This story is a revealing look at the injustice of the justice system, the differences between the priviliged and the average American citizen within our law system. It will toch on the slow and possibly deliberate removal of our rights and privacy in the United States. We’ll touch base on several topics and just how U.S. citizens are feeding into the fear portrayed by our government and politicians. We’ll look at how politicians use our fear to infiltrate our private lives and create new laws to garner votes and insure they get elected or re-elected. A look at past history may enlighten you on some of these issues.

Lets begin this segment with the topic of Double Standards. Unless you live under a rock you know the law differentiates based on what class you belong to, basically how much money you have and what position you hold in society. If you are famous, rich, or a politician you are priviliged. Your immunity to the law depends on which of those categories you fall in. Then there’s the rest of us, or is it. Why is this? Because we allow it and sometimes even advocate it. The top category and most priviliged in my opinion are politicians and government officials. I’ll start there.

The laws that are put upon the average citizen in most cases do not apply to politicians. When laws do apply the sentences are negligent or simply monetary fines. In some cases they are removed from their positions of office, but they retain thier paychecks and benefits for life depending on high up in government they are. We pay our corrupt politicians even when they break their oaths and the law. The convicted politicians do not usually go to prison nor are they even arrested. If an average citizen commited a similar crime he would likely be jailed with no bail or bail set ridiculously high. He would be sentenced to a long stay in prison, a real prison not one of those cushy ones that the priviliged go to. We even have high ranking politicians that were convicted of sex crimes but you won’t find them on the sex offender registry, you know the one that over 700,000 others are on including young children. Coincidentally one of the politician that helped write the law. We’ll explore that subject later on. If we go to bottom of the governmental rung of power we get to the police. That’s right, they also enjoy a certain amount of immunity to the law. In most cases where they are charged with a crime the case is dismissed or no jail time is required. The crime is the same, the punishment should also be the same, shouldn’t it?

In my opinion the next most priviliged class are famous people. Does anyone actually believe O.J. Simpson wasn’t guilty. He got by with murder in my mind. We advocated that because he was famous. We didn’t want someone we idolized to be guilty of murder and so he wasn’t found guilty. If that had been any average citizen they would have been convicted, imprisoned for life if not executed and it would not have taken long in deliberation to do it. That’s an exteme case, but it’s very easy to find lots of cases where famous people got a free ride. Even when they are sentenced to jail the time is greatly shortened from the original sentence and they get special priviliges the average person definately would not receive. Once again we tend to not want the people we idolize to be submitted to the same treatment and consequences we as average citizens receive. They are rich and famous, this makes them better than the average citizen I suppose. I will admit I was greatly surprised when Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to jail time recently, although I’m not surprised she will get released early.

Lastly we have the rich. They can afford high priced attorneys that can argue and twist the law to no end. These people pay lobbyists to get their wants and agendas to the politicians. They manipulate politicians/lawmakers through donations and gifts. They are seemingly the untouchables, the elite. They are not necessarily in the public eye or even known by the average person. They are silent players. On the rare occasion they or one of their family members come into legal issues we likely will never hear about it nor will it ever be in a court of law. There are few exceptions to this, but not many in my opinion.

This is article one of a series.

All opinions expressed are my own.