Judgement, forgiveness – and my own inability

This land is my land. Whose?

 

You would be right to suspect, even conclude; that I like to explore definitions and meanings in my old dictionaries. (This has developed since my youthful teacher-boy days, decades ago.)

So my dictionary says to judge is “to form an authoritative opinion”, to be “judgmental” is to judge, but “to judge rather harshly”. Of course, older folks still believe that “Judgement” is that final judging of mankind by God.

These considerations surged as I contemplated the consequences of the Camp Street Jail Riot which resulted in the deaths of seventeen inmates waiting for trial for ultimate heinous crimes. The courts were thus denied the legal procedures towards determining if justice would have been served. And level-headed,