The battle is moving slowly, but surely to courtrooms across the land. That is where the Black Robes rule. It is supposedly where Justice is meted out. Funny. Sometimes Justice is denied; innocents lose, the guilty win. Sometimes a killer skates, sometimes an innocent dies. Justice & Judges are not infallible. They too are very, very fallible & human.
We are hurtling towards a Constitutional Crisis and the Judges will have to weigh in. Their decisions will help us discover if we live in a Democracy or a Dictatorship. How does it all work? Words written down on little pieces of paper. Laws. Legal language. Sometimes subtle, sometimes convoluted, language. How those words are interpreted in the minds of human beings is sometimes enlightening, or maddening, maybe both simultaneously. It all depends.
What do the words mean? How are they interpreted and implemented? Are they instructive? What are the arguments? Who and what is most persuasive in the courtroom? Where do the chips fall? Are we all saved, or totally fucked? Do we walk free, or are we marched off to the gallows?
Oh yeah, one other decisive question: Will the evil-doers play along with the game of Justice? Will they abide by the rulings of the Black Robes? If yes, we may make it as a Democracy. If not, Jesus, we are in fucking cluster-fuck of authoritarian trouble.
Hard to believe it comes down to the Black Robes, and what flows from their decisions, but, sometimes, yes, it's true, it really does make the difference... yikes...
