Dave and Terry, and Mbo, I've read your posts to this and other threads and I am very sure that all of you are people of good will, that your hearts are in the right place. As for this song and as for Junior himself I remain unconvinced. I think his directing this to Lincoln serves for him two purposes: first, setting up the audience to believe that he is concerned with human rights, and second, subtly suggesting that the problems with the courts' releasing of violent criminals grows out of an action of President Lincoln, and the action that all people automatically associate with Lincoln is freeing the slaves. There is no other way that Lincoln is relevant to the concerns expressed in the song, which I find not only not particularly good but particularly dishonest.

--seed