No one can deny the tragedy of the recent terrorist attack in Norway, but Mr. Rosenbaum co-opts the pain of a nation, as well as the pain of survivors of violent crime, to make an emotional argument for vengeance as a legitimate and moral driver for our justice system.
And, of course, most owner-drivers saw no justice in agreeing to strike against themselves.
A Supreme Court justice, his driver and bodyguard were killed here this morning when a car bomb exploded as the judge's automobile drove along a residential street in the rush hour.
"School discipline issues are still an important driver," Ana Zamora, criminal justice policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, tells me.
The lawyers have cited the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which mandates that laws be applied equally to everyone, to argue that the State Police policy prevents drivers from receiving equal justice.
MS. DRIVER: I think that... JUSTICE SCALIA: Do you have any case of ours that propounds that view of the 14th Amendment, that it protects only minorities?
We call it the hidden addiction because it's often a hidden driver of healthcare and criminal justice costs".
Sharpton, who says that he and his cohorts "aren't ambulance chasers; we're the ambulance itself" — a vehicle called upon to deliver community justice — directed his driver to make a detour across the Triboro Bridge, heading toward Jamaica.
Insofar as there is a role for better information to play, it likely relates not to inequality but tosocial mobility which remains widely misperceived and is a potent driver of feelings about the justice of economic policy.
But it's O.K., the show still has some redeeming social value; he practices vigilante law enforcement, targeting murderous pedophiles and drunken drivers who would otherwise escape justice.
