[TimesDomain]

This is to the rude responders to MeneMeneTekelUpharsin:

Typical of a progressive attack method - when you have nothing to say against truth - PERSONALLY attack the messenger.

There is more and more of this progressive attack method seen on FR - very sickening, and worse, frightning because these are those who now call themselves republicans.

[Tulsa Brian]

Amen.

[Louis Foxwell]

The writer mentioned 2 important issues.
1 - traditional morality has been replaced by the personal authority of those in positions of power and prestige.
2 - lawyers consider the law to be their personal domain.

Access to the tools of the law is available exclusively to those who either have substantial resources or the necessary connections in the system. The enormous volume of cases coming into the system has resulted in a prosecutorial methodology that does nothing to assume innocence.

The average citizen is severely oppressed when the law is used against him. He typically does not have the resources needed to fight back to protect himself. Protecting oneself against the tyranny of the law is only possible if one is willing to spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Plea bargaining is the traditional tool of prosecutors for dealing with caseloads and keeping their conviction rate high. This allows the accused to plead guilty to a relatively minor charge rather than face the daunting task of proving his innocence against the unlimited resources of a prosecutorial office that is indifferent to innocence.

States Attorneys have no interest in determining the truth of a charge filed by state or local police. They pursue the case purely as a matter of adjudication. If the defendant does not have the resources to protect his rights he is found guilty.

Our jails are full of people who were considered guilty by government bureaucrats who have no interest in determining the legitimacy of a charge. Police file charges against an individual as a pro forma device for getting rid of a case. They basically kick the situation over to the prosecutors and the courts to determine guilt or innocence.

Prosecutors then do the same thing, assume guilt unless the accused is able to protect himself from the blind arrogance of power that is the government legal system. The fault lies with a system that rewards convictions without concern for guilt or innocence.

Prosecutors are supposed to investigate with a blind eye to determine adequacy of evidence to bring a case. Only in the rarest of cases does this actually occur.