Jan 13
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Selective Justice: Rod Taylor
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:11
Evil is flourishing in our land today. The arbiters of justice seem powerless to contain it. At times they seem accomplices.
There are many factors contributing to the release of evil in our society. Broken homes, discarded faith, technology that gives to individuals unprecedented private access to pornography and sometimes tools of destruction, a torrent of violent imagery and unhinged philosophy. A central factor though is that those who have both the power and the authority to restrain evil sometimes refuse to do so, or their response is so tardy or on such careless terms that justice is neither, swift, measured nor predictable.
All branches of the “justice system” are involved: courts, police, politicians.
A few examples:
A woman kills her baby, clearly infanticide. The empathetic judge opines that—since it would have been legal (or at least not illegal—to have killed the child before it was born, why should a woman be punished for killing it after it was born?
An abused wife attempts to hire a hit man to kill her estranged husband, clearly counselling to commit murder. The Supreme Court does not uphold her acquittal but orders the crown to drop charges, amounting to the same thing.
Idle No More protesters illegally block rail lines and public highways. Even after a judge issues an injunction, police refuse to enforce it “speedily”.
The PM and Justice Minister are made aware that 491 babies have been deliberately “left to die” in Canadian hospitals because they are abortion survivors, not babies delivered intentionally alive. So far, no response and no attempt to investigate or prosecute.
Meanwhile, the “justice system” pulls out the stops to arrest, detain and convict Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner, two women who are now behind bars for entering into the “temporary” injunction “bubble zones” surrounding some abortion facilities in Canada. Linda Gibbons, a grandmother who has never used violence but has always exhibited a loving, peaceful demeanour, has spent nearly 10 years in jail for attempting to inform women and save the lives of babies.
The picture of the scales of justice we all cherish is one completely given to the rule of law, without pariality. In a nation governed by the rule of law, all citizens are treated equally and laws are applied and enforced with dispassionate coherence. While there is always room for mercy in any judgment, the core principle is that our nation is governed by laws which must be enforced if our citizens are to have any respect for the institution of law.
The influencing of public officials, whether policemen, politicians or judges by bribes or threats is something we identify with foreign tin-pot dictatorships, yet the threat of “further action” or possible violence has handcuffed the police and gives tacit approval to lawbreakers. To allow our judges and policemen to yield to public opinion, political correctness or personal bias is a step down the road to anarchy, lawlessness and ultimately mob rule. When the mob has gone too far, dictatorship is at the door.