There is no question that politics play a major role in the induction of legislation proposed for law becoming law all throughout this country because politicians are the ones charged with studying proposed legislation and writing the law as it is to be followed by the people. But after this aspect of the law is done and it is signed into law by the head Governing body of the states that's where political influence should stop. But the reality of the matter is, it does not. It would appear that even after the laws are made and inducted into the standard by which society must follow now regulated by the judicial body, politics still hold power over the carriage of justice and even the miscarriage of justice as it applies to the letter of the law.

The fact stands that we cannot allow for politics to validate the laws under the legal system or depreciate the weight of justice as it applies to the people based solely on political opinion. The law should be final... for it is based on the weight of fact void biased opinion; not political pressure of politicians seeking re-election, or Governmental agents seeking to keep their jobs at the expense of those due proper consideration under the law. Today we see that the application of law has become a flunky to political control. This is based on quite a few factors: Class divide, economical standing, prestige or affiliation. Should you find yourself outside the scope of one of these factors, you become one of the many bogged down in the quagmire that leaves to debate questions like the one discussed here: "politics versus law."

Debating this wouldn't be so critical if a person's freedom did not hang in the balance. But the reality is, thousands of people's fate does; mine being one of them.

Today Virginia currently has a parole system that is under the law approved by politicians and signed into law by the Governor of this state that's openly and flagrantly being abused. The law states that the Virginia Parole Board is to release on parole those persons found eligible who are locked up in Virginia institutions, yet due to fear of political back lash political pressure keeps members of the board from releasing those who have more than met the criteria by the letter of the law to be fairly and truthfully considered for parole.

Never should those under the law be subjected to misapplication of the law when it applies to the letter of the law. Where's the justice in that? So the law was enough to be tried by, convicted by, and sentenced by, but not strong enough to be fairly considered when release is at stake due to no reason other than political pressure? We cannot allow for politics to dictate to weigh of justice period. If the law is the law, then the law is what we should be held accountable to when it's in our favor, and when it's against us. That is justice and what justice stands for.

In conclusion, the role of each department, be it the legislative branch or the judicial branch, is to set the example of proper application being in the position of elected officials of the people for which they are supposed to serve. Not abuse the power that is given to them for their own glorification for political aspirations or economical gain. The law is set in place for the benefit of us all in the effort to make the society we live in a better place. The reality is, we all make mistakes in our lives, some worse than others. But this is where we as a notion need to extend the full arm of the law to aid those who have fallen, not unjustly oppress them with back-room politics and miscarriages of justice. For it can never be overlooked that justice is blind. Nor can it ever be overlooked that the success of any nation is not in the examples of those living out in society, but rather its failures by the amount of those being held in its jails and prisons... Especially when those being held are being held unjustly due to political pressure. Politics stop its inducement on the law at the point that we stand up as the people and say - - "No more!"