Unequal justice / by kevin murray

Look, it has to be said, with all the laws that the United States has, and the unequal interpretation and especially unequal application of those same laws, that the end result is that we have laws that are unfairly applied, in which the very people that can least afford to handle the impact of these laws, which are the disenfranchised and unprotected, thus feel the greatest weight and unfairness of those same laws.

 

For an absolute certainty, whenever somebody is in trouble with the law, they usually desperately want to get out of the effect of that law, because few people desire to sacrifice their freedom for imprisonment.  That is why, then, when it comes to the law, we find that those who are the richest and the most powerful who also make it a habit not to make a spectacle of themselves, can draw upon their connections, their money, and their status not to suffer therefore from the law unduly, for any time that somebody gets into what would appear to be trouble, but end up just essentially being inconvenienced, they are not suffering under the law, while such though swallows up whole, those that are the un-championed.

 

Indeed, there often isn’t a strong desire from those who are our lawmakers to make fundamental or wholesale changes to our laws upon laws, because these lawmakers know that the most important people and personages aren’t worried about having too many laws, for they have not only their avenues to successfully escape the harshness of such, but also because they know that the law as written is often not going to be applied to those that are the most powerful and influential amongst them.  Rather, the laws so stand as they are, as a way and means, to keep those who have nothing or little in their place and therefore for those who are in positions of authority to assert therefore that authority against those that they do not value.

 

Indeed, the United States has a great written Constitution and has some of the most well-reasoned judicial decisions that have ever been written, but the enforcement of those decisions, and the enforcement of justice equally applied to all, without respect for that person, is something that the United States deeply fails at -- because American justice either doesn’t take the time to actually analyze what is going on in reality with all the people, or doesn’t really care to discover such, because they, the lawmakers, do not live at that level, and therefore aren’t especially concerned about it.

 

All those who wonder why there are so many lawbreakers in America are asking the wrong question, for the question that needs to be asked is why is it, that the vast majority of those who do major time behind bars, all seem to be similar, in the sense of their ill-education, their poverty, and the hopelessness displayed by their actions.  That is indeed the question of the hour, and the answer to that question is that those that the American justice system does not wish to see in public must be locked away as if they don’t exist, even though they not only exist, but will continue to exist and persist until this country takes the necessary means to provide all those that are Americans with hope, opportunity, and impartial justice