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Weighing Scales Don't Lie!

Robert Clements Robert Clements
12 Aug 2024

What a terrible disappointment it is for the whole of our country. The one gold medal we hoped to win was snatched away because of 100 grams!

Even as I share the sadness of all my countrymen, still, there's a lesson we have to learn from here; a lesson I draw from the reactions of many.

Said our leader to the head of our Olympic association, to explore all options and appeal against the decision. Says another, that there seems to be some foul play, and another that we are being judged unfairly.

And in these reactions, we see how we handle truth and try to get around justice.

A few months ago, dishonest and corrupt opposition leaders who were nailed for their crimes by government authorities suddenly had cases withdrawn because they either joined the ruling party or shut their mouths.

But today, we find much to our chagrin that in the international arena, weighing scales don't lie and that after they have spoken, justice is absolute.

We were quite perturbed when international agencies showed our country sliding down the index of poverty, hunger, corruption and freedoms of speech and press.

We kept shouting that those countries were plain jealous of our economic status, till the election results showed that the poor, who form the majority in our country, were reacting strongly against their lack of jobs and lack of bare necessities.

If the government had taken note of the data presented instead of getting prickly and sensitive, they could have rectified matters.

They didn't. They blamed the weighing scales.

But weighing scales don't lie.

No, they don't, and when we are faulted for a technical lapse, we make ourselves fools when we shout about appeals or state that the agencies had a vindictive agenda.

I am as disappointed as the rest of the country over the result, but even in the biggest disappointment or failures, there are lessons we need to learn: Let us start believing in absolutes like justice, freedom, and equality. Stop using words like 'appeal' and 'adjust' and 'fixing' when weighing scales give results.

Today, justice has become such a faint hope to people in our country, that arbitrators have become more used than judges, and the first sentence mentioned during arbitration is that 'justice or the verdict is going to take twenty years, so give up something, so that both parties are happy.'

Which means compromise, though you are right.

We have got so used to doing this that bullies use this route, grabbing property and land because, ultimately, they walk away with something for nothing, though they are in the wrong legally.

Vinesh Phogat cannot join the ruling party and automatically finds her disqualification revoked, because in the international arena, weighing scales don't lie, and truth is absolute!!!
 

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