Duncan Faircloth: “I take the floor today to discuss an issue that is serious and becoming more serious every year, and that is the pitiful…”

“I take the floor today to discuss an issue that is serious and becoming more serious every year, and that is the pitiful state of our legal system. It is becoming harder and harder and harder to convict anybody of anything. You can catch them on tape, film them committing the crime, and then you will probably lose it; they will be found not guilty. No amount of evidence seems to be sufficient anymore. I think we have reached this sorry and pitiful state because we have basically let the system be controlled by lawyers. When you control the legal system by lawyers, you are simply asking a thermostat to set itself. Defense lawyers are twisting and bending common sense to let the guilty go free, and they are aided by judges--in many cases, hand-picked by the trial lawyers. The lawyers pick the judges. At every turn, you have lawyers controlling a system that makes no common sense, except to serve one purpose, which is for their benefit. The most recent example I can think of is the glaring stupidity involving the Oklahoma bombing case.”