Justice American style

Listening to the SCOTUS line of questioning yesterday, I’m led to one conclusion.

In this great country, if you want to commit crimes with impunity, all you need is a band of thugs behind you.

The threat of bedlam and repercussions is enough to cause even the highest court in the land to declare you innocent of your crime.

(We all know that good lawyers can make an innocent man guilty and a guilty man innocent.)

Back in the day, when this was truly the land of the brave, judges meted out justice without fear or favor.

The law was supreme.

From legendary western outlaws to legendary city hoodlums—all were taken down because of fearless judges.

But it seems, this is no longer the case.

Judges need to look at possible consequences of their decision.

What if they declare the man guilty, would that lead to retaliation? Or worse, more chaos in the street?

So it is true, as the great conman once declared, that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.

He knew this to be true, because he knew he could summon his band of thugs anytime and people would be looking for ‘offramps’ (aka excuses) not to charge him.

Because these days, when it comes to justice, it’s not the crime, but the threat of retaliation that matters.