Daedalus nails it. Seems Obama would remove the blindfold from lady justice and replace equality before the law with ‘justice’ meted out according to individual special pleading, class affiliation, gender/ethnic/sexual-orientation group membership, position on the grievance/victim hierarchy, etc.
And why not? Members of politically-fashionable groups are already held to different standards as it is.
Just think of how easy the Duke ‘rape’ case would have been! No time-wasting procedural tedium or consideration of the merits when worthy petitioners, defendants and litigants can be quickly identified by the Marx-O-Meter Class Virtue Detector(tm)?
This time around, who gets to decide which of us will reprise the roles Kulaks and landlord-class enemies? And will the absence of callouses on our hands count against us?
