India Post News Service

LOS ANGELES: A fair trial is a wonderful context but more of a satire in Anand Jon's case, based on how this has been manipulated and has been anything but fair. A just trial seems practically impossible when multi-jurisdictions of prosecutors lead by an obsessive CA prosecutor "gang-up" and first raise incredible demands for bail and when that is shot down by the judge - they change the court and thus the judge and then create a legal gridlock with "no bail at all". What happens when an Indian-American is accused by white women of assault?

The India community is about to find out when Anand Jon goes on trial September 3rd. The nagging question is will the truth come out and will justice be served?The day is finally here. The day that determines if there is justice in California state courts. The depiction of Justice standing blind holding scales always seemed strange to me. Shouldn't Justice be wide-awake on Red Bull paying attention to every detail that could potentially send a man to prison unjustifiably?

The Indian community needs to pay close attention to this trial. Any one of our kids could be threatened the same way. They could be challenged by the bureaucratic dogma that occurs when one of our kids is targeted by, well, anyone. Targeted by their peers, their enemies, their superiors, their underlings, etc. No matter what position any of us (or our children) are in they can be targeted. According to a LA Magazine, the investigative journalist Sharon Waxman had the opportunity to comb through the LA grand jury transcripts.

What I took away from the article is that many of the complaining witness' stories on face value were too incredible to be truthful. Many were implausible. Many were improbable. Some defied the laws of physics and time travel causing Mr. Jon to be in multiple places at one time. This article, for me, lends credibility to what I've been professing all along as I sit in the courtroom. I've tried to speak with the prosecutor to no avail.

The family has requested an audience with Steve Cooley, the District Attorney - it has been denied. Isn't that part of the responsibilities of an elected official? To meet with the people that he oversees. We are all part of his constituency, no? Isn't this trial important enough?What did we learn from court proceedings as well as the grand jury? There were no 911 calls. Nobody screaming for help. No one ran the three blocks to the Police Department.

There was only one "rape kit" that was administered, and it came back negative for signs of trauma. It was admitted in the grand jury that the girl that triggered the whole thing was coerced to complain by two other girls. The Indian community should pay attention to the racist blogging that goes on after these articles.

There are clearly many bad people out there that don't understand our culture. They now make fun of Anand because he lived with his mother and sister. They don't realize that that is tradition in our culture. Some people are making fun of the "curry smells" that came from the cooking. How contradictory that the same people that were graciously taken in by the family and fed by them are now the ones persecuting them? These people are stabbing them in the back in front of their faces. This is persecution in the press and in the anonymous world that is the Internet. The family has received threats. They were posted on one of the support sites.

They come from this girl Jessie that was invited on an all expenses paid charity tour to India with Miss Universe raising awareness for AIDS in India. She incited another "friend" named Mitchell to threaten that "Sanjana Jon needed her spine broken in 14 different places."

This is the world we now live in. It is up to all of us to make our immediate world a better, more tolerant and unprejudiced place. That starts within our own community. We must stand vigilant and strong against this abomination of hatred.