Why This Website Exists

Is het glas half vol of half leeg? Niet slechts een vraag van perspectief, maar een reflectie op hoe kwetsbaar gerechtigheid en menselijke waardigheid kunnen worden wanneer instituties falen.

Is the glass half full or half empty? Not merely a question of perspective, but a reflection on how fragile justice and human dignity can become when institutions fail.

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A website reflecting on justice, human dignity, and the fragility of systems when institutions fail.

1 Judicial Violence – Juridisch Geweld

Rechtssystemen zijn opgericht op de belofte van rechtvaardigheid, maar als ze falen, kan dat een diepgaande en onomkeerbare impact hebben op de levens van mensen.

Judicial systems are built on the promise of fairness, yet when they fail, the impact on individuals can be profound and irreversible.

Juridisch geweld: wanneer justitie wordt ingezet als instrument dat, bewust of onbewust, gecamoufleerd en langdurig menselijk leed veroorzaakt bij mensen die daar ogenschijnlijk geen aanleiding toe geven. Er lijkt niets aan de hand, en toch kan het systeem een misleidend en moeilijk voorstelbaar beeld van de werkelijkheid creëren, alsof men in een verborgen-camera-situatie terechtkomt waarin de feiten anders lijken te zijn dan ze in werkelijkheid zijn. Sprekende voorbeelden hiervan zijn het Britse Post Office-schandaal, de kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire in Nederland en een eindeloze reeks erkende onterechte veroordelingen in individuele zaken.

Legal violence: when justice is used as an instrument that, whether consciously or unconsciously, causes concealed and prolonged human suffering for people who appear to have given no reason for it. Nothing seems to be wrong, and yet the system can create a misleading and hard-to-imagine picture of reality, as if one has ended up in a hidden-camera situation in which the facts appear different from how they actually are. Clear examples of this are the UK Post Office scandal, the childcare benefits scandal in the Netherlands, and an endless series of acknowledged wrongful convictions in individual cases.

(Maybe cfr. the metaphor David and Goliath?)

2 The Distance Between Ethics and Reality: When Authority Replaces Conscience

The Post Office Scandal: How Executives Recalibrated Their Moral Compass — and Got Caught

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Dr Paul Duckett

 

19 jan 2026

00:00 – Start
04:29 – Can we look our moral compass?
08:12 – Moral Compass – How do we recalibrate it?
14:52 – Institutional Memories
23:31 – Conclusion

I am recognised in the UK as a critical psychologist but in Australia I am not recognised as a psychologist because I have chosen not to register as on with the regulating body.

The contract they hoped would stay buried has finally surfaced — and it blows the Post Office scandal wide open.
In this video, I explore the Post Office scandal through two ideas: moral compass recalibration and institutional memory. Using the newly revealed contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu, I unpack how executives defended Horizon while ignoring ethics, how social and organisational pressures distort moral judgement, and why incriminating documents — and the truth — always resurface. From shredded minutes to the apparent executive’s inability to recall, this scandal shows how when those in positions of authority fail to recall if they did anything wrong, institutional memory steps in and fills the gap. If you’re following the inquiry, interested in organisational ethics, or want to understand why accountability eventually catches up, this video breaks it all down for you.

At minute 12:45: Profesional Ethics

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3 When Institutions Lose Their Moral Compass

Een kerngedachte van de website is, er kan een situatie gecreëerd worden die niet kan ontstaan, de ongerijmdheid schuldig zijn aan iets die je niet hebt gedaan.

Bij de 19-jarige criminologiestudent Liam Allan was het bewijs aanwezig, maar het rechtssysteem faalde bijna door het niet te verstrekken aan de verdediging.

A core idea of this website is the absurdity of being judged guilty for something you did not do. In the case of 19-year-old criminology student Liam Allan, the evidence of his innocence existed—but the justice system almost failed because it was never disclosed.

4 The Limit of Every Explanation – The One Question That Remains
5 Truth Begins with Honesty

The real question is

whether the unusual patterns are the result of

incompetence or malicious intent.

How does justice end up falling into a trap?

The question is not about finding out that there is clearly no basis for any charge whatsoever

6 From Ordinary Life to Irreversible Change

Henry’s Last Words “I’ve Been Stabbed… I Can’t Breathe” 😔 | In Memory of Henry Nowak

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*Lyrics:*

Young lad from Britain, bright future in his eyes
Walking through the city under ordinary skies
One knife, one moment, everything went black
He looked at the copper and said “I’ve been stabbed”

“I’ve been stabbed… I can’t breathe” — the words he kept repeating
While they stood there doubting, his life was slowly leaving

Henry, oh Henry, your last words still ring
“I’ve been stabbed” and they didn’t believe a thing
While the world burned for others on the evening news
Your blood dried quietly, no one knelt for you

They threw bins and the riot cops came down
But when it’s our kids bleeding, suddenly silence all around
While the politicians hide and the media decide

Z polskiej krwi pochodził, imię nosił z dumą
Syn imigrantów, co marzył o lepszym życiu tu
Teraz leży w ziemi, w obcym kraju zdradzonym
Henry, bracie nasz, nie zapomnimy o Tobie

Henry, oh Henry, your last words still ring
“I’ve been stabbed” and they didn’t believe a thing
Bridge
One more innocent gone, another family torn apart
Stabbed in the heart of a country that once had British heart

Henry, mój bracie, Twoje słowa wciąż brzmią
We’ll carry your name through the silence and the storm
For every forgotten son who bled on British ground
We rise up for justice, we won’t back down
This is our country, these are our children, our fight
Henry Nowak — pamiętamy Cię dziś

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7 The Human Cost of Political Decisions

How politics becomes a matter of life and death for the working class | Édouard Louis | Buitenhof

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Buitenhof

 
 
Édouard Louis talks about the gap between the policymakers, politicians and the people who are effected the most: the working class and the poor.
📌 Achter beleid schuilen menselijke levens.
📌 Wat voor sommigen beleid is, is voor anderen dagelijkse werkelijkheid.

