>SNIP
>>Repeat: The legal system is already such that you may have broken any number of laws who knows how many times, intentionally. Let the one who lives in the glass house throw the first stone.
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>So, if you've ever received a parking ticket or exceeded the speed limit, you cannot comment on someone who has done murder or serve jury duty? I think I may use that argument to get out of jury duty in January... :o)

You may try...

I meant this as an argument for doing the legal system from scratch. Lay down some principles (not principals!), and then deduce everything else from it, with a minimal number of exceptions. Then we may have a system. This historic hodge-podge is too expensive, too contradictory, and too dependent on how deep and far can your search engine (aka lawyer) dig. Anyone can be guilty if need be, as it is.

Just the recent example: the payday usury is somehow still exempt from the usury laws (well, FWIW, so are the credit card companies). Now there is a federal law against them but it applies only to lending to Marines. Huh? What's next, a law with a list of names of people to which it applies?

It's getting too complicated, too easy to get out of hand, and it's already too expensive.

There's some food for thought when you get into that pen :).