Reply #16: I think what is being lampooned is priorities [View All]

[MissWaverly]

Of course, we are not proposing GITMO replace our legal system, but this country puts a lot of payola into glorifying violence, and into negative activities. What if we spent more money into trying to turn society into a productive one, where courtesy and honesty and positive values were held up. Other nations do not have our murder rates, our belief that violence is the way to solve problems, I am sure that you have seen the Miami CSI commercials where they show vignettes of the city while someone sings boom, boom, boom! There is a glorification of violence and the criminals which is wrong. There is a difference between trial by jury and the media circuses that have evolved of the O.J. Simpson case, Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson,
and Martha Stewart. These cases are no longer just a judicial process but have evolved into entertainment, I think that is sad and wrong. I also think that a fair trial does not require long trials that stretch on for years, if we cut the media, there would not be such an incentive to draw them out.