>Worse, it is teaching a generation (or more) that our justice system is stupid and broken. Quite the contrary. This is a lesson that we should all hope is we

>Worse, it is teaching a generation (or more) that our justice system is stupid and broken. Quite the contrary. This is a lesson that we should all hope is well-learned by the vast majority of people so that it can be fixed, rather then blindly venerated. >That in turn erodes ideas like rule of law that a essential to modern civilization. That "the rule of law" is necessary for a modern society to function doesn't mean that every system of laws is beneficial or conducive merely by its existence. The unfortunate fact is that our system of laws, at it exists, is "stupid and broken", in a wide variety of ways, and badly needs fixing. We can't start fixing our broken system until we come to terms with the fact that it is broken, identify the problems, and develop the solutions.