Notice: This is horrible for me, the long weekend means an extended limited access to the web. Worse, I fear that my data could have been lost.
Here is an example of the futility of the War on Drugs
From the Inquirer.net
Here we see how government enforces a law but fails to successfully prosecute out of sheer incompetence. One can argue that this may be deliberate or not.
Another, this also shows how the war on drugs is nothing more than a tool for politicization or the law is used for political ends.
Next, the above exhibits the arbitrary or selective application of the law as the well-off can get off the hook or the system can be gamed. One can call this political inequality.
To add, government's action represents unwarranted coercion. The failure to prosecute means civil liberties of the accused have been trampled.
This goes to show that noble intentions can't square with reality or that the applied cure is worse than the disease.
Here is an example of the futility of the War on Drugs
From the Inquirer.net
A “glaring blunder” in the handling of evidence has led to the acquittal of two of the so-called “Alabang Boys” arrested in 2008 for the alleged possession and sale of 60 “ecstasy” tablets.
“That (breach) in the chain of custody of evidence became a fatal flaw,” Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Friday after a Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court judge dismissed the charges against Richard Brodett and Jorge Joseph, citing the prosecution’s failure to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Here we see how government enforces a law but fails to successfully prosecute out of sheer incompetence. One can argue that this may be deliberate or not.
Another, this also shows how the war on drugs is nothing more than a tool for politicization or the law is used for political ends.
Next, the above exhibits the arbitrary or selective application of the law as the well-off can get off the hook or the system can be gamed. One can call this political inequality.
To add, government's action represents unwarranted coercion. The failure to prosecute means civil liberties of the accused have been trampled.
This goes to show that noble intentions can't square with reality or that the applied cure is worse than the disease.
1 comment:
That's terrible sir. I hope you retrieve your data. My computer is old and the parts are slowly failing every now and then.
It's a sad reality that doesn't only occur here in our country and is really nothing new. If we want change, it must be a collective effort on the part of all - to have a system that is genuinely impartial.
However, a lawyer once told me - there's the law - and there's reality.
Sad but unfortunately true.
Anyway, in the US, they have low-medium security prisons for the high profile people. what is your take on this?
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