The 60 minutes segment yesterday of a miscarriage of justice..aninnocent human being ,
abandoned to solitary confinement in a high resolution in tough prison for 35 years, with a one hour recess out in the yard, gives rise to Paul Muni playing out “The Prisoner of Shark Island” many moons ago when our planet was in birth pangs of a depression and it was a desperate time to put food o n the table for a nation of first blood immigrants.
II
In all the hiccups and sweat of cyberspace, the social networks of Twitter and Facebook, the hacking lyon thievery of technology gone astray, CBS’s minute by minute torture of an African ancestor by a sadistic
Southern prosecutor trying to make a name for himself, a jury of all Caucasians,
Convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that this child of share croppers was to be put to a lingering
Spiritual death for over 35 years in in solitary confement for a murder of a Caucasian man, whose lawn he gardened. A crime he never com mitted…
III
Growing up in East Brooklyn, we were conscious of Murder Inc….the Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegal gang wars wars ,gangsters being pushed out of Coney Island hotel windows. But for a “Fugitive from a Chain Gang” being embraced by a systemto render equal justice before the frailty of all believers is beyond
any “stacking the deck “ for 600 million victims of Hitler’ persecution”
IV
Not to rub in the system’s ego trip gone blind when new evidence of a consciousness of those culprits…the consciousness of their “swagger” ,married to the system, they denied the hundreds
of hundreds of thousands $, which the State’s Constitution, provided in instances of miscarriage of justice..
V
To hold up the mirror to such tyranny and infamy in our own land of immigrants from near and far, is b beyond compassionand empathy?.
Where is Clarence Darrow?
The Scriptures “we are our brother’s keeper”.
Augst 5, 2016…..CBS’s “60 minutes”
