the jurisprudence of desmond zaidan

Desmond Zaidan is a Lebanese national who has been appointed Judge within the Irish courts service.
His appointment has taken place without public consultation.
Several media outlets have been used by the courts service to propagandise in favour of his appointment.
Among the outlets used to propagandise in favour of Judge Desmond Zaidan's appointment is the Leinster Leader, a newspaper from which I was fired in 2007 for the crime of being on the payroll ten years.
The Leinster Leader in an article trumpeting Judge Desmond Zaidan's arrival in the Naas district court, described Judge Desmond Zaidan as "popular" and suggested that his admirers had established a Facebook internet website to celebrate his down to earth rulings and no nonsense style.
The Leinster Leader endeavoured to convey the utterly false notion that the website had been established by members of the public.
The Leinster Leader also falsely claimed that this connoted broad public approval of Judge Desmond Zaidan.
The Leinster Leader further falsely claimed that Judge Desmond Zaidan was a Judge Judy figure reminiscent of a tough but fair television Judge from America called Judy Sheindlin.
I maintain that the Leinster Leader reports of Judge Desmond Zaidan's appointment were discreditable and unprofessional propaganda, published at the behest of the courts service to head off public concerns about a surreptitious appointment which was already raising disquiet in many quarters.
I have asserted that the Facebook website page dedicated to Judge Desmond Zaidan was created by those responsible for his appointment as a Judge and is yet another crude propaganda attempt to manipulate public opinion.
Judge Desmond Zaidan has admitted he is "aware" of the website.
I would postulate that Judge Desmond Zaidan is aware of the website because he was a party to its creation.
The Leinster Leader attempted to back up its nonsensical claims that Judge Desmond Zaidan was popular by quoting two senior police officers from the North West of Ireland.
Even in the most rose tinted of media delusions, popularity with police officers is hardly the same thing as popularity with the general public.
I would advise the failing Leinster Leader that it won't stay in business by catering to the needs of Ireland's individually and institutionally corrupt police officers or indeed by catering to the needs of low rent Lebanese Judges.
There are a lot of corrupt cops in Ireland.
But there's just not ever going to be enough corrupt cops or incompetent Judges to generate profits for the fart filled Leinster Leader.

I mean I don't want to go casting no aspoyshuns.
Personally, I have been aware of Judge Desmond Zaidan since a corrupt police officer styling himself Sergeant James D O'Meara summonsed me to court last November for the crime of allowing my car light to fuse in a downpour.
O'Meara, an odious out of control thug in uniform, had attempted to put me in fear at the side of the road, flinging a photograph on the ground from my wallet, accusing me of stealing my own car after he had seen my documents and knew this could not be the case, compelling me to stand in the rain in a tee shirt while he shouted in my face "You should know that light is gone," and stomping away from me with a snarl of "I'm finished with you," when I attempted to question him further on the manner in which he was behaving.
O'Meara said one other interesting thing while I endeavoured to discover what the hell he was playing at.
As he was ranting at me in the rain, I managed to ask him quietly could I go to jail over this incident.
O'Meara answered with a smirk: "That depends on what attitude the Judge takes."
Obviously he was already acquainted with the court room style of Judge Desmond Zaidan and had no concerns that my rights might be upheld in that particular court room before that particular Judge.
Since then I've kept a weather eye on Judge Desmond Zaidan.
I was interested to see would any of his much vaunted Judge Judy common sense decency come to the fore.
What I found was an invidious, dishonourable, and dangerously incompetent Lebanese national posing as an Irish Judge.
I give you three examples.

1) A man was brought to court after a police officer stopped his car in Naas. The man had conducted himself respectfully towards the police officer. But at some point the situation deteriorated. The man was compelled to leave his vehicle. A struggle with the police officer ensued. After the struggle the man was hospitalised. The man stated in Judge Zaidan's court that the police officer had struck him on the back of the head with his truncheon while he lay on the ground. Judge Zaidan said to the man that he did not believe a police officer would assault him when there might be Closed Circuit Television cameras in the area. I am suggesting here that Judge Zaidan's reference to CCTV cameras was injudicious, illegal and wrong, unless Judge Zaidan actually had access to footage from such cameras. I am suggesting here that Judge Zaidan's claim that police officers won't commit assault in areas where there may be CCTV camera is also injudicious, illegal and wrong. And not a little bit delusional. But there was worse to come. Judge Zaidan remanded the man in custody to await a report on his injuries from the hospital. This meant that a man who may have just been hospitalised by a corrupt thug cop was going to sit in jail while the extent of his injuries at the hands of that corrupt cop were investigated. The man became incensed in the court room. As he was being led away, he shouted at Judge Desmond Zaidan: "Go home you foreign c-cks-ck-r. Judge Desmond Zaidan sentenced him to an extra period of detention for his outburst. Now here's the thing. I've watched Irish Judges in action for two decades. I've seen every sort of provocation towards the Judge imaginable. I've seen a defendant shout at Judge Mary Martin: "Ha, ha, you ould c---. Your father hung himself from a tree in the back garden. Ha, ha." And Judge Martin didn't turn a hair. Stared him down. And the guy apologised in nothing flat. Desmond Zaidan due to his own personal limitations is apparently incapable of exercising control in his courtroom without throwing people in jail for fripperies. I am suggesting that Judge Desmond Zaidan is bringing the uncivilised pseudo macho mores of a debilitated nay barbaric Lebanese culture to the Republic of Ireland.

2. Another recent case in a courtroom presided over by Judge Desmond Zaidan featured a man who'd been brought to court by Gardai (Irish police) for the crime of running away when a police officer called out to him in the street. This has never in a hundred years of the Irish Republic been a jailable offence. Zaidan sentenced the man to two months in detention.

3. Last week Judge Desmond Zaidan ordered the arrest of a man who kissed his girlfriend at the rear of his courtroom. The man was held in custody until the afternoon of the same day when he apologised to Judge Desmond Zaidan in open court. Judge Desmond Zaidan's behaviour in this case is uncomfortably reminiscent of the sexually immature behaviour of Judges in countries like Dubai, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan et al, (particuarly al, I hate him) where kissing in public can be deemed a criminal offence in accordance with the psychotisised repressions cusomary in Arab Islamic culture. The case says a lot more about Judge Desmond Zaidan's sexuality than it does about the probity of the man who commited the purely notional crime of kissing his girlfriend in court. The arrest of a man for such a crime has never been recorded in Ireland before. People have kissed in Ireland for thousands of years. Some of them may have even kissed in courtrooms. Even under the dark days of the penal laws, no one was ever jailed for the crime of kissing. Desmond Zaidan is single handedly bringing the law and the courts into disrepute. There was more to come. Judge Desmond Zaidan ordered the release of the man whom he had just had arrested for the crime of kissing his girlfriend. As he was led from the courtroom, another man clapped his hands. Judge Desmond Zaidan then ordered the arrest of the man who had clapped his hands. Judge Desmond Zaidan remanded the man who clapped his hands in custody for seven days. This also is believed to be the first time anyone has ever been jailed in the Republic of Ireland for the crime of clapping their hands.

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I am suggesting that Judge Desmond Zaidan is not fit to be a Judge. His jailing of a man pending a medical report on injuries the man sustained at the hands of a police officer was indeed in the best sense of an old fashioned phrase, injudicious, illegal and wrong. His jailing of a man because a Garda claimed the man ran away from him in the street was even more dubious. His ordering the arrest of a man for kissing in court was novel but perhaps the Judge is not a romantic. His jailing of another man for clapping his hands in court is quaint but let's let that one go.