👉 Behind every policy lie human lives.

👉 What is policy to some is everyday reality for others.

8 The Role You Play Versus Your True Self
9 When Childhood Is Replaced by Forced Labour

KAVI – Oscar-Nominated Short Film (FULL FILM) | 100+ Festivals & 50+ Awards | India/Hindi

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 KAVI is a young boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he’s forced to make bricks as a modern-day slave. NOTE: Play at full volume or use headphones

Gregg heeft de film jarenlang vertoond, samenwerkend met organisaties tegen slavernij en sprekend over moderne slavernij. De film is vertoond op scholen, in kerken, synagogen, bij wetshandhavingsinstanties, overheden en andere organisaties als een educatieve, inspirerende en motiverende film om kijkers (van kinderen tot volwassenen) te helpen het sociale rechtvaardigheidsprobleem van kindslavernij en slavernij door schuldslavernij te begrijpen en zich erin in te leven.

Gregg spent several years screening the film, partnering with anti-slavery organizations and speaking about modern-day slavery. The film has been screened for schools, churches, synagogues, law enforcement, governments and other organizations as an educational, inspirational and motivational movie to help viewers (ranging from children to adults) understand and empathize with the social justice issue of child slavery/bonded-labor slavery.

10 Robodebt: When a System Turns Against People

Robodebt Explained: Australia’s Post Office–Style IT Scandal (Old Version)

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8 mei 2026
00:00 – Start
02:25 – What was Robodebt?
08:28 – The Human Costs
12:39 – Wilfully wicked
23:41 – Conclusion
Robodebt Explained: Australia’s Post Office–Style IT Scandal
(Note: This video is an old version. I have recorded a new version that corrects a mistake. In this version I say that income taxes increased under neoliberalism—that was a misspeak. What I meant to say is that the tax burden on lower-income groups has increased under neoliberalism, largely through shifts in how taxation is structured.)
Was Australia’s Robodebt scheme our own version of the UK Post Office Horizon scandal? In this video, I examine how an automated government system used flawed mathematics, ignored the law, and caused devastating harm to more than half a million welfare recipients — many of whom were pushed into financial ruin, psychological distress, and despair.
Robodebt was introduced in 2015 under then–Social Services Minister Scott Morrison as part of a “tough welfare cop” agenda. At its core was income averaging: a process that unlawfully calculated welfare debts by spreading annual income across every fortnight, regardless of what people actually earned week to week. The result was tens of thousands of false and illegal debts issued against some of Australia’s most economically vulnerable citizens.
Drawing parallels with the UK Post Office Horizon IT scandal, this video explores how:
• Automated systems were treated as infallible despite mounting evidence of errors
• The burden of proof was reversed, forcing individuals to “prove” their innocence
• Governments and senior officials denied responsibility while harm accumulated below
• Structural inequality and stigma made welfare recipients politically expendable
I also examine why Robodebt was able to persist for so long — not due to a technical mistake, but because legal advice was sidelined, dissent was suppressed, and cruelty toward welfare recipients was seen as politically acceptable.
The video concludes by introducing the concept of the “moral crumple zone” — a term coined by Madeleine Clare Elish — to explain how humans at the edges of complex automated systems absorb blame and punishment when those systems fail, protecting institutions and technology at the expense of real people.
This is not just a story about Robodebt or the Post Office. It’s about what happens when power, automation, and stigma combine — and why more of us risk being pushed into moral crumple zones as automated decision making expands across government, work, and education.

📄 Academic reference
The paper I referred to on the concept of the moral crumple zone is by Madeleine Clare Elish, published in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society:
👉 Elish, M. C. (2019). Moral crumple zones: Cautionary tales in human–robot interaction.
https://estsjournal.org/index.php/est…

11 Remembering Henry Nowak

Tribute song to Henry Nowak 💙

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12 The Human Cost of Miscarried Justice

Ils ont vécu l’enfer pendant leur enfance, l’affaire Outreau | Crime France

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100% Docs - Crime

 
 
En février 2001, trois enfants qui ont été placés dans une famille d’accueil disent avoir été victimes d’abus sexuels répétés de la part de leurs parents. Des sévices auxquels auraient également participé des voisins. Débute alors la tragique affaire d’Outreau, qui a mis en lumière de graves dysfonctionnements de l’institution judiciaire.
13 The Lighter Side of Human Nature: A Touch of Humility Judicial Violence

Hyacinth’s Royal Debut Was a Real Knockout | Keeping Up Appearances

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Suggestive
adjective

Often used to describe something that makes people think about sex:
Some of his lyrics are rather suggestive.

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