Re: Popular Justice and The Rule of Law -- 1

[Scott Marshall <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:07 PM 2/23/96 -0500, Leo wrote:

>Popular justice, in which  the people' take  justice' into their
>own hands outside of the framework of the rule of law, has a
>history, and any serious discussion of the concept must make some
>serious reference to that history.

There are also plenty of examples of good popular justice, such as when
Buchenwald inmates liberated themselves and excuted many of their SS
keepers. Like any other human product of the class struggle there are good
and bad examples, but..

The implication that the rule of law resolves the bad use of justice is
absurd. More people were excuted in the US in 1995 than in the last 30 years
- 54 I believe. Not a one of those executed was a millionaire. One study
estimates that 40% of African American men between the ages of 17 and 38 has
either been in jail, on parole or some other negative contact with the
criminal justice system.

Scott



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