{"id":347142,"date":"2021-07-02T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=347142"},"modified":"2021-07-02T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:03:26","slug":"vice-and-virtue-sonnets-brief-tales-of-blind-justice-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vice-and-virtue-sonnets-brief-tales-of-blind-justice-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"VICE and VIRTUE SONNETS Brief Tales of Blind Justice Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four Forays into 4 A\u2019s on Justice<\/strong><br \/>\nFour four-line poems for the 4th\u00a0of July 2021.<br \/>\nFor all those who practice it, need it, and heed it.<br \/>\nFor freedom of the press &amp; newspapers that feed it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Aristotle (384 \u2013 322 B.C.) on Poetic Justice<\/strong><br \/>\nGreek philosopher Aristotle described \u2018poetic justice\u2019\u00a0<br \/>\nas \u201cbeing pain felt at either good or bad fortune if\u00a0<br \/>\nundeserved or to joy felt at them if undeserved.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Absolute Justice, Justice Absolute<\/strong><br \/>\na central doctrine or tenet of the Marines<br \/>\nwipe out evil and illegal activities<br \/>\nthe end justifies the means.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Abstracts of Justice<\/strong><br \/>\nabstract justice applies laws with equitable facts<br \/>\nand implementation of principles to matters<br \/>\ninformation to be disseminated in abstracts.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Administration of Justice<\/strong><br \/>\nstudying torts and lawbooks gives minds a nudge<br \/>\nup all day and night to find out what is right<br \/>\npeople stand in court rooms, \u201cHere comes the Judge.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Justice Commences Jumping Fences\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justice is and justice tries to find reasons why<br \/>\njustice walks a legal mile and truly takes a while<br \/>\nhow will the legal system treat all those that<br \/>\npass before them when trials come to a close<br \/>\ncourt procedures guide the legal explanations<br \/>\nleading to binding arbitration and negotiations<br \/>\nlawyers reveal multiple disputes and allegations<br \/>\nAristotle says, \u201cthe virtue of justice consists in<br \/>\nmoderation, as regulated by wisdom.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>And Justice for All<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> \u201cNothing is to be preferred before justice.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014 Socrates, Greek philosopher, 470? &#8211; 399 B.C.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFrom the 4th\u00a0of July to the far away future<br \/>\nlet us strive to make justice a prime virtue<br \/>\non Independence Day may we hear the call<br \/>\nand pledge \u201cliberty and justice for all\u2019<br \/>\nfrom the West Coast to the Philippine sea<br \/>\nlet the Pacific Ocean be pollution free<br \/>\nlet us all continue to seek justice for all<br \/>\nfrom small tropical island to big city hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Forays into 4 A\u2019s on Justice Four four-line poems for the 4th\u00a0of July 2021&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":321680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,304,5148],"class_list":["post-347142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-las-vegas","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}