On the 21st of August, I wrote in admiration of English-style justice, when a court acquitted a young man accused of armed robbery, because a policeman was seen inside the court shaking his head or frowning as though objecting the conduct of the trial. This closely coincided with the death of Winnie Johnson, mother of one of the victims of mass murderer Ian Brady, after 50 years of trying to find where her son had been buried, and the killer refused to help her. If Brady was in an Arab country, he would have confessed to crimes he did not commit, and he would have dug up his victim with his bare hands to escape torture. I acknowledged Western-style justice and gave it credit where it is due, but today, I continue with what I have against this justice, without retracting my previous article entitled Arrested and Confessed. Instead, I just want to express reservations or attempt to be objective. One week after my article, Anders Brevik, who killed 77 people about a year ago, was sentenced by a court in Oslo. The court, comprising five judges, ruled unanimously that the criminal was sane, and sentenced him to 21 years in prison. 21 years for killing 77 people? This means that he will be imprisoned for less than 100 days for each victim. I apologize for my ignorance as someone from the third world, or the thirty-third world, but I believe that Brevik deserved to be crucified, and left to die a very slow and painful death. Will Julian Assange be given a fair trial in Sweden, or will politics defeat Scandinavian justice once again? If the founder of WikiLeaks was facing Sweden alone, there would not have been any doubts. But the United States wants him arrested to try him on counts of espionage, after his website exposed the crimes of the occupation in Iraq, through video footage and hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables. I hope that the reader will remember if Assange ends up before the court, that the charges of sexual assault were first raised on 20/8/2010, four and half months after the alleged assault took place, a period during which Assange and his website rose to prominence at the expense of the administration of George W. Bush. In the U.S., American company Apple won a court verdict against South Korean company Samsung. A judge in California ordered Samsung to pay one billion dollars to Apple for copying parts of the iPhone's design, which are patented by the American company. I want to say that maybe this happened. But I note that the verdict against the South Korean group was issued by an American judge in California, the location of Silicon Valley or the hi-tech hub of America, and the juries were all American. Would a neutral court in Switzerland, for example, have reached the same verdict? I don't know. But I remember from the autobiography of Apple's genius CEO Steve Jobs, who is of Syrian origin, that the author Walter Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying: “I'm going to destroy android (the operating system that Samsung used in its phones). I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." I will not go into details that I and the reader will get lost in, but I want to say that although Google is the brain behind the android system, I have noticed that Google is in talks with Apple to avoid going to court over their dispute- although a verdict involving two American companies in California would have raised less questions about justice, than a court case between a local company and a foreign one. Western justice may be fair to criminals at the expense of their victims, but it is incomplete or deficient in political issues that it ignores, because they would otherwise condemn the entire system, not just the accused. I had called time after time for the American war criminals who falsified the premises for the Iraq war to be put on trial, having caused the death of one million Arabs and Muslims, and all those who were in collusion with them, such as the government of Tony Blair in Britain. The Noble peace prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, pulled out of an international conference because Tony Blair was attending. In a subsequent statement, he said that the former British PM and George W. Bush must be put on trial because of Iraq. This is what I believe too. I conclude with Israel, or the justice of occupation and racism. There, a court has acquitted the military criminals of the charge of causing the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer, as she attempted to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah. The judge said that she could have escaped with her life, but that she did not. Martyr Rachel Corrie is more human while she's dead than the living in the Israeli government, army and courts. [email protected]
