On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:31:13AM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:41 PM, Tom C wrote: > > >I would venture to say that none of us wants to see a guilty party > >go free. Speaking for myself, I even more so, don't want to see an > >innocent party found guilty and punished. > > > >The first case is most likely one of justice (or retribution) > >postponed. The second case is plain and simple injustice. > > > Thomas Jefferson said that it was better for 100 guilty men to go > free than for one innocent man to be imprisoned. We've lost sight of > that these days. > > Bob
The US Justice system isn't designed to provide justice. A better name would be Punishment & Revenge system.
