I have a distant memory from when I was about four years old. I told my grandma, with whom I was living, that I wanted to draw a picture of my dad. So I drew him, though I didn’t really remember what he looked like. I drew the bars in front of him. I drew the “cops” standing guard outside his cage. I drew pig snouts on the cops. I showed the picture to my grandma. I remember her not being pleased, as I thought she would be. She said something about my dad having done wrong. I imagine she was troubled by my nascent contempt for “the law.” She didn’t want her grandson to wind up where her son was. All I knew in my four-year-old mind was that some people had locked my dad up in a cage and wouldn’t let him go. That’s why I couldn’t see him. Who were these people?<\/p>\n
Maybe it would be better<\/a> that 2 million<\/a> guilty persons escape, than that 2 million guilty persons suffer what the State calls Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a distant memory from when I was about four years old. I told my grandma, with whom I was living, that I wanted to draw a picture of my dad. So I drew him, though I didn’t really remember what he looked like. I drew the bars in front of him. I drew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}