A knowing nod from superstition - probably
So what if the term superstition might be used for those
good signs we see in life? Especially today, I feel I need to see unexpected
nods by Fate as real and really encouraging.
Take today as the perfect example.
Regular readers will know, probably to their back teeth, how
keen I am to clear my name after the truly devious trial, held in camera, that
followed my arrest in an ambush.
Old mantra
That awful, deeply disturbing scene at a friend’s home in
Hampshire proved to me, in the cruellest way, that the old mantra one learned
as a child, that English justice is the envy of the world, has to be the
grossest of exaggerations.
Bureaucrats in the former Customs Department had a clutch of
people in jail that they claimed were members of a drugs gang.
Showing a complete ignorance of the sea, the bureaucrats
decided the gang was being supplied by yachts, and yachts sailed by ‘Sunday
sailors’ who navigated from the Caribbean with cargoes street-valued in the
millions.
The prosecution showed it knew nothing of the weather and
the sort of seas that lie between the Caribbean and South Coast ports but, as
luck would have it, the jury knew even less. …Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuiring book, Sailing to Purgatory, here >>>
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