Tag Archives: Justice

A Life Sentence?

February 10, 2012 By in Habeas Corpus, Hard Facts, Hate, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

In Germany? I don’t think so.

“An Islamic extremist who admitted killing two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport last year has been convicted of murder. The state court in Frankfurt found 22-year-old Arid Uka guilty Friday and sentenced him to life in prison for the March 2 attack on Afghanistan-bound servicemen as they boarded a bus at the airport.”

Well, that simply isn’t true. You may have known that there is no death penalty in Germany, but don’t be tricked by that ridiculous “life in prison” misnomer that Germans like to use all the time (lebenslänglich). Nobody spends life in prison here.

What Germans mean with a life sentence (in Germany) is 15 years. After that the convict gets paroled. Or, as in this terribly severe case, paroled and then “threatened” with possible  deportation.

Uka droht nach seiner Haft die Abschiebung.

“Now I’m going to talk!”

June 16, 2011 By in Habeas Corpus Tags: , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

What, you (or your lawyers) didn’t talk during the trial?

It’s cash in, I mean payback time for Claudia D., I guess. She’s telling all or something, now that the celebrity weatherman she accused of having raped her has been acquitted.

No DNA was found on the knife allegedly used in the incident, the origin of a bruise on the woman’s leg remained unclear, and it was shown that the woman had lied about a detail of the incident.

„Ich bin mit dem Freispruch nicht einverstanden.“

You’re Guilty So You Go Free

May 12, 2011 By in Habeas Corpus, History Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Well don’t ask me. That’s just how the system works here.

Germany’s “last major Holocaust trial” had to end this way, didn’t it? A German court found John Demjanjuk guilty of a abetting the killing of 27,900 people but then set him free despite the, uh, five year sentence.

Well he did have to sit through an eighteen month trial, you know.

The trial, he said, amounted to “torture.”

The weatherman’s out!

August 2, 2010 By in Habeas Corpus, Hysteria Tags: , , , , , , , 2 Comments

And he’s guilty until proven guilty. Lock your doors already.

They’re going at him big time too, although everything you read about the ex-girfriend’s allegations of rape sounds pretty, uh, flaky at best. And I hate weathermen too. Man oh man, this one’s going to go on forever.

“Wir nehmen gerade die Hauptverhandlung vorweg.”