Are we talking about the same America here? IIRC only 18% of all US court cases end in acquittals.
No, 'they didn't Mirandize him' is not a technicality. It means it is possible the suspect was possibly not given information on the full implications of his confession.
No, 'we waterboarded the witness' is not a technicality, it means that you tortured testimony out of someone. A suspect.
Let me put it to you in a simple, straightforward fashion:
The US Justice is system is not a 'sick joke'. It's a beautiful construct, created by the labor of hundreds of attorneys and judges working for centuries upon centuries (including those British judges who created the common law).
Go back to the writing of the Founding Fathers, and you will find that one of the issue of greatest concern to them, when writing the Constitution, was the preservation of a fair trial by jury.
What makes Western Civilization - and specifically America - great is the presence of the adversarial judicial system, deliberately weighted to defend the suspect from the prosecution and the police.
Eliminate this system for domestic arson suspects - and the operating word is suspect -and you will eliminate the very basis of what makes America a uniquely free country.
Now, I am not defending ELF or ALF or any other arsonist or bomb-builder. These people, when properly convicted in a fair trial should be punsihed justly for their acts of evil, or, if spotted during the act by citizens, shot dead.
I am defending the ancient system of a honest, fair, adversarial trial by jury.
Let me remind you how important the system is: the act of 'depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury' was one of the reasons why the Colonists took up arms against the British.
