Ghosts

Ghosts

It is not Charles Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Past that has been haunting the so-called justice system. It is the specter of atrocities past and present for which many condemn it as unworthy of the name.

Those “adverse events” include the extrajudicial killings (EJKs), kidnappings, drug trading and other high crimes some police officers have been involved in, but for which they have not been made accountable; the issuance by certain judges of warrants of arrest against independent journalists, political and social activists, and government critics without a whit of evidence for which they have not been disciplined; and the mysterious deaths of high-profile inmates that occur even in the jails that are crammed to the rafters with prisoners in this high-crime country.

All have convinced many that the pursuit of justice is as futile as the hope that the mass of the electorate of these troubled isles will ever elect the leaders that will bring it out of the Stone Age and into the 21^st century.

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