VENGEANCE IS SAM ALITO'S

JUSTICE CONCEIVED by Samuel Alito in his “shoot to kill, it’s cool“ memo point out some serious, disturbing trends in America today.  We have a hard time facing whether we are for punishment of the crime, the improvement of society through the rehabilitation of the criminal, or the dark satisfaction of vengeance.  Justice is not executed by broad edict for all to see one day.  It comes in the accumulation of legal ideas piled on top of one another.  Whether Samuel Alito’s “shoot to kill” memo sits on a stinking pile or is treated as the top of the heap of helpful, worthy ideas will be debated by legal minds more wise than mine.

BUT IF SUDDEN SAMUEL ALITO IS CONFIRMED  a message will be sent that the law has little time for justice.  The key bullet point that matters will be a bullet to the head.  The execution of a suspect will somehow mean more than the faithful execution of the Constitution and its safeguards against unreasonable acts upon the person. A black boy on a fence with a purse and ten dollars shot down by a cop is only reasonable in a world where the passion for vengeance for the criminal matters more than the process that protects us all.  What sort of mind so disrespects the living yet accords the yet to be born more fealty?

ALL AROUND US is an upwelling from the dark depths of passion suggesting the law and justice take too much time.  We would streamline justice so that habeas corpus would have no merit.  Some have said the law is an ass.  The law is a matter of life and death when Supreme Court nominees are considered. If Alito is confirmed, less justice will be served and more life among the already living will be lost.

OTHER VOICES IN THE SOUND AND THE FURY The short and not so sweet from Lawyers, Guns, and Money One word, filibuster.  The Heretik agrees.  Alito's paper trail is on fire right now and he deserves to flame out.