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"There is a rather large percentage of this forum that will cheer the process on while attacking anyone who disagrees as a 'liberal', 'democrat', 'druggie', or 'soft on crime'."

Yes, and there is a rather large percentage of this forum that are complete idiots, and these two sets overlap to a great extent.

U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, later a Justice of the Supreme Court summed it up well:

"With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some sort on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who committed it, it is a question of picking the man, and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him."

Interesting quote. I've seen similar over the years. There was an article posted sometime yesterday concerning the arbitrary and capricious nature of the many laws and regulations that we currently are forced to live under breeding discontent with the status quo. This is a big issue with me. While I have some serious concerns with certain types of behavior, I have problems with criminalizing those that have no identifiable victim. Similarly, the millions of regulations that have the force of law should be a concern to anyone who thinks about them for more than a few seconds. There are examples of citizens (or should I say 'subjects') who are being prosecuted mercilessly by one of the unelected bureaucracies based on rules the citizen had no reason to even question the existance of.

The best thing that could happen in this country would be for congress to spend several years doing nothing but repealing laws/regulations. It should not take an impossible amount of time to become familiar with the laws and regulations we live under. With the CFR growing by thousands, if not tens of thousands of pages a day, it is an impossibility for any one person to keep up.

Personally, I think it's time to give our government a low-level format and reinstall the operating system (the Constitution) which has, like MSwindows become corrupted with cruft over time.

"With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some sort on the part of almost anyone"

This may be true - but it's also true that many criminals get off scott free because of technicalities.