Like you and me, only better
Or rather, like you and me but pushing to be better:
When U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow discovered the bodies of her husband and mother in her home last month, she was alone — without bodyguards or a police officer keeping watch over her from a car nearby.
Yet every day, politicians, from governors and mayors down to California’s school superintendent and Chicago’s city treasurer, routinely travel with protection provided by the taxpayers.
It is a disparity that is getting more attention after the killings of Lefkow’s family members by a man upset over a malpractice case and the recent shooting rampage that began in an Atlanta courthouse and left a judge and three others dead.
What about regular citizens? They are, after all, more likely to be the victims of violent crime that politicians and judges. I want my state funded protection too!
