Using Meditation to Deal with Feelings of Anger at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Problem:  Recently, in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not prohibit the government from conducting strip searches on people who are arrested for minor offenses, even if the police do not have any reason to believe that the individual is hiding something.  This could be used as a tool of intimidation for protestors and indicates that strip searches would be appropriate for people who are arrested by mistake (as in the facts of  Florence) and in cases when people are arrested for minor infractions, such as minor traffic offenses.

One Method For Dealing With This Decision in a Postive Way:  When someone on the Supreme Court makes a bad decision that causes you existential pain, you can either hold onto your feelings of anger, resentment and revenge or you can embrace forgiveness and move forward with your life.  So, we usually do not want to meditate on the scenario of the five justices in the majority being arrested for jay walking, stripped down and forced to cough while squatting, because this thought would be a meditation on revenge.  However, in this case it is an appropriate way to deal with your anger at the decision because it is our hope that such a scenario would lead to the justice's enlightenment on the issue of improper searches.  I have provided images to assist you with your meditation: