What happens in courts can never be Justice, which is like Love, or Seeing, not like force, or didactery, vengeance, or punishment. I suspect that -Trayvon- would have acquitted Zimmerman, that his soul -would demand acquittal-, and that only the disease inside us demands more. Because, again, courts and prisons have -no more to to with Justice than murder has to do with kindness-, and the disease is in us, for we expect beauty or truth to come from horror, accusation, and the empermanencing of crime and identity. But this, itself is crime.
Courtrooms are criminal, prisons are crime, we are the criminals ourselves. No wonder we want Zimmerman’s head. We want him to stand in for us, because, subconsciously, we realize the truth: each day we are murdering millions of men and women and their families, at ever increasing prices. For something we call Justice, but which is actually simply lethally aggrandized stupidity masquerading as something divine. No. Justice means beauty, learning, transcendence. For so long as it shall mean punishment, the binding of our identities and lives to error, and worse — our own minds will be punishments unto us, our world, our lives, our dreams, and our hope. ZImmerman? No. YOU. You demand an indictment and sentence? Stand up. You’re the defendant, prosecutor.
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