[A. Pole]

Well, that's some sort of justice, I suppose. Just not the kind one associates with a free country.

In some sense it is a sign of freedom - most of the dictators and totalitarian regimes are to smart to bother with prosecuting people who hunt for deer on their own property to shelter them for 15 years at the government expense.

This love of mass imprisonment is a sign of democracy educated on Jerry Springer shows.

[headsonpikes]

"The love of mass imprisonment is a sign of democracy educated on Jerry Springer shows."

I'm astonished when I see folks boasting about the 2,000,000+ American men in prison. It's not as if there are more bad people in the US than elsewhere. And it's not as if there are more criminals in jail than outside.

Violent monsters are released to prey again, but clumsy rule-breakers who've pissed off the IRS, DEA, or whatever, are sentenced to what amounts to death in prison.

Once, the principle was 'Rule by law, not by men'; now it is 'Rule by lawyers, not by men'.

There's a difference.