Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Justice is blind...

... at least in Dubai. It can feel money and nationality though.

Music producer Austin Dallas proudly carried cocaine into the country, waved it in front of Dubai Police, and left, without any kind of punishment. Wonderful.

What is the point of having a court in Dubai anyway? "Dubai Courts" should be renamed as "Bank of Justice". Deposit some money and get justice as interest.

I remember an incident when I was nine and living in Karama.

I had a group of friends who I used to play with downstairs between two buildings and their parking lots. The guard/cleaner of one used to hate for God knows what reason (we used to not shout, play with balls or jump on cars... the Arab kids used to do that). He kept trying to scare us away. We asked our parents to talk to the fat GCC guy but he was so thick-skinned he would just grunt in return. One day I was playing with my friend A. and some other kids when he came to shoo us away. A.'s mom (who was pregnant for eight months) was there and she tried to argue with him. The man became very aggressive and started to push her roughly with his hand. She called for her husband who came running out of nowhere and pulled the GCC guy away. There they had a big physical fight 'till some passers-by pulled them apart and called the police.

The Police came and listened to A.'s father's story and were getting ready to arrest the GCC guy when one of his GCC friends came to help him. There those two GCC guys took the Arab policeman aside and had a long chat in Arabic. After ten minutes the policeman gave A's father a warning, said bye bye to the GCC guy and left.

After this incident my mom stopped having me go down to play so often near the GCC guy. What wonderful justice. First assault a pregnant woman, then fight with her husband, then have a friendly chat with a policeman and go back to your house. Justice has been served.

posted by DubaiTeen @ 2:25 PM