Monday, February 12, 2007

Whose Justice Is It Anyway?

It's not our personal sense of justice we're looking for when we talk about Justice. Too many people take justice for granted. If you know a certain act of government or an act of those that govern has ended in injustice, then for sure that is when we want Justice most of all. I don't think we all want justice all the time, because if we had it all the time; WHAT! I think there would be a lot of long faces and tears shedding, because we didn't know vengeance from whose it is, would be so strong.

Let's be honest, it's vengeance we want.

Really when we ask for justice, we're asking for mercy. We even know the mechanics of how the injustice was done. A lawyer has the hardest time navigating the deep, dark, muddied waters of post-conviction relief in a wrongful conviction case.

Amnesty International issued a terse statement about the case of Gary Tyler, now termed a political prisoner after three decades! I repeat, Is This America. What about all the other cases?


So now, a federal court has awarded a man $14,000,000.00; payable by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office. Now, this is what I call Louisiana Justice. The DA is a black man, today. The DA then was a white man. So, the broken Orleans Parish Criminal Justice System has the debt to pay as some sort of symbolic gesture of the federal court's displeasure. This, that's going on in Louisiana, has been going on forever. Justice is what justice does.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Urgent Petition to Free Gary Tyler

Yesterday Amnesty International renewed it's call to Gov Blanco for Tyler's release

In the last couple of weeks, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert has written three articles about Gary Tyler, a 15-year-old African American
teenager in Louisiana who was sentenced to death in 1975 and has remained in
prison for more than thirty-two years -- with no end in sight -- for a
crime he did not commit.

This case is symbolizes both continuing backlash against the Civil
Rights movement of the 1960s and 70s, and the fundamental racism of the
criminal justice system today.*

PLEASE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR GARY TYLER BY SIGNING
-- AND ASKING EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO SIGN -- THE PETITION AT:
www.freegarytyler.com/petition.php

To help organize on Gary's behalf, please contact info@freegarytyler.com.

*Herbert's final article in Thursday's NYT is below. Additional
articles and information are posted at: www.freegarytyler.com
as well as statement from Amnesty International.