GUILTY MY LORD!

"The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."

From: The Shawshank Redumption

A few days back I saw a horror movie and trust me it was more horrifying than any of the exorcist or grudge series you know of. This movie is called “Black Friday”. It proves undoubtedly that the most terrifying creatures in this world are the humans. The human race has gone on to believe in its supernatural powers of deciding the fate of many others in matters of life and death. Now if the movie can scare you, try and think of the people who faced these atrocities and worse still of those who survived and are still engulfed in this.

Consider for a moment the matters of life and death, conviction and acquittal, true and false and more importantly right and wrong. Unfortunate as it seems all matters in life are not as simple as mathematics where ‘correct’ answers are available. So finally in order to decide whether the conclusion drawn in any sphere of life is right or wrong we seek refuge in the word ‘JUDGMENT’. Judgment leads to justice and justice leads to court and law or is it the other way round? For centuries laws have been framed, reframed, mended and bended as per the wish of rulers, framers, constitutionalists and people with such respectable and reverent connotations. So from where do these learned people derive their wisdom to prepare guidelines in order to decide the crime, sentence and in extreme cases death of a convict? A very well known and propagated notion is that above all courts lies our conscience. However the depictions of the world prove that availability of conscience on the market is very poor. A commodity boasted by the HR people needs to be advertised and marketed by the marketing experts. 
 
While conversing with a cousin of mine who happens to be an advocate I was able to reconfirm my belief that the number of people convicted for crimes are much less then the ones who actually commit them. Thanks to the old principle of law “Let one hundred guilty go free but not one innocent should not be convicted.” Having said that I realized that guilty and innocent are actually matters of perceptions. Do people committing heinous murders, homicides; rapes ever feel they have done something wrong? Let them apart there is another breed of people termed as professional lawyers. Their job is to help their client go free from the clutches of a number of statutes defined in thick volumes of law. Professionals as they are, they are also dedicated and determined to help their clients get a clean chit from the court of law. The defense as well as prosecution lawyer knows the truth and yet there are acquittals in a case where crime has been committed. Let us allow the guardians of law to seek recourse in the tussle between “Dharma” and “Karma” in order to account for their actions. Who then is the person accused of the crime? Is it the person who committed it, the person who abets him to surpass the law or is it the jury which declares ‘not guilty’? If an act was done someone is responsible and someone will have to pay. Who, we still don’t know. Do any of them truly believe that what they did was different from what should have been done? Do they ever close their eyes and speak “GUILTY MY LORD”.

Justice VS Fairness

Justice is defined as "The administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments." On the other hand fairness is described as "Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty". One question which has been baffling me for some time now is that are the two same or not. Does justice always concurs with fairness? If not, in which case both point in different directions then which is the one we should be walking towards? Does this world be based on the principles of justice or governed by laws of fairness.


Now what I plan to put forth might sound illogical, irrational and cruel but that is exactly what I want to debate with people around.  Because I feel its time we move out of our boundaries  or else erase them.

What does the old saying “An eye for an eye” project, Justice or fairness? If we go by the principles of justice this does not hold true. A person guilty of a crime is to be punished as per the laws of the land. Now who decides these laws? People like you and me. Are the laws same as we move across continents or as a matter of fact across borders? In a monosyllable ‘no’. That means the same crime calls for different punishment based on some writing in a fat book. However in terms of fairness “and eye for an eye” always holds true. So which is better justice or fairness? In words of Gandhi if this principle was to be followed then the world would be full of blind people. Now I propose a world which has all the people blind instead of only a few blind fighting for justice.  

Wouldn’t you like a scene where the teacher shouts at a student and the student gives it back to the teacher on the spot? What a sight would it be when eve teasers are forced to see the same torture being administered to their sisters. Let us not waste money, resources and plenty of years trying to figure out how to punish Ajmal Kasav. There is a simple solution. Bring his family members; shoot them in public and let him enjoy the sight. Send terrorists to Pakistan and bask in glory watching the footage of Indian terrorists blast Pakistan parliament on NDTV. Fair and square I suppose. Or is it not?

I know after reading this many of you will think that I am a radical thinker sounding absurd and idiotic. In short I have lost it. But trust me I am just getting started………..
 

Still ending, beginning still.........

Welcome one, welcome all. I know the title of my blog might sound a bit out of place for the post which will follow but I had a good reason for naming it this way. Two to three years back I started enjoying writing. I started communities on orkut and blogs on blogspot but could not write well enough to grab attention. Searching for members and readers I was hardly able to find more than a handful. However after a long hiatus I am back. But this someone else has brought me in here. I hope this time I can find some interesting and gripping material to put on board. But more than that what I need is "A Touch of Destiny".