By: Kayhan Int’l
The recent sheepish admission by the US judicial authorities of the release of Craig Coley from almost forty years of wrongful imprisonment and the decision to pay him a petty sum of 21 million dollars – and that too in installments – for the loss of his years of manhood, is yet another proof of the tyrannical set of laws that governs the policies, both at home and abroad, of the United States of America.
A regime which is devoid of any human values, and thrives on threats and theatrics; deceit and domination; wars and bloodshed; occupation and exploitation other nations; and support for the usurpation of Palestine by the racist terrorist Zionists of mostly eastern Europe, is not expected to honour the dignity of human beings or that of the nations.
For the past forty years, Iran continues to be the prime victim of the extra territorial laws of Washington, which has subjected the Islamic Republic to all sorts of economic sanctions, in addition to political ploys, failed military aggression, acts of sabotage, terrorism, and freezing of scores of billions of dollars of Iranian money in US banks.
Coley’s case is not a solitary incident, since a review of the US judicial system reveals that 4.1 percent of defendants who are sentenced to death in the United States are later shown to be innocent, that is, 1 to 25. We don’t know about other kinds of criminal cases to estimate the rate of wrongful convictions in the US.
Coley was convicted in 1978 for the brutal murder of his fiancé and her 4-year old son, and put behind bars, despite his pleas that he didn’t commit the crime, which a serial killer had done.
No one listened to him and his case was almost forgotten, with judges, state governors, and presidents in the White House regularly marching in and out for over three decades, until a detective decided to probe the case and with the help of documented evidence proved him to be innocent of the charges.
Coley who was 33 years old at the time of his imprisonment and was looking forward to an enterprising life, is now, at the age of almost 73 years, a poor shadow of his former self.
It is obvious that no amount of money can make up for what happened to Coley, who will neither recover his youth nor the zest for life.
A couple of months ago, the unjust and unfair US authorities had detained and imprisoned Iran’s Press TV anchor, Marzieh Hashemi, who as an American citizen by birth was on a homecoming visit to see her ailing brother.
Hashemi, who is Afro-American, and was born a Christian before embracing the truth of Islam and marrying an Iranian Muslim, had moved to Iran where she is the mother of three grownup children.
Political pressure by Iran and the world’s conscientious people forced the US regime to release Marzieh Hashemi, but there are thousands of men and women, behind bars in the US where justice is denied to them.
It should also be noted that several Iranian nationals are languishing in jails in the US on trumped up charges, while the authorities continue to refuse to review their cases.
At the same time, it is common in the US for white police officers to shoot and kill black persons, without being answerable to anyone for their crimes.
The point is: Can such an unjust society survive for long?
It is obvious that it cannot. For the past 70-odd years, ever since the end of World War 2, the US has managed to survive on state terrorism, but this will not last long.
It is obvious that it cannot. For the past 70-odd years, ever since the end of World War 2, the US has managed to survive on state terrorism, but this will not last long.
Sooner, than later, the whole evil apparatus of the US will collapse like a cardboard house, and Insha Allah (God Willing), the world will eventually be without the US – and, of course, without the illegal Zionist regime and the treasonous Arab client regimes.
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