7-feb-08

12. The Black Hole of the justice System… Time doesn’t Count!

Every month, the “presumed innocents” guys, in Maplehurst jail, are taken to the courtroom, either physically or via videoconference, to be told that they were remanded for another month, as the Legal Aid did not give an answer yet to the defense request for funding!

Just like that! Another month, and another month, and another month! Time passes as if it has consequence. But who cares for what is happening. The only-on-paper principle of “a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty” has already receded and gave way to the evil side of human nature.

To apply such principle, judges, prosecutors and media should all have it in the back of their minds that these guys are innocents, period. They have to have this notion crystal clear and deal with them accordingly in every step of the way. The only difference is that they are “in custody”. According to the only-on-paper principle, the judge and the prosecutors should conduct their actions in a manner that ensures that the accused have their guaranteed right to be treated fairly. They have to remember that saying the word “remanded” in court is not just a word to these “presumed innocents”. It translates to hours, days, weeks and months of their lives being wasted.

Now, when I talk to my son, Shareef, I have run out of excuses to comfort him, and give him some hope of a foreseen end to this dilemma. I recently came to a conclusion that would hopefully put his mind, and mine for that matter, in less hardship. I found out that the best way to deal with the ever long-lasting stagnancy of the case is to assume that these guys were already tried, found guilty and sentenced to 6 years in jail. They are now simply serving the sentence. That is what I told him, as painful as it is, to try to swallow and live with.

The reasons for that are the tricks that the government always comes up with to slow down the trial to carry on locking these guys behind bars as long as it can to keep the fear alive in the Canadians conscience. The funding issue is still up in the air. The legal aid still did not give an answer to the lawyer’s request for funding the case.

So, the conclusion is that they arrest these people, lock them up, waste two years mongering with the preliminary hearing, and then delay/deny funding the case!

How do they expect these guys to privately hire defense attorneys and pay them? If the government has such spending-awareness, how come they are spending all that money on a mission in Afghanistan that 78% of Canadians opposes, and is costing the tax payers hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention the lives of soldiers that do not know why and for what purpose they are fighting a war that was initiated by Bush’s thirst for blood? The cost of this whole case does not exceed the expenses of one month of this unpopular, unwarranted and unjustified mission.

Is there any hope of reviving fairness and restore conscience in our lives? Was the “Bush” factor so strong to completely veil even the most sacred rights of human beings; to be treated as “innocents till proven guilty”? And do we, Canadians, have already submitted to the evil power of the hatred, prejudice and blood-thirsty practices of the New- Conservatives around the world?

All early indications do not give a hopeful answer…

To be continued….

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Helen  - SubhanAllah how long it will take this.Time pass f   |2008-02-08 02:55 SubhanAllah how long it will take this.Time pass from month to month and nobody cares what happening.After all we here Legal aid did not give an answer to the defense for funding.Our sons cut between this situation and really nobody cares.Nobody cares so far how long they will lock them inside till they decide with their games For God sake they are humans.May Allah subhana o taala reward them for there patient ameen.This is how we talk about human rights and respect for every human been?Only in papers not in reality.They are destroying the life of those people and waste their time.Even now as Shareefs Dad said there is nothing to talk with our sons.My son Zakaria is very patient person and I really feel sorry which he is locked in solidary confinement and till now nobody saw this problem.They have to know that muslims they are humans and they have to treated as everybody else. Reply | Quote 0   0

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