I’m not a legal expert by any means, but there’s something that confuses the fuck out of me. If I were to break a law, say walk into a grocery store and start beating up the checkout lady, the police would be called and I would be stopped, arrested, thrown in jail, and put through some sort of legal process. But for some people in this country, the pattern is completely different. They break the law. Someone suggests calling the police and maybe they do, but there’s a lot of chatting in the lobby about whether or not to stop them, and then instead of being stopped, thrown in jail, and going through any kind of legal process, a court case may or may not be planned six months or more in the future to hold a legal conversation as to whether or not anything can happen past, present, or future, to prevent said criminal from breaking the law. I mean, the law is pretty straight forward in this case: kicking the shit out of people is illegal. For me there’s no get out of jail card. I get stopped in my tracks then the case goes to court, not the other way around. For many of the rich and powerful that’s not the case.
Why the hell’s that?
It’s made me wonder, over the past many years, why we don’t have a more robust legal system in regard to being able to immediately respond to powerful people and organizations breaking the law in the shame fashion it responds to little people like me. If we are a law and order country (as we claim) and if the law applies to us all equally (as we also claim) shouldn’t a law be implemented immediately for anyone the moment it’s broken? Why are we having conversations in the form of social media debate and sometimes legal action in order to determine if said law can indeed be applied to said very powerful person?
Call me crazy, but I’ve never had much respect for people who say, believe, or act in the vein of, “It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.”
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