tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833518530559679192.post6660227369078501247..comments2023-09-29T08:07:48.323-07:00Comments on oneheartforpeace: Barbaric: 86-Year Sentence for Aafia Siddiqui - by Andy WorthingtonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833518530559679192.post-1323186744253356512010-09-25T05:28:23.284-07:002010-09-25T05:28:23.284-07:00Some of the comments on Andy Worthington's art...Some of the comments on Andy Worthington's article at Huff Post (where you'd expect an everything goes mentality) were from people who obviously hadn't even looked under the rug one iota. <br /><br />Yet there were some apt ones as well such as:<br /><br />"U.S. has always had a 'throw away the keys' mentality. it was Bill Clinton who helped introduce the '3 strikes' law in the U.S. where a person can find himself facing life in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Congress imposed draconian 'mandatory minimum' sentencing straightjackets on court judges. No punishment is ever seen to be enough. 10 year sentence on an eighty year old? Give him 20! Cop shows regularly crack jokes about endemic prison rape as they handcuff prisoners."<br /><br />Although of course, if you'd read enough about the trial, you'd know that there was NO EVIDENCE at all proven in that trial for the only charge ever leveled against Aafia finally. So NO time would have been the right and honest result. (me in response to the first)<br /><br />Other comments under Andy Worthington's at Huff Post:<br /><br />The U.S. justice system is like the U.S. healthcare system - we *imagine* its far more just and equitable than it really is.<br /><br />U.S. has always had a 'throw away the keys' mentality.<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/MikeDu/barbaric-86-year-sentence_b_737738_61602773.html<br /><br />The whole thing is strange. What motive would the US have to kidnap and torture an innocent woman? I have never read even a plausible story as to what might have happened, so the 86 years makes it look like there's something we don't know. But the author seems to know a lot more than I do, since he is certain that this is a miscarriage of justice.<br /><br />VictorPurinton: The whole thing is strange. What motive would the US<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/VictorPurinton/barbaric-86-year-sentence_b_737738_61573723.html<br /><br />Judgment speaks itself of the American justice system influenced by its government. 86 years sentence just for a person, who herself, was shot twice, lost her children, health and dignity, is the most condemnable verdict I have ever witnessed.<br /><br />They would do this to cover up the crimes they committed during her detention. They don't want her to reveal the horrible facts about her sudden disappearance to avoid the wrath of American public.CNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877484524704475807noreply@blogger.com