By now, Massachusetts lawmakers are back in their home districts, ramping up their re-election campaigns and flashing sweet baloney grins at fairs and forums. In their cheeseball bids, a sick majority of them will tout their unflinching support for the newly passed repeat offender bill – better known as “three-strikes,” or “Melissa's Law” after murder victim Melissa Gosule – which will jail certain criminals for life with no chance of parole.

The hundreds of people who rallied in the Harvard Square pit tonight weren't just there to demand justice for Trayvon Martin. Nor were they merely there to call attention to the atrocity that was unleashed on the state of Florida, where the unarmed 17-year-old Martin was shot and killed last month by George Zimmerman, an overzealous neighborhood watchdog who has yet to be arrested.