I can only really talk about the Texas judicial system.

About 85% of the court cases today are civil. Over time, our civil judicial system has turned into cattle herding exposé, which features real life dramas of people who come face-to-face with the realization that who ever has the most money and lies the best wins.

In Texas...there is no legal penality for perjury in a civil trial...well, with the exception of "failing to appear, lying about it, and getting caught. So, many of our civil trial attorneys can safely build their cases around ...the untruths.

In criminal court, if you are wealthy, then kick back, relax, expect the minimum consequence to no consequence. If you are a minority person who lives pay check to pay check...woe on your ass. If you are a white person who lives pay check to pay check, then it's a toss of the coin. In the course of a day's worth of trial, you could fry...or you could be playing chef at your own backyard BBQ celebrating your case dismissal. Depends on whether or not the prosecutor had a good night sleep.

The State of Texas is well noted for killing people. We use to hang people, then we took to electrocution...now we O.D. them on some very fine pharmacutical grade drugs. I don't think all of the executions have made any difference, but whatever rocks, I guess.

We've gone from labor farming and seperation lockdown of our prisoners... to constructing schools, vocational training for everything from bookkeeping to computer programming.

We have antiquated laws, corrupt courts, attorneys who are self-will-run-riot, correctional facilities that are ran based on the political power base of the day... either controlled by "Bible Belters"...or "Save Our Humanity Grassroots Organizations", or "Let's Kill All The Bastard Criminals" politicians who get elected by promising to "clean up crime".

Our prisons are overflowing. Our streets are running wild with violence. Our businesses are full of brainiacs who are scam predators trying to figure out new means of technology to steal using a computer and a digital feed floating in space that beams in and out of homes, banks, and governments.

I have only one solution that I can think of for all of our immoral woes...and two words say it all: "hydrogen bomb". Let evolution start all over again. What the hell, it has at least four times before. And each time, well, it seems that the next generation of lifeforms seem to do better than the previous.

Turn on ANY brand of political machine - and it automatically goes to the "SPIN and LIE CYCLE" wink

Yours Truly - Gregg