Next Time You're In
Israel Be Sure To Pick Up a Custom-Made Suit
OK, I've calmed down
enough from my last hearing in court to be able to say this.
My file has been
stitched up. For the one count of insulting a public official of which I am
accused, the State is asking for actual jail time.
No country that has a
law that makes it illegal to criticize public workers, enabling them to hide
all manners of horrors can be called Democratic. I am appalled and I am
disgusted that such a law, taken from the Ottoman Empire, is on the books in
the State of Israel.
I did not insult a
public worker on a lark. I made a video encouraging people who had been abused
by a Social Worker to speak up after receiving two such reports personally by
the people who say it happened to them and reading yet a third account. Though
these people did not know one another at the time, their stories are remarkably
similar.
The original evidence
was "lost". They have no evidence.
All they have is my
admission that I made a video, but they do not have the *contents* of that
video. They do not know if my confession is accurate or not. There is no
corroborating evidence. There. Is. No. Corroborating. Evidence.
The State of Israel
puts great emphasis on confession. Any State in which the determining factor of
guilt is a confession will resort to torture at some point.
It is no surprise,
then, that most recently, the State has hit the bottom of the moral barrel and
has resorted to torturing minors. As is commonly known, confessions gotten out
of people being tortured, or under duress, are of questionable truth at most.
Instead of
corroborating evidence against me, my file contains quotes that were attributed
to me that there is physical proof were not said by me.
The State Attorney
who is signed on my file is one of the State Attorneys that have been mentioned
in an expose that was on television concerning questionable preparations of
very serious files.
I have sent the file
to the Body in Israel that is attempting to investigate the State Attorney's
Office. I say attempting because their efforts are being thwarted by the Head
State Attorney. The Investigating Body is headed by a very decent and honest
Judge (in retirement). They answered that they cannot investigate the file now
because it is still under consideration. However, they asked me to resubmit the
Request for Investigation at the culmination of the proceedings.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
