We agree on prisons -- but I think what people are calling for is some kind
> of just accounting for the mindless murder of Trayvon.
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I'm actually not all the way over there with you. For lack of a better option, I don't oppose the imprisonment of people who pose direct, ongoing physical threats to others. I'm sort of cautiously in the "arrest Zimmerman" mob because he might be one of those - but moving forward, I'm open to being proven wrong on that count.
Now as far as a "just accounting" goes, I don't know what the bourgeois courts could have to do with it. They exist for one purpose: to secure capitalist rule. They may, and often do, provide side benefits in terms of public safety (almost by accident, I think). For moral clarity, though, I think we'd all be advised to look elsewhere.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."