penal colony justice

From the reading I chose the following passage fore my writting:

“‘But surely he knows that he has been sentenced?’ ‘Nor that either,’ said the officer, smiling at the explorer as if expecting him to make further surprising remarks. ‘No,’ said the explorer, wiping his forehead, ‘then he can’t know whether his defense was effective?’ ‘He has had no chance of putting up a defense,’ said the officer… ‘But he must have had some chance of defending himself,’ said the explorer,” (pg. 197).

This book is very interesting and immediately catches your interest and attention. This officer has been given the power to run this machine in which causes pain upon its victim. This is the colonys current for of "justice" although they are being to turn away from this technique. I dont believe that this machine serves justice to the victim at all. The man isn't just tortured a little, it is excruciating pain for relentless hours and he ends up dying from this. The words that are carved into his body are not just a reminder of his "fault", but the machine runs until the poor victim is without life and blood. The fact that the person that is to undergo this torture receives no sort of trial or even questioned about the event that is brought against him is rediculous. This cannot serve justice for people can be wrong. A persons perception of a situation could be incorrect and for that reason a trial system should exist. This colony keep the "criminal" in the dark on what he is in trouble for, what his punishment, or even when it is, until he is to be tortured. He learns of his crime through the writtings that to be to placed on his body.

This oddly enough actually relates still today. After watching that movie on Thur. I have just made the connection. The men in The Farm, once sentenced, are given very little, if any, chance to defend themselves and possibly there innocents. It took that one man 17 years to gather all the evidence thawt was placed against him. They are left in the dark and have virtually no say in there case. This is a wrong system of government. It wasn't right then and it isn't right now. This is not supposewd to be the great American Judicial system thast keeps our country running strong! This is an unfair and corrupt system that needs to be changed. Ahhh! here i go ranting again...