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To: gao seng who wrote (216410)1/10/2002 1:18:11 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Respond to of 769670
 
That was an amazingly good and an accurate analysis of the American legal system. Excellent.

She just wants to sue, and when she goes to court, the lawyer picks out the dumbest, most manipulataple jurists possible, and then wins.
Ain't that the truth. That sort of thing had a lot to do with the OJ Simpson judgement- -among many, many others.

There is no defense a corporation has to this type of blackmail, that Jesse Jackson specializes in.
Ah, yes, Mr. Extortion.

Their is much reason to be skeptical of the government. Or big business.
True.

But still, when the legal system is based on the lowest common denominator of society, it is susceptible.
There is all too much truth to that. The more intelligent and better educated usually can and often do find a means of avoiding jury duty. What's left becomes the jury.

I am predicting a confrontation between the warlords of poverty, and the rest of America.
"Warlords of poverty". I like that phrase! Who do you have in mind?