g.sarkar wrote:
This was to be expected. In normal trials, the judge is paid by the state, the prosecutor is paid by the state and the public defender is paid by the state. All work hand in glove to come up with pleas that send blacks, Asian and Hispanics to long prison sentences. More backward the County, more disproportionate is the sentence. That is the reason the prisons are full of minorities quite disproportionate ratio from the population. In the case of Dr K, there is a private lawyer, but Preet Bharwa and the judge will still work hand in hand. They will pressurize Dr. K to plead guilty for a lenient sentence. They will paint a picture such as ten years if she goes for a jury trial. Some will remember the trial of OJ Simpson. He got away by using a group of very successful lawyers called the Dream Team. I hope the MEA has employed successful lawyers to defend Dr K. Otherwise expect a very one sided judgement.
Gautam
Here is where we need to learn a lesson or two from the Chinese.
1) We should constitute our own Worldwide Human Rights commission that publishes annual reports about how
racial minorities are ill-treated in the U.S, how the jails are filled with them, how the system is biased against them (Treyvon Martin case), how felony-disenfranchisement is used to prevent blacks from voting etc.
2) We should similarly constitute a Worldwide Religious Rights commission that lambasts the
U.S about how the country is 99% Christian, non-inclusive of other religions, how non-Christians are harassed like the Koran-burning incident, how pastors condemn Diwali as a celebration of darkness, how you cannot even get a Presidential nomination ticket if you don't swear by the bible, how bibles are present in all hotel rooms, how soldiers paint verses from the bible on bombs which they drop on Muslim children etc
3) A third report should be about International War Crimes, featuring prominently
US initiated wars all around the world, the corresponding genocide, destruction of countries & the livelihoods of people, how the US has been at war for more than 90% of its existence, a prominent highlighting of war criminals like Kissinger, Bush & Obama etc
Throw these reports in the face of any American when he/she talks about our caste system
