Repeat after me: Why aren't you sending the Trayvon Martin case

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21. 2 out of 3

Prosecutors are not dictators, not even petty tyrants.

TRUE

They are subject to and must answer to the will of the people.

FALSE, at least in a civilized society. Prosecuters are sworn to operate dispassionately in terms of the law, not to respond to public passions. The fact that prosecuters are often, in practice, political hacks and persons of low character who answer to the will of the people and thereby dishonor their obligations does not mean it is right to be so.

The people have a right to know what the basis of her decision not to send the case to a Grand Jury was.

FALSE. There are all sorts of things related to an investigation or prosecution that the public does not have a right to know in real time.

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In general, I would recommend a study of lynching as an institution. A typical lynching was not a mob grabbing someone on the street. That happened, of course, but that's not what lynching was when it was epidemic. Lynching was typically a mob storming city hall and grabbing an accused person from police custody to hang the accused without benefit of trial.

The motive was invariably that the people felt the police and prosecuters and courts were not sufficiently responsive to what the public wanted.