JUSTICE AND LIBERTY FOR ALL . . .

A federal judge in Chicago comes home from work one day to find her husband and mother shot to death execution-style in the basement of their home ... all arrows -- the only arrows right now -- point towards a controversial case that the Judge Lefkow tried, rendering rulings against white supremacist and erstwhile attorney (I get nauseous at the thought that I might have shared a vocation with this poor excuse for a man) Matthew Hale. He was ultimately sentenced to prison for plotting to murder Judge Lefkow, but authorities are wondering if he ordered her hit, in code, from behind prison walls ...

What kind of world do we live in? What kind of unfairness must we wrestle against? What sort of recompense is it for a woman who dedicated her career to public service and doing justice, only to discover that her very vocation might have caused others to turn against her and lash out at her family members -- a man on crutches and an 89-year-old woman who can't move around without a walker? What is the meaning of the law and what is the purpose of those who strive to uphold it justly and fairly, if at whim and will, people can just overturn order and authority? Where is the fairness and justice within the rampant administration of unfair and unjust actions? And, having been violated and robbed from within, how will someone like Judge Lefkow now reseat herself on the bench and continue to serve the public with a clear conscience?

By all accounts, she was an excellent and prudent judge ... to have injected fear and insecurity into her rational mind is to have done a grave injustice to all like-minded individuals who, naively or not, used to believe in the inherent good value of the ideal of justice.

I know this will never happen, but I can't wait to get to heaven, look out the porthole of my little heavenly dorm room, look down on scum who fought against justice in this life, and laugh.