“A single thread holds a life — until justice forgets what it’s for.”
Een enkel draadje houdt een leven bijeen — tot justitie vergeet waarvoor ze bestaat.
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An unflinching look at a justice system turned on its head—where no crime existed, but lives were shattered. Conscience was ignored, and truth silenced.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
What if you were forced to defend yourself against a crime that never existed?
This page confronts the terrifying absurdity at the heart of modern justice systems: the ability to prosecute the innocent with confidence, consistency, and complete institutional backing — even when the facts say otherwise. In such a system, reason is sidelined, truth becomes inconvenient, and conscience is simply ignored.
Here, we explore real-world examples where official processes replaced moral judgment, and loyal citizens were sacrificed to protect reputations. When justice loses its anchor in truth, it becomes a machinery of harm — unaccountable, unwavering, and devastating.
Justitie – Een zijden draadje en een falend geweten – Maatschappelijke ontwrichting
“Wie mensen absurditeiten kan laten geloven, kan ze ook wreedheden laten begaan.”
Voltaire
Deze pagina werpt een onthutsend licht op een harde realiteit: hoe levens verwoest kunnen worden door instellingen die ons juist zouden moeten beschermen.
Wanneer het geweten wordt genegeerd en de waarheid wordt verdraaid, houdt gerechtigheid op te bestaan — en wordt zij een wapen.
Hier tonen we echte voorbeelden waarin officiële procedures de plaats innemen van moreel kompas, en loyale burgers worden opgeofferd om reputaties te beschermen.
Wanneer gerechtigheid haar anker in waarheid verliest, verandert zij in een vernietigende machine — ongrijpbaar, onwankelbaar en mensonterend.
The Absurdity
As will become clear in the nine pages below
These nine pages are not just stories.
They are windows into a world where the impossible became real, and justice was turned upside down.
Each page offers a glimpse into the unthinkable — and every word is true.
Impossible to imagine–and yet, it happened.
Critical Thinking on Intrinsically Unjust Systems
How the system knowingly sacrificed the innocent
A Leopard Can’t Change Its Spots: The Unjust Systems
So Far from the Truth: Beyond Absurdity, Inhuman Cruelty
Language to Avoid or Hide the Truth – Post Office Inquiry
Balancing Justice and People with Good Values
Justice Without Conscience: The Impossible Made Real
Justice: A Jungle Where the Innocent Become Prey
Multatuli and Max Havelaar: ‘I Suffered a Lot’ and Injustice
A journey through the impossible
— made real against all odds.
🎥 The Post Office Scandal Explained –
In just 20 minutes, this powerful video lays bare every key aspect of the scandal with striking clarity. Even Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears, calling it
“one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history.”
Essential viewing for anyone seeking to understand the full scale and human cost of this systemic failure.
In conclusion, it was done on purpose
The absurdity of the whole situation is this: it’s like defending a case that never existed (as explained by a career investigator with over 40 years of experience in Post Office Integrity Test: Society Disruption).
‘No case’ captures the British Post Office scandal in a nutshell. Accusations were pure self-deception, magnifying the absurdity – as if their actions made the absurdity grow even larger. It is shameful and appalling for those who continued to sustain such a fraud.
The reality is that countless Absurd Situations occurred alongside the excruciating human suffering that could have been easily avoided.
📌 Voltaire’s words come to mind: “Those who can make you believe absurdities will make you commit atrocities.”
(Mentioned in The Closing Statement of Mr. Henry during the Inquiry.)📌 The greatest horrors of the world – man’s cruelty to man – are not caused by monsters, malfunctions, or misfortune, but by those who claim to act in the name of good, enforcing a perverted vision of order that leaves no room for dissent. Cruelty has a human heart.
A conclusion awaits on the page: Lessons to Learn.
And finally, a reminder of hope: “Enjoy the Glow of Life” on the webpage My Brother’s Keeper (one of the group of 24 links).
- Exploitation, Indifference, Power — and the Call for Justice: From Truth to Justice – Beat the Drum, Connect the Dots
De absurditeit van de hele situatie is als volgt: het is alsof je een zaak verdedigt terwijl er helemaal geen zaak is (zoals uitgelegd door een onderzoeksdeskundige met meer dan 40 jaar ervaring in Post Office Integrity Test: Society Disruption).
‘Geen zaak’ vat het Britse Post Office-schandaal perfect samen. De beschuldiging zelf is zelfbedrog, wat de absurditeit alleen maar vergroot. Het is beschamend en schokkend voor degenen die hieraan meewerken.
De realiteit is dat talloze Absurde Situaties plaatsvonden, samen met het ondraaglijke menselijke leed dat gemakkelijk voorkomen had kunnen worden.
📌 Voltaire’s woorden komen in gedachten: “Degenen die je absurditeiten kunnen laten geloven, kunnen je ook gruweldaden laten begaan.”
(Vermeld in De Slotverklaring van Mr. Henry tijdens het onderzoek.)📌 De grootste gruwelen ter wereld – de wreedheid van de mens jegens de mens – worden niet veroorzaakt door monsters, storingen of pech, maar door degenen die beweren te handelen in naam van het goede, terwijl ze een verdorven visie op orde afdwingen die geen ruimte laat voor tegenspraak. Wreedheid heeft een menselijk hart.
Er is een conclusiepagina: Lessons to Learn.
En tot slot: “Enjoy the Glow of Life” op de webpagina My Brother’s Keeper (een van de groep van 24 links).
