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Injustice

It's a sad fact that authority is generally not on the side of the people. Individuals are often persecuted and arbitrarily punished by The Establishment. Having a system of LAW might be assumed to provide some justice, but quite often law is severely open to abuse by The System. It's worse in some countries than others, but the problem of institutionalised mucking-up of people's lives is a general situation.

Up until recently it was very difficult to do much about it, as The Establishments had all the power, and we the individuals did not. But now, with freedom on the Internet, we can at least have our stories heard. It's more difficult for the Big Brother system to maintain its control over public relations when we write about what's happened to us.

Although there might be folk who would say it doesn't do any good because the Government continues regardless of what people say or think, and people don't vote for politicians, we can at least stop the Government(s) pretending that they are perfect. Even as early as 2007, people are already starting to realise that most other people don't like their government, and the point about that is that it's much harder for a system to remain in power under a myth of democracy when the greater proportion of the people despise The System.

This particular page has a few hints of Libertarianism, but the mid-range political situations will be on other pages. So if you're looking for material about the problems in Burma, Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp, Tibet, North Korea, the mistreatment of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, legal oppression in Singapore, these belong on other pages, some of which are yet to be created. On this page, we have individual stories of injustice where a person can write about their own mistreatment at the hands of the evil tyranny, fake democracy, corrupt police clique, or whatever other type of oppression they are subject to.

Here are a few examples to start with:

Fred Salaff - victim to "guilty until proven innocent" authorities.

Free Gary McKinnon from the oppressive government persecution.

Police Dishonesty in San Ignacio, Belize - the page also contains links to several other Belize police corruption stories.

Patrick Malluzzo - an innocent backpacker jailed and tortured by the authorities in Mumbai, India.

Darby Penney: Cover-up over state imposed forced electric shock in New York - mad people and other dissidents beware!

Debra Ridgley: There is not enough evidence to prove much but initially it looks as if she was framed (searches for "Debra Ridgley" reveal various sites, with accounts of varying accuracy).

It is suspected that cases like this corrupt police drug framing incident in the Philippines are common in some places, and it only takes a few such problems to put off expats and tourists who would be good for the economy

Also see Fair Trials Abroad and Fair Trials International

Chemistry website www.kno3.com : some UK people who set up a website selling chemicals to chemistry enthusiasts now victimised, persecuted, and extradited to the USA on trumped-up accusations based on the idea that basic chemicals can be used to make drugs.

What does this achieve, highlighting such cases? It's a bit like having a radar showing numerous instances of rotten food in restaurants: people tend to choose to eat in different places if they know about how bad the worst places are. Globally, this technique has an impact on bad regimes as people tend to "vote with their feet" in various ways.