Justice Delayed


I heard the news earlier today that Abu Hamza and a group of fellow terrorist suspects - are finally to be extradited to America.

Which prompted the following thought to jump into my mind.

How can the legal process have been allowed to drag on for all these years - more than 8 in total - while various appeals were held, all of which turned out to be spurious?

Now this time frame is longer than either the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) or World War II (1939 to 1945) for that matter - which puts the whole sordid business into perspective. 

Justice delayed is justice denied, as they say - yet the legal process has been cynically used in this case - to prevent serious criminal suspects from having to face their accusers.

Maybe it will give Julian Assange pause for thought as he sits in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - in a desperate attempt to prevent his extradition to Sweden where he faces charges of sexual assault.

Julian of course used the UK's legal system to delay and frustrate his extradition - but was released on bail which allowed him to jump ship to the Ecuadorian Embassy - when his legal options finally ran out.

Now the wealthy backers who put up Julian's bail money - £250,000 reportedly - will lose the funds they put down to secure his release.

Serves them right, in my view - they must all have more money than sense.

Because the Wikileaks founder clearly cannot be trusted as a man of his word - which is what his release on bail was all about - a solemn promise to abide by his bail conditions and play by the rules.

Yet as soon as he lost his legal fight - Julian was off playing the martyr again.

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