COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SIMON JENKINS IN THE
GUARDIAN
"Britain’s
criminal justice system is in disarray."
Perhaps.
And perhaps it is just the nation's very sense of justice
that has corroded away.
We do have highly suggestive evidence for the latter.
Theresa May's accusations against Russia are absolutely without
evidence of any description. No one even knows whether an attack even happened,
much less whether someone is responsible.
Judgment and punishment and name-calling and threats from the
offices of the nation's leaders? And pretty much complete support from the
corporate press with no challenges or questions asked? Now, that's my idea of a seriously corroded
sense of justice.
And we have the equally unproved charges against Jeremy Corbyn,
flagrant and insulting charges, again shouted with absolutely no evidence, day
after day, and dutifully reported in The Guardian as though they, ipso facto, had
substance, almost always with no opportunity for readers to comment and often
amplified by to-the purpose articles by columnists.
And here the charges are not made against a distant foreign
leader but against one of your own, one of the most decent and fair-minded
politicians in Europe.
That, too, is very much my idea of a terribly corroded sense
of justice.
These matters involve more than just unfairness, they are
threats to the very foundations of way Britain is governed.
