[DEBATE] : Re: Business Day letter from Raymond Suttner

[MFleshman at aol.com]

Surprise surprise Peter is defending Zuma's bizarre and repellent behavior  
again -- and  with another reference to "the law" as if "the law" was in  any 
way related to justice. I suppose Vorster was equally entitled to use  whatever 
legal instruments apartheid gave him to defend that legal  system. White 
supremacy, like political trials, was not a high  school debate, but it was, or 
course, quite legal.
 
The mere fact that Zuma's second rape of the complainant was done  "legally" 
in a courtroom with lawyers and judges as accomplices, is, of course,  of no 
concern. Whether COSATU or SACP or the Women's League's silence on  this vile 
horror is embarrassed or calculated or complicit will make no  difference to 
the next poor woman who risks filing a rape charge.
 
In a message dated 4/26/2006 8:27:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
tshankimahlangu at yahoo.com writes:

One  wonders how else Zuma was expected to conduct his
defence against a person  who wants to see him spend 25
years in prison. People ought to understand  that
criminal trials are not high school debates. The man
is entitled to  use whatever instrument, harsh or soft,
the law allows him to rebut the  charges.