“We DO need the criminal laws we have TO BE ENFORCED. “
No argument there in principle, but the US law enforcement and judicial system are actually very draconian. Within the past year we have seen Shalom Rubashkin sentenced to 27 years in prison and Martin Grossman executed. And Jonathan Pollard remains in prison, unable ever to appeal his life sentence BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY LIBERAL JUDGES at least at the federal level: If a convicted felon misses a deadline for an appeal, our Lock ‘Em Up and Throw Away The Key Judges with whom Republicans have packed the judiciary don’t care about justice, they care only about process. And it is attitudes like yours that are keeping the situation the way it is.