A Validation: Forbidding Parking

I was at the courthouse today to pay a fine. Nevermind what the fine was for; as far as you're concerned, it was for being way too sexy, which is a crime in Minnesota.

Anyway, I noticed something that really struck a chord with me. It appears that Blind Justice here is missing half of her scales. That would mean, that her scale has a grand total of one platform on which to weigh morality.

I really feel that whoever commissioned this statue, and the artist who built it, was making a very bold, perhaps even controversial, artistic statement. To say, outright to the whole world, that justice is never fully balanced, to say that it's always going to be skewed one way or the other, to admit it fully on the roof of the courthouse is ballsy to say the least.

They don't draw much attention to it, of course, but it's there, silently telling the world, "We at the Beltrami County Courhouse admit, freely and willingly, that you will not recieve a fair trial. We will be biased. We will convict racial minorities and give them the harshest penalties, while we let rich people off the hook with a fine."

I think it's wonderful.