On Justice

After having recently written   “Bias against one = favouritism for another”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/07/bias-against-one-favouritism-for-another.html   and   “Good news from Mexico City”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/07/good-news-from-mexico-city.html   , and having carefully followed the work of the Yoorrook Justice Commission (see   https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/   ,   https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/public-hearing/   ,   https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/hearings/   ,   https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/evidence-library/   ,   https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/submissions-library/   ,   and   https://www.youtube.com/@yoorrookjusticecommission   ) and even making a couple of submissions,   the following article resonated strongly:    

 

“Canada owes First Nations billions after making ‘mockery’ of treaty deal, top court rules”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/26/canada-payment-first-nations-indigenous-treaty-deal   “Court urges federal and Ontario governments to make payouts after ‘dishonourably’ neglecting 174-year-old deal”     

 

My nation and home state don’t have an agreed treaty, but there are lesser agreements which and admissions of failure to pass on agreed dues which this might be a precedent for ... but I have my hopes mainly invested in the upcoming negotiations between the State Government ( https://www.vic.gov.au/ ) and the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria ( https://www.firstpeoplesvic.org/ ) under the oversight of the Treaty Authority ( https://treatyauthority.au/ ) for a treaty. 

I am also, on this cold, rainy winter’s day, I am having a justice movie-athon, including: 

• “Labyrinth of Lies”, about the trial of people charged under German domestic law (not international humanitarian laws) for their crimes at N_zi concentration/extermination camps - which raised a few points: 
• “Bauer complained that the media treated the accused in such a manner as to imply that they were all freakish monsters, which allowed the German public to distance themselves from feeling any moral guilt about what had happened at Auschwitz, which was instead presented as the work of a few sick people who were not at all like normal Germans” (from here); 
• “Bauer charged that the judges, in convicting the accused, had made it appear that Germany in the Nazi era had been an occupied country, with most Germans having no choice but to follow orders. He said, “but this ... had nothing to do with historical reality. There were virulent nationalists, imperialists, anti-Semites and Jew-haters. Without them, Hitler was unthinkable”” (from here); 
• allegations of protecting the bigger criminals to allow prosecution of the lesser - see https://www.jta.org/archive/auschwitz-trial-prosecutor-charges-major-war-criminals-protected ;  and 
• “The men on trial in Frankfurt were tried only for murders and other crimes that they committed on their own initiative at Auschwitz and were not tried for genocidal actions perpetrated "when following orders", considered by the courts to be the lesser crime of accomplice to murder” (from here);
  

• the movies “Denial” (I found this excellent - especially regarding focusing on evidence/proof when needed; see also here, here, and here - and some people are always flat earthers in various areas of life ... and I agree that there are flat earthers who should not be engaged with/given the oxygen of publicity) and “Truth” (which I found a bit ... meh - unconvincing), which I have not seen before; and 
• if I have time and energy, “The Post”, and maybe some similar  movies.
  

I used to watch the movie “Gandhi” in these sorts of sessions, but find that difficult to do since I discovered Gandhi’s sex-negative and abusive “celibacy test”.

 

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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