The Star Chamber

A few weeks ago, a man of middle Eastern origin shot his three sisters dead with a revolver. An open and shut case, he was found, the murder weapon was his, the three women had planned to to nasty things (like divorce and stuff like that, it carries the death penalty east of the Suez canal).

But the Board of Health thinks otherwise. The culprit has seen a psychiatrist some time before the murder, had refused to be admitted to the hospital and wasn't mad enough to be committed.

So now the Board of Health asked the Hospital for an account of its treatment of the killer-to-be. So they did, stating that "the man had received adequate treatment, and no errors had been done".

Brilliant! I sometimes use words like that myself when adressing the Gestapo Board of Health. But in this case, the local Heinrich Himmler Lavrentij Beria wasn't satisfied, so he asked for a second report.

Which he got, and over whose content he now is pondering, from time to time leaking farts into the press such as "Board of Health investigating X Hospital" (which is a blatant lie of course, he isn't investigating anything, he's reading reports).

I'll keep you posted. These last months more and more killers of foreign extraction see a shrink thhree weeks before the act, thus developing some sort of phony alibi. And the B of H is ready as always to pervert the cause of justice.