#7 [vigilante rant]
Sometimes civilization's legal mechanisms, as we know them, just make no sense. Holding a trial for Saddam is proof. I fully understand the reasons and arguments for applying the same methodology in all cases - equality under the Law.
I also understand that it falls on its face more often than we'd like to admit, for a myriad number of reasons. Each occurrence where the system fails, and everyone knows it failed, erodes our confidence in justice just a smidgen. Our respect, our trust, our sense of that promised equality dies a tiny death with every judicial failure - whether technical or otherwise. At some point, even the most charitable and forgiving among us, I'm referring to sane people here, feels at least a twinge of sympathetic pain when "the system" is derailed. Cynicism fills each of these little chinks and cracks in the armor of civilization generated by these failures.
We laugh at it, as the pic with this article demonstrates, because we've become cynical in varying degrees. Too many failures, aided and abetted by the likes of the ACLU, secured through clever antics and courtroom shenanigans by Big Money Star Lawyers, or tiny technical mistakes by overworked and understaffed Police Depts leaves us boggled and suspicious and resentful and angry and, yes, cynical. Our expectations are constantly being lowered. Our outrage - at everything from simple lies to exaggerated advertising claims to getting screwed in a business deal to having a retiree lose everything to a swindler to seeing a pedo walk free to knowing the murderer should die, not get 3 squares a day, a custom diet, big-screen cable-TV, a weight room, law library, and A/C - instead of the noose or a needle - finds no outlet, eating us up from the inside out. Many of us have lost faith in the system. Some have replaced that need to believe, for it is a near-universal human hunger to belong to something greater and better and worthy of our aspirations, with foolish causes, absurd belief systems and ideologies, and mental disorders characterized by obsessive dementia.
These failures are far more powerful negatives than when the system delivers what we deem as justice are positives. One attaboy does not equal one hundred awdumbshits, as we've been told by the wags -- precisely the opposite is the truth of it. As with an unfaithful spouse, nothing actually ever restores the faith. Once burned, the fear of pain is greater than the anticipation of pleasure. Replay your memory tapes - the proof is there.
Justice has devolved into wanking for wanking's sake.
Examples abound... I could probably offend almost everyone, equally - lol, by listing a few hundred people who are breathing my air, but shouldn't be. So sayeth the Alley Oop of RB. Knuckle-dragger, mouth-breather, thug, killer, and rescuer of lost kittens stuck in trees.
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Shoot the prick. One .22LR behind the ear and let it rattle around in there a bit. Be done with it. |