Law and Order in Flux: Crafting a New Image for Justice in America

American Greatness ^ | 18 Mar 2024 | Roger Kimball

[Rummyfan]

The rule of law is inoperative in the United States. With every passing day, it becomes more obvious that we live under a two-tier justice system. It is not justice, but a form of injustice.

Were I of a more entrepreneurial bent, I might go into the statuary business. I would specialize in those statues of “Justice” one sees, or used to see, decorating the façades of courthouses. The old-fashioned, now deprecated models featured a berobed and blindfolded female figure holding aloft a pair of scales. The symbology, now on its way to the graveyard of discarded ideas, was simple but noble. Justice was blindfolded because she was no respecter of persons. Neither rank nor party nor sex nor ethnic origin would figure into her calculation of guilt or innocence. She held scales to emphasize her devotion to impartiality.

Since those ideals have long since been superseded, my thought was to go into business producing new statues of Justice. The figure could still be female, or at least identify as female, but it should probably be obese and sport dreadlocks. She—or “she”—should not be wearing a robe but rather a T-shirt and dungarees. Instead of a blindfold, this new figure of justice would sport a pride-flag pin and a WinBlue membership card. She would still brandish scales, but one side would be loaded down with affidavits, subpoenas, and indictments.

I expect I could do a brisk business with those new, postmodern statues.

[Flavious_Maximus]

When you start electing and appointing bananas to become judges and district attorneys and mayors, you become a banana republic. /spit

[SauronOfMordor]

It’s called “anarcho tyranny”, where laws are not enforced when friends of the regime commit crimes (anarchy) but enemies of the regime are gone after relentlessly (tyranny).

Example: treatment of Antifa and BLM while they burned and looted, versus treatment of Jan 6 protesters.

[Liz]