Lies told by the police (Police lied to catch baby killer,
(July 22) to obtain a conviction, lies upheld by the Supreme Court,
undermine and potentially make a travesty of the entire edifice of New
Zealand’s justice system.
Note that Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias dissented from the Supreme Court’s approval of this shabby business, perhaps because her presumably Jewish heritage has
written the Decalogue and its Eighth Commandment - ‘Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour’ - into her very bones.
Why did the police go to such lengths to trap a mere boy (at the time of
his offence), floundering out of his moral depth after finding himself father to
premature twins at age seventeen? Was it a knee-jerk response to the outpouring
of anger over child abuse in this country?
If so, their machinations have served
simply to aggravate our difficulties. We must remember that the ends never
justify the means.
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