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Oh...we can spend hours getting into specificsˇof this or that case....I remember just a few weeks ago when justice was served in New York....a young college student was picked up and jailed with an impossible bond for a series of rapes. He'd been picked out of a police line-up by a half dozen witnesses. Then the police nabbed the real guy and The New York Times ran pictures of both on page one to show how much they look alike. We got a tearful story of justice being served by good police work....and how wrong the cops had been in making a quick bust in the first place without too much of an investigation. It was an accident even when the real perp was nabbed....but, so be it, justice had been served. Periodically, we hear of some guy who has served a full sentence, usually a very long stretch in the state pen, and then is found to be innocent. Once in a long while the offending public body that has cost this guy his prime of life will make some cash settlement for all the years he's spent behind bars and away from his fellowman. Justice is being served, we're informed....then we forget the story. Justice can be served in many ways. Some people tell you Hitler got what was coming to him in that Berlin bunker when he took his own life....his life for six million Jews. Justice? Then I hear that justice was served when Jack Ruby pumped a hole in the gut of Lee Harvey Oswald with the TV cameras grinding. I have thoughts about that form of justice. Maybe....just maybe that is why I'm Page 3 |