James Farrar, treasurer and director of daily affairs for the Mississippi Justice Party, joined the movement in December 2011. He was dissatisfied with the state of the country, especially in politics, both on the Republican and Democratic sides. He believed elected officials were merely following the letter of the law and forgetting about ethics and the people they represented.
“We (in the Justice Party) expect politicians to act on justice-based principals and ethics, not just on what is legal,” Farrar said. “Today, the ones who aren’t zealots are just going with the flow and leaving the people out. We want candidates who want justice for all, rich and poor.”
Farrar refers to his position as an “acting-manager title.” His primary goal is getting legal paperwork completed to clear the way for alternative candidates in the 2012 election cycle.
The Mississippi Justice Party states as its main goals the obtainment of economic, job, electoral, U.S. and global health and environmental justice. According to the Justice Party’s website, the party’s plan is to “reverse the quickly growing economic disparity among Americans through comprehensive tax reform, significant housing and jobs bills (particularly green jobs), justice for workers, and fair treatment of seniors, veterans and others whose resources are in jeopardy.” The party is also committed to “the proposition that social and economic justice is an essential and vital American value.”
The Justice Party also seeks to change the way elections are financed and how Congress allocates resources; implement cost-effective and efficient performance-based health care and “stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, while ensuring that economic development and food production are enabled in a sustainable manner.”
Farrar was born in Clinton and attended Clinton High School. He later went to Hinds Community College, where he was majoring in electrical engineering and communications, but had to leave due to financial problems. He had many jobs over 20 years before joining the Justice Party, including working in a prison. Farrar has a daughter, Trinity, age 16.
