With Friends Like These…

Another blatant example of different standards of ‘justice’ for different classes of people. Just look at all these luminaries rushing to provide character references for  disgraced Wilmington Trust officer turned convicted felon Robert Harra, Jr.:

A court filing Friday shows that those vouching for Harra include former Democratic Gov. Jack Markell, former Republican governor and congressman Mike Castle, and former Phillies owner Ruly Carpenter III.

Also seeking leniency for Harra are former Delaware Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey, former Delaware National Guard commander Gen. Frank Vavala, and former state economic development director Alan Levin.

And then there’s talk-show host Rick Jensen:

“If he tells me he had no knowledge of any wrongdoings, I will go to my grave believing him. … He and his family have suffered enough through this agony; an agony he and his family do not deserve,” Jensen wrote.

A quality of mercy from Jensen and the others that you won’t hear them express about those who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and forced to serve sometimes decades in prison.  Because, you see, they were minorities and they didn’t attend the right cocktail parties.

Yes, Alby is right. The issue is that double standard of justice.  But as long as we’re supposed to have a justice system that is blind to these inequities, Harra should be made to serve his sentence just like any other convicted felon. BTW, betcha he doesn’t serve it in Vaughn Correctional. But he should.