Comment by potato3732842
1 year ago
He means that if the state, courts and other systems don't get people justice or something you can squint at and call justice when they are wronged some fraction of those wronged will go outside the systems and seek to get even instead.
The (rare, perhaps crazy) people who shoot CEOs or armor bulldozers are what check the power of the state to ignore this part of its job.
An interesting individual I know is fond of reminding people that the Magna Carta has been a useful document for over 800 years, but the actual enforcement of the Magna Carta is that every time a monarch started acting like they were above it, a critical mass of people with the power of violence showed up to remind him that he was, in fact, just as mortal as everyone else.
The law is written on paper but fueled by blood.
Someone ought to remind Howard Lutnick of that. Again.
"Bulldozer man" was Marvin John Heemeyer, of Granby, CO.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer>