Free Within the Walls of Hell by Taniform Martin Wanki Page B

wanted them to continue entrusting their destinies into your hands?
    Carlos : I never asked anybody to entrust his or her destiny into my hands.
    Messenger : Any aspirant to the highest office does just that. Anyway, that is not the issue now. You still have not told us what happened to Khan.
    Carlos : He violated a fundamental law by having his eyes on my birth right throne. By doing that he had to face the full weight of the law and I had to make sure that it was well applied. He was arrested and handed to the judges who found him guilty of treason which carried a death penalty. Justice was done.
    Messenger : Did I just hear you mention the word justice? When you were down there, how much did you know about justice? Did you really mean justice or injustice? You saw Khan as an enemy. You asked your men to arrest him. You called your judges and instructed them to hand down nothing less than capital punishment. They took charge of organizing and acting out a piece of drama in the name of a trial, which was even behind closed doors. Those who tried him never knew him. They neither knew the neighborhood he grew up in nor came from. Those who tried him were total strangers. Is that what you call justice? There were some actors too there and the name you called them was ‘members of the jury’. When they could not be unanimous on a decision, they opened it to a vote as if somebody’s life is something they can gamble with. Is that what you call justice? What was justice was what favored you. Once anything was not in your favor, it was injustice. The courts were never there to render justice in the real sense of the term but to help you put away those you saw as enemies. The courts existed just as a window dressing for the international community.
    Carlos: I thought there was some knowledge in that your head. How do you expect me to be the head of the Judiciary and then the courts pass a judgment which disfavors me? How did you expect the judges whom I personally appointed to disfavor me? I appointed them to serve me. I had the right to fire any of them at any time when I had the impression that they were not doing their job.
    Messenger : Let’s leave out Khan, what happened to Wang Mills?
    Carlos : That was the biggest fool who ever lived. He was an important committee member of my party and had many followers who were of his tribe. His tribes’ men numbered over a million and that was an important figure to me when it was elections time though elections were just a formality. I made him minister and he used his position to open many businesses of his own. As a good tool, I exempted him from all taxes and gave him exclusive rights to supply certain goods. His people loved me just for the simple fact that I made one of theirs minister though they were not benefiting much from him. That made Mills to think that he was indispensable and grew horns. He dared to challenge me when I asked him to resign from his post of minister so that I could bring in someone else. The intention was not to offend his tribes’ men who might have hated me for firing their son. He was too greedy and did not want to do it. I asked one of my servants to prepare a resignation letter on his behalf and he was forced to sign. The reason for his resignation was read on national television. As punishment for challenging me, I decided to have the amount of money he had to pay as taxes for the number of years he was exempted calculated. He was given a deadline to pay. He couldn’t and I decided to seize all his businesses. In one of his business premises, there was resistance. There was exchange of fire between my men and his guards which resulted in the death of three of my men. He had no right to kill and I decreed that anybody who killed had to die.
    Messenger : Did you investigate to find out if Mills was the one who killed your men?
    Carlos: It was not necessary. If his guards opened fire, he certainly gave the order. Even if he