It's like wit (Hume, I believe) and cannot be trained or purchased.
On Jul 13, 8:00�am, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe wisdom to be a personal attribute and quite rare. I don't
> believe it can be related to society in general and specifically not
> to the judicial system. In a sense, the rarity of wisdom could be
> described as a good thing, because if everybody was wise, people would
> not have much to say to each other. [Just kidding, I know you are all
> wise and have a lot to say :-]
>
> On Jul 13, 4:56�am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I mentioned the case of Nico Bento in another thread. �My academic
> > career is over and I'm hoping to get on with something worthwhile. �I
> > feel wisdom has deserted the system of our society almost entirely and
> > that we might glean some understanding of what wisdom might be by
> > looking at what it clearly isn't in practice. �One of the categories
> > I'm looking at is miscarriages of justice.
>
> > Nico Bento is a Portuguese man living in England. �He was convicted of
> > the murder of his girlfriend four years ago and is now a free man.
> > She drowned in a lake and was a Polish woman of 26. �The most
> > interesting facts are these:
>
> > 1. There was no forensic evidence of murder. �She was not strangled,
> > there were no signs of any struggle and her clothes were neatly piled
> > up on the lakeside, causing a passer-by to phone police.
> > 2. Bento called police to report her missing and try to get them to do
> > something.
> > 3. Her white handbag with a shoulder strap was in Bento's flat.
> > 4. She was depressive, working as a cleaner and had given up her
> > college course.
> > 5. There is CCTV footage of her walking along the river footpath
> > towards the lake just before she died. �No one is with her, and to the
> > layman's eye it is obvious she is not carrying the said bag. �This has
> > been shown on the BBC Newsnight programme. �I could not see the bag.
> > 6. Bedfordshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service produced an
> > expert witness, Casey Cordell from Los Angeles tom prove she was
> > carrying the white bag in the CCTV footage. �He said it could be
> > evidenced from a shadow on the ground.
> > 7. �Bento was convicted on the grounds that the bag was in his flat
> > and the implication he must have been at the scene of the death and
> > carried it back.
> > 8. �British forensic scientists, including John Kennedy, then of our
> > official Forensic Science Service, a world-renowned expert all
> > concluded there was no evidence of the bag in the CCTV footage. �This
> > evidence was not disclosed to the defence and suppressed at the trial.
> > 9. �Cordell, the US "expert" was a known fantacist �and has since
> > topped himself. �When asked to write-up his findings by other experts
> > he clammed-up and tried to character assassinate other experts.
> > 10. �A reconstruction clearly demonstrates the "shadow" of the bag
> > claimed by Cordell is present without the bag being carried (it's of a
> > park bench) and the bag can be clearly seen in footage from the same
> > camera in similar conditions anyway. �The CCTV footage of the night in
> > question is actually evidence of the non-presence of the bag.
> > 11. �There is substantial evidence of a suicide risk despite police
> > ruling this out.
> > 12. �There is no real evidence at all against Bento. �What should have
> > been evidence of the eye in his support was turned, perversely, to
> > evidence against him, cops and prosecutors choosing to bend the case
> > against him.
>
> > We not only convicted an innocent man, but persist in covering-up the
> > miscarriage of justice. �Kennedy is subject to a 'gagging order'.
> > Cops claim the reconstruction is 'bollocks'. �There is no explanation
> > of why vital evidence was not disclosed to the defence or why the
> > defence was so bad. �In short, all the evidence in this case
> > demonstrates a massive cock-up and a conspiracy to pervert the course
> > of justice (even if a conspiracy of idiots) that should have been
> > prevented by fair play and adherence to the rules. �Murder enquiries
> > of this kind usually involve a designated police officer handling
> > 'disclosure'. �It should be utterly impossible to suppress evidence
> > relevant to the defence. �There is a long history of similar cases,
> > including utterly fatuous 'ritual abuse' cases and dismal police
> > actions against 'terrorists' (classic ones of 'being Irish in the
> > wrong place' and 'shooting innocent Brazilians').
>
> > What I believe cases like this exemplify is a lack of wisdom and
> > integrity and the presence of some kind of 'dirty hands philosophy'
> > used to justify what is, in fact, an idiot ideology of power. �I fear,
> > perhaps at the extreme, that this is "why" we are in Iraq and
> > Afghanistan and even that some "nightmare tyranny" is involved. �It is
> > as though we dare not put the facts to public scrutiny and must
> > instead present a skewed case because the crooks and "evil" will
> > somehow triumph if "we" try to use open means and do not match their
> > secret cunning with ours. �Virtue somehow becomes an 'idiot ploy'.
>
> > What we need is for our system to be open to clear and patient public
> > scrutiny in order that we can act in trust. �However difficult these
> > matters are, what is clear is that this is precisely what we don't
> > do. �I suggest wisdom has lapsed to Machiavelli with the sad rider
> > that even he might well have been a satirist trying to open up dark
> > practices to public scrutiny.- Hide quoted text -
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