'Will no one rid me of this turbulent Deemster'

I can’t shake of the fact that Richard Butt thinks David Doyles witterings warrant a story (see earlier blog on ‘The Deemster’) still that’s the the price we pay for a ‘free press’ and anyway Doyle is still robed as First Deemster - Jane is still well down the ladder!

I’m in to one of those Thomas Beckett modes - a la - ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest (or in this case Deemster)’ moods when the Argentinian actor Ricardo Darin comes to my aid - I’m watching ‘Tesis sobre un homicidio’ (Thesis on a homicide) don’t ask where I find these films.

Darin is as incisive and inscrutable as ever I decide to forget Deemsters and their self importance - but then Darin brings me crashing down to earth! The film script is illuminating:

“A judge doesn't deliver justice, he enforces the law.

The biggest scam in modern societies is making us believe
that what's legal is fair.

The problem is that the laws and the concept of justice
are established by a group of people who are only interested
in holding their power.”

Suddenly I’m thinking of Howard, David and the Chamber again.

Thank you Ricardo!

Image: Ricardo Darin

Bernard Moffatt