5. If you break the law

If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

I don’t know if Justice is blind. It seems to me that wealthy white folks get a much better deal than people who are poor or have some pigment. Maybe what they mean is that Justice should be blind, but I don’t know that I like that either. It seems to me the Justice needs all of her faculties if she is going to set things straight.

If this means that the legal system should be a force for making the crooked straight and the high places low, I am all for that. Some see that as judicial activism, but I see it as the creation of justice, not just the rote enforcement of laws. But maybe they do mean they want blind justice. So do they want Justice to be blind or not. Again, I’m confused.