Bonum Certa Men Certa

The Right to Punch People (Apparently)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 19, 2025,
updated Sep 19, 2025

Hours ago:

Tweet endorsement of violence

His client, whose file he demonstrably works on this month:

If you feel the need to punch them, then it's generally the real Bruce Perens.

What the lawyer is defending:

The IT Crowd

If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.

Also from his client:

I'm extremely reluctant to pass much comment on the Israel - Gaza situation because I grew up in an occupied territory where terrorists frequently targeted civilians and arguably the terrorism eventually resulted in a negotiated peace with a vaguely functioning power sharing arrangement, and I do not want that to be the moral of the story

Every time the discourse is 'Political violence is inherently bad and does not achieve its goals' I wonder whether the Good Friday Agreement could have happened without violence and the answer is that I want to say 'yes' but I legitimately do not know

From what we plan to show the Judge: [1, 2]

MElon is a violent man who suffered or experienced violence in South Africa. Now he's endorsing and celebrating violence in X.com, where Brett Wilson is active (and in the country where MElon came under probe for causing actual violence). The sole litigation client of Brett Wilson (from this year, based on public databases) is promoting Cheeto Trump in X.com this week, so maybe that makes sense. These people think alike and believe that violence or even death is "humour" (Cheeto Trump posts video memes of himself literally punching the press). Heck, they even think Courts are "funny" and filing lawsuits (litigation) in the UK High Court is "mostly funny".

This is one very considerable difference between us and them. At Brett Wilson, Brett's job title is "Head of Crime" and Wilson normalises calls for violence. One of his biggest clients right now is the violent, racist Serial Strangler from Microsoft, who was in prison for strangulation (of women). The other clients aren't much better; the white men in Brett Wilson hide behind the veil of ethnicity while they attack defenseless women of colour. If Cheeto Trump ran for UK Prime Minister, they'd probably vote for him.

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