Empty promises of justice. Bah 3 of 3 Sontoloyo series no 26
1. I am writing part 3 of this article in the English language.
2. The myth about justice being blind,one law applies to all and the scales of justice will eventually come to equilibrium is false.
3. It's a means to control the people, keeps them in check, a moral lullaby to the people. It comforts them and keeps them subservient.
4. It's the perpetuation of the just world fallacy all over.
5. Workers who think patience is a virtue and they will get their just rewards will not go for industrial action.
6. Chinese and indians who think UMNO , pas or bersatu will be fair to them will continue voting for them.
7. People who think those who commit corruption will be automatically jailed will not call on them to be accountable.
8. Hello , there are some thinking if these people return some portion of the money they plundered, they will be forgiven.
9. A certain chap who plundered billions is now considered for home arrest.
10. Although there is no such provision in the constitution .
11. The problem is, the justice that's promised to us, is delivered by the hands of men .
12. Hands that are soiled by so many imperfections - prejudices, biases or even the idea of protecting the old boy network.
13. Which by definition results in flawed justice.
14. The poor lady who stole a few packets of Milo got a jail sentence. I heard she's desperately looking for a pardon and looking too for a misplaced addendum.
15. Meanwhile, a certain fat-assed chap who's already convicted for plundering millions and who maybe convicted for plundering billions , got a sweetheart deal from the pardons board. His supporters are now weaponising a legally unclear piece of toilet paper called an addendum.
16. Mind you, the toilet paper is not dirty. It's used to wipe the ass.
17. If not for the toilet paper, civilisation will come to an end .
18. That's what you get when justice promises a load of BS.
19. It promises equality but delived on a system riddled by inequalities.
20. It promises neutrality but is shaped by many sentiments, prejudices and biases.
21. It promises fairness but succumbs to people with deep pockets and have technical know who.
22. If there are no constant balancing acts by stout judges, the just world fallacy will continue.
23. Without the interference by brave judges to erase the inequalities, the myth about justice being blind will endure.
24. If not for the judicious interference of these brave souls we would arrive at a situation sociologists termed as a Mathew effect situation.
25. The Mathew effect situation is popularly described by the expression, the rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer.
26 . In our case, it means the strong gets more powerful, the advantaged accumulates more advantages while the powerless gets more hapless.
27. A situation countenanced with the support of grade C judges.
28. The groups who can tilt the scales of justice to their advantage are the ones requiring the least protection from holidaying judges, whole those really needing protection can't get any
29. I won't bore readers with too much discussion on what is distributive justice, what's natural justice, what's legal justice etc.
30. On the other hand, I find it interesting to touch to the best of my knowledge, the ideas about corrective justice and what the Greeks called epekeia .
31. Students of the law know it as equity . Sometimes misspelled as epekia.
32. But I can't help but touch a little bit of distributive justice.
33. It's how society rewards and punishes transgressors and helpers of justice .
34. The lady who stole a few packets of Milo to feed her hungry children should be treated with more compassion. Lord Denning would have done that . Or lords Wilberforce or a Scarman.
35. The asshole who stole million and billions in his plush office, using sophisticated tekno-coli and doing it with utter disregard of the law believing he is invincible and untouchable because of his damn office, should get the severest of comeuppance.
36. Not only must be be punished for the actual crime but he must be punished too for his conceited mental
attitude.
37. That's why I stubbornly believe the rulings of the pardons board on a certain chap is wrong. Humoring the idea of a house arrest is more wrong .
38. We come to the conclusion that distributive justice isn't about equal treatment for all but punishment in accordance to proportionality
39. A wrongdoer is punished with respect to (wrt) his station in life, his circumstances, role and contributions.
40. Why should we be excessively respectful and circumspect when dealing with the rich and the powerful?
41. But dismissively, cavalierly and summarily against the poor and the huddled masses?
43. Corrective measures to balance the scales must be done by brave judges, grade A judges.
44. Just to remind readers why I keep repeating grade A.
45. Because to me, lawyers and judges are like eggs. They come in grades.
46. Grade A being the most capable. Grade C being the least able-not so knowledgeable, speak and write lousy English and compromisable.
47. Corrective justice is about repairing harm. Harm caused to the body, reputation, to public money caused in turn , the scales of justice to tilt. It must be restored as much as possible by the brave judge .
48. While distributive justice is about allocating benefits, corrective justice is about arithmetic in the main followed by jail where appropriate .
49. 10 stolen must be restored by 10 retuned plus more, followed by mandatory jail because the crime of stealing has been committed .
50 . Injury to reputation must be restored by adequate compensation. Both liquidated and unliquidated damages. Jail ought to be considered consequently.
51. Death I think should be restored by punitive compensation plus life imprisonment where no capital punishment is provided .
52. Version of justice is extension of power in another form. It's essentially power dressed up in the costume of justice.
53. Different governments have their own version of what justice is. This now is the version of justice as defined by PH.
54 . Reformasi must infuse every aspect of justice. At the base must be the reminder by Machiavelli.
55. PH is not in the business of preserving the status quo but in replacing it
56. So, versions of justice offered by UMNO, PAS and bersatu ought to be treated as going into the left ear and coming out from the right.
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