Saddam in Kangaroo court

What is pathetic is that hundreds of "jurists" and human rights advocates around the world especially in the UK, the EU and Canada seemed to have collapsed into one high heap of silent hypocrites.

I don’t expect to hear anything from our long "jurists" because I doubt there are many and, if so, how much do they know of jurisprudence, international law, travesties of justice and kangaroo courts?

After all, our courtrooms echo daily with the warning to poor litigants, "If you come to Court next time without a lawyer I am going to proceed with the trial."

This equals a basic denial of justice and yet locally we hear very few voices raised in protests.

This situation has existed for very many years and I am of the opinion that it will continue well into the 21st century — No money = No Lawyer = No Representation.

But having digressed I return to Saddam and this ridiculous circus trial.

Commentators try to justify this travesty by suggesting that the court procedures and rules of evidence in Iraq are different. What in fact has really happened is that the Americans and their puppets have gotten together with a set-up, a con job of legal hocus pocus to ensure that Saddam is executed.

The basic rules of justice, equity and fair play are absent. Would Americans allow George Bush to be tried in this manner?

In the interim, the Americans are sending hundred of "prisoners" to secret prisons around the world to be "interrogated."

Now that Abu Gharib has been exposed Bush and company must find some more secret torture chambers.

M HOTIN

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