Hussein trial - a sad, sad state of affairs
As you have undoubtedly heard or read Saddam Hussein has told the court to go to hell and threatened not to appear in court. The latest CNN headline: "Hussein threatens to skip court".
WHAT?! Are we in fucking grade school? Why is this a news item? Why is this tolerated behavior? How can a defendant threaten a court of law?!?! Does anyone get the impression that we are just being way to nice here? A bit of a harder line would be merited. You wanna skip court - fine, we'll continue without you. You wanna be unruly - we'll gag you. You wanna stage a show - we'll shut down media access and tie you up. The man is accused of torture, murder and mayhem and we're giving him milk and cookies and saying please! It's ridiculous!
WHAT?! Are we in fucking grade school? Why is this a news item? Why is this tolerated behavior? How can a defendant threaten a court of law?!?! Does anyone get the impression that we are just being way to nice here? A bit of a harder line would be merited. You wanna skip court - fine, we'll continue without you. You wanna be unruly - we'll gag you. You wanna stage a show - we'll shut down media access and tie you up. The man is accused of torture, murder and mayhem and we're giving him milk and cookies and saying please! It's ridiculous!
posted by z @ 6:09 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:14 AM,
Rama said…
yeah. I thought it was pretty appalling too. Look at Michael Jackson. He almost didn't show up. What happened? He was reprimanded by the court. But maybe the softening of the court is due to not wanting to piss off the rest of the international community. America is already on a thin string as it is.
At 2:23 PM,
z said…
i know and you're probably right. still though... this just makes us and the Iraqi justice system look silly!
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