- Uitbuiting, Onverschilligheid, Macht — en de Roep om Gerechtigheid: From Truth to Justice – Beat the Drum, Connect the Dots
⚙️ The Helpdesk, Technical Staff, and Systemic Wrongdoing
The Post Office Helpdesk, technical support, and investigators were often the first point of contact for Subpostmasters who noticed discrepancies.
Instead of investigating Horizon as a possible source of the errors, they assumed — or were told to assume — that the Subpostmasters were at fault.
Many of these people worked for Fujitsu, or were part of a system managed jointly by the Post Office and contractors. But regardless of who signed their paycheck, they operated within a chain of command that discouraged questioning the software.
They were often not allowed to tell the truth — and some may not have even been fully informed themselves. Others knew, but kept quiet.
The result was that technical people, helpdesk staff, and investigators became agents of harm — not out of personal malice, but because the system trained, instructed, or pressured them to protect the institution, not the truth.
🧭 Why They “Could Not Handle It Right”
They could not handle it right because:
The system was designed to assume Horizon was flawless.
Speaking up could mean losing your job, your role, or facing internal backlash.
Fujitsu employees were sometimes even used as expert witnesses in trials — without disclosing the full context or problems with the data.
Legal departments, managers, and compliance teams closed ranks to protect the institution.
Where Telling the Truth Meant Losing Your Place
So yes:
They belonged to Fujitsu, or to the Post Office, or to the government — and because of that fact, they could not handle it right.
They were part of a structure that made truth unwelcome.
The Cruel Machinery of Conformity and Cover-Up
Even in the face of truth, this system did not bend — it closed ranks.
The cruelty was not always loud or violent, but systematic, cold, and calculated.
It was powered by conformity, sustained by silence, and protected by layers of institutional self-preservation.
This was not failure — it was design.
Zelfs in het aangezicht van de waarheid boog het systeem niet — het sloot de gelederen.
De wreedheid was niet altijd luid of gewelddadig, maar systematisch, kil en berekend.
Ze werd aangedreven door conformiteit, in stand gehouden door stilte, en beschermd door lagen van institutioneel zelfbehoud.
Dit was geen mislukking — het was opzet.
Ook een komisch moment kan ons iets leren over de kracht van stilte — en het doorbreken ervan.
Even a comedic moment can teach us something about the power of silence — and what it means to break it.
When Silence Breaks
A quiet man, a loud moment — and the courage to finally speak.
Even in British culture, the polished surface is often maintained at all costs. But in real life, as this scandal shows, the damage beneath is no comedy.
Even in comedy, truth finds its moment.
In this short clip from Keeping Up Appearances, Richard — usually quiet, accommodating — finally raises his voice at Hyacinth. It’s unexpected, overdue, and strangely satisfying.
Sometimes, those long silences break. Sometimes, a voice rises — not for comedy, but for justice.
Ook in de Britse cultuur wordt de schijn vaak opgehouden. Maar zoals dit schandaal toont, is de schade eronder geen komedie.
Zelfs in een komedie vindt de waarheid haar moment.
In dit korte fragment uit Keeping Up Appearances verheft Richard — doorgaans stil en toegevend — eindelijk zijn stem tegen Hyacinth. Het is onverwacht, lang uitgesteld en verrassend bevredigend.
Soms worden lange stiltes doorbroken. Soms klinkt er een stem — niet voor de grap, maar voor gerechtigheid.
More Than a Bug: A System That Chose Denial Over Justice
Meer dan een Bug: Een Systeem dat Kiest voor Ontkenning boven Gerechtigheid
The Computer Bug that Ruined Hundreds of Lives
8 nov 2023
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How and why were over 700 postal workers in the UK prosecuted for crimes they didn’t commit?? This is a royally messed up story about how a corporation refused to own up to their mistakes and instead, threw hundreds of their own innocent employees under the bus. In this video, we take a deep dive into the legal drama that unfolded and find out whether justice was served.
What happens when a computer glitch becomes a weapon — and no one in power wants to admit the truth?
This short documentary gives an accessible overview of the Post Office scandal, where over 700 postal workers were wrongly accused of crimes they didn’t commit.
It shows how error, denial, and institutional self-protection led to one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern British history.
Wat gebeurt er als een computervirus verandert in een wapen — en niemand met macht de waarheid wil erkennen?
Deze korte documentaire geeft een toegankelijke samenvatting van het Post Office-schandaal, waarbij meer dan 700 postmedewerkers ten onrechte werden beschuldigd van misdrijven die ze niet hadden gepleegd.
Het laat zien hoe fouten, ontkenning en institutionele zelfbescherming hebben geleid tot een van de ernstigste gerechtelijke dwalingen in de moderne Britse geschiedenis.
“Wanneer instellingen rede en geweten loslaten, is het niet de gerechtigheid die blind is — maar de macht die weigert te zien.”
Niet systemen dragen de gevolgen, maar mensen:
hun leven, hun gezin, hun waardigheid.
Deze pagina laat zien hoe absurditeiten, eenmaal geaccepteerd, tot onvoorstelbare schade leiden —
niet per ongeluk, maar doelbewust.
Als dit kan gebeuren zónder misdaad, zónder bewijs en zónder berouw — dan is niemand van ons echt veilig.
“When institutions abandon reason and conscience, it is not justice that is blind — it is power that refuses to see.”
The cost is borne not by systems, but by people:
their lives, their families, their dignity.
This page has shown how absurdities, once accepted, lead to unimaginable harm —
not by accident, but by design.
If this can happen without a crime, without evidence, and without remorse — then none of us are truly safe.