Justice and The American Reality

After reading today about several cases of jurisprudence, one case sprang out at me as particularly poignant, and thus today's post. Some of you, if not all of you, are familiar with Dominique Strauss Kahn, paragon of Socialist Party politics in France and former head of the IMF.

Todays latest revelation has linked DSK with a prostitution ring in France. Coupled with his predilection for hotel maids, I'm left only to wonder how the Socialists can embrace someone so clearly living a life at odds with their avowed doctrine? I digress.

Now onto Justice in America as it pertains to DSK. As we saw after his "perp walk" of shame; a beautifully crafted and choreographed public assault was unleashed to discredit the African maid, while attempting to cast DSK as victim. To a large extent this was successful, insofar as he did escape prosecution on rape charges. But how was he able to escape those charges? If any of you have sat in a court of law you would have immediately recognized the difference in representation given to those with deep pockets and those without.

For me it conjures the image of Lady Justice or whatever her actual title is; we all know the statue: A tall regal woman, barefoot, clothed in flowing robes with scales in the one hand and what I think are scrolls in the other, blindfolded. Much attention is paid to the blindfold. But how often do you think of the scales? In my own personal case, those scales represent one thing: we are entitled to the justice we can personally finance. Nothing more. Please picture for yourself the image I have: The pans of the scale are always in balance correct? Only on the statue. Now imagine if you will that the first pan of the scale represents the "charge against you", the second pan is the "Justice you can Afford". DSK and the privileged like him can always overwhelm with gold the second pan, while concurrently subtracting the weight of the charges in the first pan, with disinformation, deceit, and impunity. Where is the balance?