How Do You Prove Your Innocence?
How difficult would it be for you to prove your innocence, particularly if you were in a foreign country and the FBI said it was after you? For this 72 year old Englishman, on a wine-tasting vacation in South Africa, it was pretty tough--he spent 20 days behind bars in Durban, due to the FBI's mistake.
The FBI's conduct in the case sounds pretty bad to us- they never even went to interview the Englishman they had caused to be imprisoned."My criticism of the FBI is extreme," said Bond during a news conference after his release. "America is meant to be a humane country, but under no circumstances did they behave in a humane way."So, if you think people who are arrested must have done something wrong or else they'd be able to explain things and go home, this is a powerful lesson it doesn't always work that way. We can only imagine the horror of spending 20 days in a South African jail at the age of 72--because no one would listen to us when we protested our innocence.
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