Reply #22: It is. [View All]

[H2O Man]

I think it is a good Easter story. And it is important not just because the stone was rolled back, releasing Rubin ... but because when the prosecutor's office was making it's appeal to "group guilt," in terms of the violence between different groups in the world, the judge said, "We can't have that situation in America. Today it's these defendants, tomorrow it'll be those with blond hair." It almost seems now, looking back, that the judge was anticipating one of the negative potentials of our justice system, because we are at a time when groups are targeted. Last week, my son was driving with two friends to college. They were pulled over for no good reason. But because there was a white kid with long hair and a beard, a brown kid, and a black kid, reinforcements were called in. The three were lined up at the side of the highway, and police dogs and officers searched them and the car. These kids had broken no law. But for about two hours, they experienced those things the federal judge had say we can't have in America.