Wednesday 16 May 2012

News of The World: When Justice is Served!...


The news brief came through the radio on a charity shop yesterday morning:
“Rebekah Brooks as been charged with subverting the course of justice in the phone hacking scandal”…
A man got closer to the radio and cheered the news while saying to us (the shopkeeper and I): “She’s been charged, well done!” I said, also enthusiastically: “Yes, justice was served!” The man: “Which is not usual!” I: “Yes, but this is one of those cases when it should really work and it did!... And I know the importance of this being as I am facing issues of press intrusion, hacking, defamation, etc., without any hope that justice will ever be done in my case, because it comes from a country where there are no effective laws and when there are, no one bothers about their implementation, especially in this sort of cases…”.
The man: “where are you from”? I: “Angola.” The man: “Oh!... Is the press there foreign-owned”?
I: “Yes, most of the new private press, but since independence all the existing press was state-owned until recently”. We talked a little bit more and then I said: “I really respect your country for showing us all that somewhere in the world justice does exist and can be put to work effectively”! The man: “It’s not my country, but I agree with you, at least as far as this case is concerned”. I asked: “Where are you from?” The man: “New Zealand.” He talked a bit about the press in his country and then we said goodbye with him wishing me: “good luck with your case!”
Of course I said "thank you"! And how I wish that would really happen in my case!...

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The news brief came through the radio on a charity shop yesterday morning:
“Rebekah Brooks as been charged with subverting the course of justice in the phone hacking scandal”…
A man got closer to the radio and cheered the news while saying to us (the shopkeeper and I): “She’s been charged, well done!” I said, also enthusiastically: “Yes, justice was served!” The man: “Which is not usual!” I: “Yes, but this is one of those cases when it should really work and it did!... And I know the importance of this being as I am facing issues of press intrusion, hacking, defamation, etc., without any hope that justice will ever be done in my case, because it comes from a country where there are no effective laws and when there are, no one bothers about their implementation, especially in this sort of cases…”.
The man: “where are you from”? I: “Angola.” The man: “Oh!... Is the press there foreign-owned”?
I: “Yes, most of the new private press, but since independence all the existing press was state-owned until recently”. We talked a little bit more and then I said: “I really respect your country for showing us all that somewhere in the world justice does exist and can be put to work effectively”! The man: “It’s not my country, but I agree with you, at least as far as this case is concerned”. I asked: “Where are you from?” The man: “New Zealand.” He talked a bit about the press in his country and then we said goodbye with him wishing me: “good luck with your case!”
Of course I said "thank you"! And how I wish that would really happen in my case!...

[More details here]


Related Posts:

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(contra) Argumentando no Vazio

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