Real Mercy

Adam Smith, economist, and political theorist, once said, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” This is precisely what is happening in our justice system in major cities across this nation.

There has been a rash of District Attorneys elected whose main thrust has been to rectify social justice rather than to provide justice for all. George Soros financed most of these elections. They have proceeded to prosecute cases based on liberal bias rather than the guilt or innocence of those charged.

To make up for past racial and social injustices, they have endeavored to put a system of justice that favors the criminal and ignores the victim. There has been injustice in the past, granted, but you never make things right by across the board giving mercy to the guilty and ignoring the innocent.

A case in point is case-less bail — we have incentivized crime to make the justice system more equitable to the poor. We have made the victims feel like there is no justice for them. When criminals are arrested and released repeatedly, they soon learn there is no accountability for their actions. Irrespective of the motives of these District Attorneys, trying to do the right thing the wrong way does not work.

Justice comes when all people, regardless of race or economic status, are treated

equally. Atonement never happens for the ills of the past by instituting injustice now.

KEN BARNES Mechanicsville, VA