PREFACE

...There is no doubt that behind all the utterances of this court, and therefore behind my arrest and today's examination, there stands a great organisation. An organisation which not only employs corrupt warders and fatuous supervisors and examining magistrates, of whom the best that can be said is that they are humble officials, but also supports a judiciary of the highest rank with its inevitable vast retinue of servants, secretaries, police officers and other assistants, perhaps even executioners - I don't shrink from the word. And the purpose of this great organisation, gentlemen? To arrest innocent persons and start proceedings against them which are pointless and mostly, as in my case, inconclusive. When the whole organisation is as pointless as this, how can gross corruption amongst officials be avoided? That's impossible, not even the highest judge could manage that ...
'The Trial' by Franz Kafka 1925 (Reference - 1)