I read this differently ...

From the Washington Monthly:

Too Weird for The Wire

How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.

By Kevin Carey

The tactics used by the defendants in the case may have no legal standing and their behaviour may be a joke to the well ordered establishment lawyers and judges, but these individuals know, have probably known most of their lives, that they have no real place in this well ordered world other than as targets of those same well ordered authorities. Individuals react differently to such a state of affairs. Some find a way out and are able to join the 'establishment' in some degree or another. Some hunker down to lives of desperation. Others act out and take what they can. Don't misunderstand me. If they committed these crimes --and I will assume that the prosecutors are acting in good faith and with real evidence even though they are also obviously very heavy handed in their use of prosecutorial power in charging some with crimes committed while they were in jail-- they must be prosecuted.

But once these individuals realize their crime spree is over and they are destined to be imprisoned for the rest of their lives (or executed) why should they fall in line for a well ordered trial like good little boys? What good would turning into model defendants at this point serve them. As it is, it seems that acting up as they did has spared them the death penalty (if I understand the article).

Society must protect itself from killers like these (again, I'm assuming the prosecutors are on the up and up, not necessarily a good assumption).

Justice, however, won't begin until all serious crimes are investigated. As long as certain politicians and public officials are immune from prosecution because of their political affiliations and others are specifically selected for prosecution because of their political affiliations justice in the country will be a corrupt endeavor.

Additionally justice cannot begin until all parents can expect that all their children will have 'equal' education and career opportunities.

Since we are racing in the opposite direction both in equal opportunity and equal justice, don't expect much justice in this country. Increasing draconian control is what to expect.