One week from now, Troy Davis will likely be dead. Barack Obama will have raised another million or so dollars in his attempt to recapture the most powerful office on the planet. Because there is no justice. Because the law does not apply to everyone equally. Because, in fact, the very ideas of justice and punishment are themselves colonizations of our memories, scripted and refined over the last five thousand years in order to get us to police ourselves in expectation of reward. Because the law doesn’t exist, anywhere or when, without force or the threat of force. Because, most significantly, while some people perhaps ought to suffer or die for their unending forays into pillage, depredation, rape and murder, the ones doing the bulk of the suffering and dying are their victims. I don’t know exactly how that can be changed so that everyone has it easy, and the number of people who want to boss up and make others suffers reaches an all time low. But a good place to start, I imagine, is with a challenge to the indoctrinated belief in a universal and equalizing justice.
