today in my inbox I see that on Thursday there is torture accountability day where people will rally to hold people like UC Berkeley's John Yoo accountable for torture.
Up until a week ago when I was off at work camp, I had felt very strongly about the issue, but now I am beginning to wonder if the torturers didn't do us all a favor? I wonder on what "ground" we stand when we convict those torturers?
Would the prosecutions just be another form of "bailout"? In this case instead of an economic one, a a political bailout? Then today, Bernie Madoff gets long prison sentence, but isn't he just another fall guy?
The problem here is that we give up our own power and ability of discernment by engaging with the justice system, because the justice "system" is not consistent with a positive world vision. The justice system is another manifestation of the industrial civilization, earth destroying, machine.
Here's the largest flaw in the system: it presents all people as individuals, and ignores the fact that there is an obvious hiearachy in terms of damages to the community to different crimes.
I want a justice system that is willing to find facts and convict people, but suspend their sentence until such time that larger, related criminals can be brought to justice. How can one prosecute crime of robbing a bank while ignoring the crime of starting a bank?
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