This is a set of two road kill figures that have the imprint of a tire tread down the middle of their backs. (toysofthetrade.com)
«When rulers have inverted their functions and enacted wickedness into a law which treads down the inalienable rights of man to such a degree as this,» abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Boston declared after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850, «then I know no ruler but God, no law but natural Justice.» (religion-online.org)