Justice...and its counterfeits...

Slobodan Milosevic died this morning, according to Reuters...

Milosevic death robs victims of justice, foes say...

The Prosecutor says justice was denied...and yet something tells me that if the attempts by Milosevic's security officers to kill him would have succeeded, most people would be saying that justice had been done...

So what we mean by justice, often, is that we are able to hurt someone...not just that they are hurt...or that they die...

But that we get the sweet satisfaction of revenge...

Slobodan Milosevic is dead...he perpetrated horrific crimes against humanity...

And the saddest legacy of all that he left with us...

Was the unsatiated vengeance that many of his foes feel in their hearts...no matter how dead he might be...

Love,
Ben