Good lord, could this be a sympathetic judge...?

In passing sentence on the Fathers 4 Justice people who "stormed" the Big Brother studios in January, the judge said:

"Of course I understand each of the defendant's claims of reason and it may be a reason which has, in terms of that defendant's perception and his individual circumstances, considerable merit."

'Sounds a lot like careful endorsement to me.

I imagine that particular broadcast of Big Brother was about as real as reality TV might ever get.