The Long Tong Of The Law Work -

Or think of the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46). The Allied powers could have simply shot the Nazi leadership. Instead, they used the long tongue of the law: months of testimony, documents read aloud, and a final judgment that called the Holocaust "the most horrible crime in human history." The tongue labeled them, shamed them, and wrote their infamy into eternity. Of course, the long tongue is not infallible. Sometimes it stutters. Sometimes it is bribed into silence.

We have all heard of the "long arm of the law"—that metaphorical limb that can reach around corners, across state lines, and into the darkest hiding places to drag a fugitive back to the dock. the long tong of the law

So, the next time you watch a legal drama, do not watch for the handcuffs. Watch for the moment the lawyer leans into the microphone, pauses, and asks the fatal question. Or think of the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46)

And it burns.

But there is a lesser-known, far more unsettling sibling in the idiom family: Of course, the long tongue is not infallible