[Reader-list] Aafia Siddiqui: The Terror-Industrial Complex

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Paul
 
The comment was not directed at you.
 
By all accounts the access to Legal Redress is excellent in the USA. The lack of that in India (and I think in Pakistan too) creates a strangulation that only helps in corrupt practices and in tampering with due judicial processes (whether amongst officers of the court or people in the investigating agencies). 

My comment was on the system of adjucation by 'jury consisting of ordinary citizens'. I do not think it is a good system. To repeat myself "Many factors can and will cloud competent and diligent evaluation of the evidence/arguments presented in court." 
 
Your response seems to suggest that since the Indian (or Pakistani) judicial system is not very efficient or fair therefore one should not comment on the American system. I hope I read that wrong. It would be a stupid position to take
 
Kshmendra
 
PS. Phoolan Devi in her mirth is likely to be joined by those who have been judged "guilty' in the USA and have been 'executed' with subsequent investigation/evidence proving them to be 'innocent'
 

--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net> wrote:


From: Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Aafia Siddiqui: The Terror-Industrial Complex
To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "Paul D. Miller" <anansi5000 at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 6:19 PM


Um, I hope that you do not see me defending the US judicial system. Although, for example, one can look at the Indian or Pakistani judicial system for guidance?

Phoolan Devi's spirit must be laughing somewhere!

Paul

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On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In my opinion, the jury-of-ordinary-citizens followed in the USA is a stupid system and only idiots would give it any kind of credible possibility that it can consistently deliver just judgements. Many factors can and will cloud competent and diligent evaluation of the evidence/arguments presented in court.
> 
> Is Dr Aafia's case yet another one of "Going Muslim" or is it yet another case of incarceration of innocents by USA/Pakistan/Afghanistan in pursuance of 'War on Terror'.
> 
> Either way it is extremely sad.
> 
> In what should be an indication of the mental state of Dr Aafia it has been reported that she wanted a meeting with President Obama and had the following statements to make on 9/11:
> 
> - "The President has to talk to me and this is the last opportunity I have once I'm sentenced … God, it's important, and please don't ignore me for the sake of God and this beautiful country."
> 
> - "I have information about attacks, more than 9/11, I want to help the president to end this group, to finish them,"
> 
> - "They are a domestic, US group, they are not Muslims. I am not lying, I swear"
> 
> http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Trial-Begins-for-Reputed-al-Qaida-Supporter--82049022.html
> 
> http://www.businessrecorder.com.pk/index.php?id=1010805&currPageNo=4&query=&search=&term=&supDate=
> 
> 
> 
> Kshmendra
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Aafia Siddiqui: The Terror-Industrial Complex
> To: "sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 3:04 AM
> 
> 
> reasonably interesting article
> Paul
> 
> The Terror-Industrial Complex
> 
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_terror-industrial_complex_20100208/
> 
> Truthdig Posted on Feb 8, 2010
> 
> By Chris Hedges
> 
> The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia
> Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill
> American military officers and FBI agents illustrates
> that the greatest danger to our security comes not from
> al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries,
> kidnappers, killers and torturers our government
> employs around the globe.
> 
> The bizarre story surrounding Siddiqui, 37, who
> received an undergraduate degree from MIT and a
> doctorate in neuroscience from Brandeis Univ