I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."

-Detective Thanet.

The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said:

"D'you like your job?"

The detective considered the question, and replied:

"Yes—yes, I do. I know it to be useful, and I am fitted to it. I do it quite well—not with inspiration, perhaps, but sufficiently well to take a pride in it. It is full of variety and it forces one to keep up to the mark and not get slack. And there's a future to it. Yes, I like it. Why?"

"Oh, nothing," said Peter. "It's a hobby to me, you see. I took it up when the bottom of things was rather knocked out for me, because it was so damned exciting, and the worst of it is, I enjoy it—up to a point. If it was all on paper I'd enjoy every bit of it. I love the beginning of a job—when one doesn't know any of the people and it's just exciting and amusing. But if it comes to really running down a live person and getting him hanged, or even quodded, poor devil, there don't seem as if there was any excuse for me buttin' in, since I don't have to make my livin' by it. And I feel as if I oughtn't ever to find it amusin'. But I do.

We are gratified that justice has prevailed in this case.

We are gratified that justice has prevailed in this case. Our laws prohibit aliens who are living here as our guests to use this country as a base to advocate terrorism or support terrorists. We will use every tool at its disposal to restore integrity to the nation's immigration system and protect the community from those who might attempt to do us harm.

Wading in the waters of complacency does not do me any justice as those waters simply mimic the boisterous demise of the fundamental core of our existence. I’d much rather perform laps within the waters of controversy, as the laps themselves perform their justice.

Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.