Stop the orgy of arrests
Published by BO18 on - 3/17/2007Following the suicide-attack of some egoist-islamist nutjob in Casablanca, the Moroccan government decided to have another "crackdown" and arrested 18 suspects.
Morocco has a very rich history of arresting tens of suspects at the same time.
But we damn well know that usually this is just a big show. The Moroccan government can't expect the people to believe that all of them are actual accomplices or had something to do with the attacks.
This is just a dirty, inhuman, un-free way of working.
On one hand I'm happy with every blow the government brings to the islamist nutjobs, I prefer to see a Morocco where everybody has the right to be free. In that field Morocco is not perfect, but the current government/regime are the only ones who can make the step forward. Islamist nutjobs are only able to make a step backwards ( a couple of centuries backwards)
On the other hand, I'm against this type of mass-arrests. Arrests that will only further anger some segments of the population.
It's not an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". Somebody needs to have the upper-hand. Don't let the islamist nutjobs be the one.
A little bit of decent justice, won't do anybody harm.
Morocco has a very rich history of arresting tens of suspects at the same time.
But we damn well know that usually this is just a big show. The Moroccan government can't expect the people to believe that all of them are actual accomplices or had something to do with the attacks.
This is just a dirty, inhuman, un-free way of working.
On one hand I'm happy with every blow the government brings to the islamist nutjobs, I prefer to see a Morocco where everybody has the right to be free. In that field Morocco is not perfect, but the current government/regime are the only ones who can make the step forward. Islamist nutjobs are only able to make a step backwards ( a couple of centuries backwards)
On the other hand, I'm against this type of mass-arrests. Arrests that will only further anger some segments of the population.
It's not an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". Somebody needs to have the upper-hand. Don't let the islamist nutjobs be the one.
A little bit of decent justice, won't do anybody harm.
1 Comment:
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these guys were arrested, but NOT SENTENCED. Some will just be released after hearing, other might be charged for complicity or else and have a trial. this is normal. it's pretty much the same as the spanish reaction after Madrid train bombings was, on another scale of course.
March 18, 2007 at 1:47 PM
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