Whether some DUers like him or not

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

28. I think one of the major problems is that our concept

of 'justice' and 'the rule of law' goes back to Roman times, when everything simply rested on how good an orator your advocate was. We've gotten a little better on things like evidence, but far too often the least ethical lawyers win by using sleazy tactics like smearing the victim or repeatedly saying things they know the juries will remember, even if they're ordered to ignore them by the judge.

People who have lied in the past, committed crimes in the past, can still be victimized like the rest of us, but the mere fact that they have a 'past' is used to write off crimes committed against them - that 14 year old whose case against her rapist was in the news recently, for instance, in which the judge gave the rapist a 'pass' because the girl had had sex before.

People in 'white collars' destroy far more lives than any mass murderer with a gun, yet the suffering they inflict on millions is ignored when it comes time to penalize them even in the rare occasions when they are taken to trial.