+292: For A Real Justice System
For anyone here involved in making penal laws here is an important test: Imagine that people you do not know from a country you do not know came to you and asked you to make their penal laws and you accept. Any difference in the laws between there and here should not be based on the mere difference in the identities of the people and countries between there and here. Justice systems should be rooted at being an individual not being a privileged group.
One thing about living powerless under an oppressive tyranny is that there is no moral call or obligation like here to correct what your representative government does to people elsewhere in the world. So while that call may press for more specific pointing let me at least speak in general terms and emphasize that we need to treat people in other countries the way we like to be treated. So by as much as we would have wanted no support for a dictatorship ruling us had we been living under one, we should not do that to people in other countries of the world. And yes the moral comparison should begin from this level, because democracy is the only just way and therefore none democratically elected regimes are stealing the countries they rule from their people. I want to be impowered by being on the right side not just protected by the mighty strength of my country.
Again, the Saudis have shown nothing justifying their attacks in Yemen as self defense, which is the only thing that would have permitted those attacks on another country, and the western powers also have no right to do such attacks just to balance out the powers there because of what they had done earlier to the other side (But I am also not denying how the attacks by the Saudis could have been much more devastating and careless about blood shedding if it were not for those western powers regulating them).
But it would be a different matter for the western powers if they seek to do something as good to the people as establishing a democratic system there and those actions are done only by as much as necessary for that purpose. While there may be fear for a repetition of what happened in Iraq, given that there is a militia there that seems capable of having the control on the country if it were not for attacks by air strikes from external military powers, the environment here seems to be far from being similar to that of Iraq, if the militia here chooses democracy which is the only just solution for everywhere.
I am not a law professional and before trying to take a look at that thing people talk about called the second amendment, less than ten years ago, I was not even sufficiently clear on what role it should play. But now that I am better in understanding that and have read the Constitution of this country, I wonder about the additional complication related to writing a new constitution for Iraq during the more urgent stage at the beginning of establishing a democratic system there. How much could people differ in their need at such a starting point and for a thing that allows being amended like this constitution? Actually, it even just require restricting the mode of amending stated there to only public voting, to make approval of amendments caries the same validity as approval of the Constitution.
Now for the situation in Yemen, those who are really for democracy, whoever they are, are the good guys, and those who oppose that are the bad guys no matter who they are, and the Constitution of this country, with its amendments, is one ready starting point for beginning a democratic process everywhere.
