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It is just sickening how much power these low life prosecutors have.
There doesn't seem to be any practical solution to the problem and it is just bloody depressing.

Now, I don't like liars, but let's face it: Nobody lies nearly as much as government officials. They lie. They steal. They defraud the American public on a daily basis. Lying to them shouldn't be a crime, it should be a constitutional requirement.

Farah invoking the Clinton defense, "THEY ALL DO IT."

Sickening.

It is just sickening how much power these low life prosecutors have.

What am I missing here? Did some prosecutor sentence Martha Stewart to prison? I thought they had to have a trial, with a judge and a jury and stuff. Did they skip over that part?

Or is it that judges and juries are stupid and lame, and we shouldn't allow such idiots to decide things like this? And if that's true, what system should we have instead?

When OJ walked, the story was that anybody with enough money to buy the right lawyers could get away with murder. This time it's that anybody with a lot of money will automatically be convicted. This time it's all about class warfare. Why?

I had the impression that there had been a trial. And some jury sat there and listened to both sides of the argument, and decided that she was guilty as charged.

I would never claim that juries are 100% accurate, but we used to have an agreement among ourselves as citizens that this system is how we settle these disputes. There is an appeals process, and that has yet to play out. It may well be that there was some error in the trial and that one or more of her convictions will be overturned. I do not claim to know.

But I still have the same reaction to rants like Farah's that I have to the Mayor of San Francisco marrying gays. "Yes, the law says X, but we don't want that. We want it to be some other way instead. Never mind that there was Grand Jury indictment and a jury trial. We don't like it."

I don't understand the utility in proclaiming that the legal system is broken, so we should have mob rule instead. In San Francisco the mob is gay, so never mind the law, let's do what the mob wants. Martha Stewart has a mob of "fans," and they know better than the jury whether Ms. Stewart is guilty. So never mind the trial, let's do what the mob wants. There cannot be good news down this path.