It was about a just legal system. It should concern everyone with more than two brain cells AND you that more often the system is not about justice, but about who scores the most wins.

Sheriffs, prosecutors, judges and the legal system should be about finding the truth as to doing justice and about not going beyond the legal limits by attempting to lynch people for crimes that have not yet been proven; and, especially not for crimes that don’t exist (such as Sheriff Anderson’s invented “formal complaint”).

When the majority decides it’s time to hang the bastard, that’s the time for someone to stand up and say, “Do not follow the majority to do evil.” (Exodus 23:2.) When the prosecutors and police say, “You know he’s an SOB. We can’t prove it, but we’ll nail him on this other charge,” that’s the time to say, “Do not pervert justice.” (Leviticus 19:15; Deuteronomy 16:19.)

“A trial shall be an adversary proceeding where a verdict is handed down, acquitting the innocent and convicting the guilty. If the guilty man has incurred the penalty…do not go beyond the limit [of the penalty].” (Deuteronomy 25:1-3.)

I guess, though, when you’ve less than two brain cells, it’s hard to track this discussion.

[All quotations are from Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, The Living Torah: The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot, a new translation based on traditional Jewish sources, with notes, introduction, maps, tables, charts, bibliography and index (1981) Maznaim Publishing Corporation, Brooklyn, New York.]