The law, traffic fines, and JUSTICE ( correction )

A PROJO editorial today comments that a recently departed

Supreme Court Justice - now meeting THE JUDGE who - we hope -

rarely hands out maximum sentences - knew the the difference

between law and justice.

A common example of routine INJUSTICE - if not filthy

corruption - is our Rhode Island Traffic Court.

In an Aug.12 , 2001 column, Bob Kerr writes : " In the

agonizing history of Rhode Island's attempt to purge itself

of its corrupt miseries, the traffic court stands out as an

arrogant, money -sucking swamp. " Kerr's column was his reaction

to this PROJO headline: " $ 31 million in traffic fines still

a mystery ".

And for many readers of the Providence Journal, where

all that money went is STILL a mystery in August of 2002 !

On June 10, 2001 we read in the paper about District

Court Judge Albert E. DeRobbio - being officially praised for

collecting $7 million in unpaid traffic fines.

To be sure UNPAID traffic fines cannot find

their way into any official's private PIG BANK.

Now I read about a need to INCREASE traffic fines

again. Here again we must consider a basic difference between

the law and JUSTICE :

A speeding ticket, for example, might just prick

an affluent middle class citizen. But it might RUIN a blue

collar guy.

Being blind to a man's economic CLASS can - in our

courts - guarantee not justice but blatant injustice.

And in general the ideological premise of the LAW-

that it operates above social class - is a LIE equal to

the Pope's delusion that he is infallible in matters of

the Catholic faith.

Our own venerable institutions are presently as

ready to implode as the 2000 year old Catholic Church- now

polluted with sexual perverts and faithless careerists.

A Supreme Court justice -with his robed grandeur-

reminds me of a prince of the Church - or the proverbial

emperor with no clothes.

History teaches us that sooner or later every institutionalized


LIE collapses with a stench. All the YOUR HONORs in the country

need to be reminded of the fate of the Spanish Inquisition.

When enough of the little people learn the truth about

the high and mighty - there will be Hell to pay !