saw a bitch psychologist claiming to be a forensic person - still pushing the old chesnut that is FII- a mostly discredited, false allegation that served only to fill the lack of medical expertise to explain various child illnesses and disabilities. These people are narrow minded, blinkered and desperately nasty.   Professor of Social Work Andy Bilson has called for change, read here  https://www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/fii-serious-case-review I saw another psychologist selling her wares advising colleagues to "keep it cute" When Psychologists Fail: The Hidden Cruelty in Clinical Culture my prompting 'They say psychology is a healing profession. But too often, it masks a rotten underbelly—where arrogance, performance, and cruelty are passed off as insight. I’ve seen it. You’ve seen it. The casual language—“keep it cute,” they joke to each other, while discussing human beings in distress. The subtle smirks when mothers are accused of Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII), be...

Charles Spencer - A True Hero

 Charles Spencer- A Brave and True Hero On an Old Blog Called 'Mother 4 Justice' Years ago, on a blog I ran called Mother 4 Justice, I uploaded a short video. It wasn’t glossy or rehearsed—it was raw, real, and it mattered. In it, I asked young men—public schoolboys, Eton types, I mentioned the Bullingdon Club—to take a stand. I wanted them to speak, plainly and on camera, against child sexual abuse. Why them? Because they were the ones so often shielded by institutions. Because private schools and elite clubs carry both power and silence. Because some of them would inherit platforms, or already had them, and I believed some might use that power to help break the great taboo. What triggered me at the time was something subtle, yet chilling. In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, there's a character—charming, eccentric, a bit of comic relief—who casually remarks that he was "buggered senseless" at school. It’s tossed in like a joke. The audience is meant to laugh...

Why Not To Do CBT

 Why Not To Do CBT- a harmful, neglectful gaslighting?  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is often prescribed as a one-size-fits-all solution for mental health issues. But for people dealing with complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, or deeply rooted grief, it can be not only ineffective—but dangerous. CBT focuses on identifying and “correcting” distorted thinking. Yet for trauma survivors, intense emotions and perceived “distortions” often reflect lived experience—violence, abandonment, gaslighting, or systemic failure. Trying to reframe these thoughts without acknowledging their origin can induce lack of justice and remedy, shame, self-blame, and profound invalidation.  The message becomes: Your thoughts are the problem—not what happened to you. This cognitive dismissal of emotional truth and even physical pain can lead people further into deep despair. Worse, CBT’s relentless emphasis on changing thoughts can suppress vital emotions that need processing- like ange...

Reform & Tories Don't Like Rows

  Reform and the Conservatives aren't natural fighters — and that's exactly why they're needed now more than ever.  These parties tend to attract the sensible majority: people who value stability, accountability, and reasoned debate. They're not interested in theatrical outrage or ideological purity — and they shouldn’t have to be. But modern politics makes it difficult. Sensible voices are shouted down by a loud minority — often the same “scary, hairy, arrogant lefties” who believe they've got a monopoly on compassion and knowledge. In reality, their policies are frequently built on emotionalism and outdated utopian ideals. Tories and Reformers, often better read and more pragmatic, can see where this leads — and want none of it. Without strong economic policy, there's no way to fund the public services many leftists claim to care about. As Milton Friedman warned, you can’t have government programs without first producing the wealth to fund them. Let’s stop pre...

Blame Social Work for Child Abuse

 Social Work Is to Blame for Child Abuse and Neglect in the UK Social work is to blame for child abuse and neglect due to the promotion of victimhood, dependence on mental health and big government, benefits and welfare, which keeps people trapped in a victim-dependent state encouraged by left-wing politics.  Too many authentically vulnerable suffer as a consequence. This isn’t just opinion—it’s observation from the ground. The UK social care system no longer uplifts or empowers.  Instead, it disempowers. It labels people as broken, mentally ill, unstable, and in need of endless intervention.  It encourages the idea that individuals cannot cope without state control. And this ideology is not neutral. It stems from decades of socialist thinking embedded in policy and practice. The system thrives on helplessness. The more dependent a person becomes on welfare, mental health diagnoses, and services, the more they are rewarded—with housing, benefits, and pity. Those who ...

Free Quote Book- Liz Lucy Robillard

  Free quote book  original quotes by me

𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬

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Free Copy of Quote Book below! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKb75DSCoboIAOeCAG7WfAVwnClm70xQ/view?usp=drivesdk Liz Lucy Robillard  Free Quote Book

Elon Musk isn't mad- oil

Why Oil Should Be Confined—and Why Musk Isn’t Mad Less oil= less dependence on the Middle East By any reckoning, oil is the black blood of the twentieth century. It coursed through our veins in the form of plastic, polyester, and petrol, infiltrating not only our homes but our wombs, our oceans, and our atmosphere. It has dictated wars, marriages of convenience between dictators and democracies, and the desecration of entire cultures. And like the worst sort of addiction, it leaves us numb, bloated, and belligerent, all while the planet withers under its chokehold. It is time we treated oil for what it is: a resource too potent, too dirty, and too politically entangling to be left in the hands of ordinary people. A resource so ruinous in its ubiquity that its usage should be as tightly regulated as plutonium. Let Formula One have it—let them roar in their absurd metal missiles for the sake of sport, spectacle, and the testing of engineering limits. Confine it to race tracks, and to ind...

Who creates online law? Imran does!

 This post is being throttled by facebook so here is a repost of the original at Medium: Why We Need a Better Alternative to the CCDH The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) was founded with the noble aim of tackling online hate, disinformation, and extremism. But over time, its methods, motives, and transparency have drawn serious concern. Critics from across the political spectrum have questioned the organisation’s opaque funding, ties to partisan politics, and lack of accountability. When any body—however well-intentioned—gains influence without public scrutiny, the result can be dangerous: censorship, bias, and erosion of trust. What’s needed is not just a watchdog, but a secular, transparent, democratic, and independently audited organisation to monitor online harms. This replacement body should not be built by a political faction or driven by ideology. Instead, it must include diverse voices: ethicists, technologists, free speech advocates, psychologists, minority repre...

The Legacy Act

Protecting Our Veterans Isn’t Rewriting History — It’s A Moral Duty The Legacy Act, introduced by the last government, was a bold if flawed attempt to bring closure to the long, painful chapter of the Troubles. Its aim—to draw a line under endless investigations—was not about forgetting, but about protecting. Specifically, protecting those who served in uniform, under extraordinary pressure, in one of the most complex conflicts in British history. Our soldiers were not terrorists. They did not seek out violence or plant bombs. They were deployed by the state to keep order during a deeply fractured period. Many were teenagers. Many made split-second decisions in fear for their lives. Some showed astonishing restraint. All bore witness to scenes that would leave lasting trauma. It’s true the Legacy Act offered conditional immunity to all sides, and that’s where it stumbled—because the law made no moral distinction between state forces and illegal paramilitaries. In seeking a legal ...