[headsonpikes]

I think AP's point, at least the one that I thought he was making, was that a similar upper limit of proportionality should be available to indigent small-time minor offeners as to the corporations cited in the article.

I, for one, think the U.S. lawyer-driven tort system can often degenerate into a sort of village soviet, seizing the kulak's illgotten wealth. See Mississippi, for instance.

I hope that's not too extreme a view.

[Congressman Billybob]

Mississippi used to be a tort lawyer Hell-hole. However, they have reformed their laws, big time. I had a meeting with some of the legislators who forced that reform through, almost two years ago.

John / Billybob