At holiday dinner my inlaw's inlaw in law, a New Jersey state prosecutor, told us that prosecutors now ask all potential jurors if we ever read "progressive blogs," and reject us from juries if the answer is "Yes." Meanwhile, if a perp has been, say, involved in an assault which nearly removed the nose from the victim's face, prosecutors are working closely with armed services recruiters to offer him the chance to avoid trial and punishment by accepting recruitment.
So here's where we are as a society: If you hold solid, progressive, core American values - the kind our nation was founded on and for - and you use the blogs to inform and refine those values, you are no longer a "peer" fit to judge others before the law. And if you are dragged before the courts, rightly or wrongly, you can count on your progressive peers having no representation on your jury.
But if you are a violent thug, our prosecutorial system will bend over backwards to see to it that you have a premier opportunity to represent America to the inhabitants of other lands. Apparently there's been a long history of "rehabilitating" criminals by steering them into the forces rather than into trial and incarceration. But recruiters are especially anxious to exploit this resource today to fill the ranks. So you take kids from the street, who have most likely already been traumatized before their own expression of violent psychosis brought them before criminal justice, and send them to a war zone so that they can experience even more trauma, commit more mayhem, and contaminate their fellow troops with their attitude.
In sum, our "criminal justice" now promotes criminals to the armed forces, and demotes progressive bloggers to having no citizens' rights to serve on juries and play our part in maintaining our traditions of justice. The world's been turned upside down. "Justice" - in the person of our prosecutors - is now tilted towards the evil, rather than tilted towards the good. Can only the most sweeping reform, including replacing a great many of our current prosecutors, set this system upright again?