Cogs can think.

In the state of Louisiana, pro-deo lawyers are paid with the money the state collects via parking tickets. This means that if there aren’t enough parking tickets, you get a lousy lawyer. In fact, during the whole Katrina thing, when of course no tickets were collected, the poor people in the judicial system who cannot afford their own lawyer (90% of the people in the judicial system cannot afford their own lawyer), were basically defenseless. And remember, these states are run by barbarics, and state-sponsored murder is still used there. In Texas, it’s even worse. Like many other southern states in the US, Texas is basically third world material. Here, there is no system at all to fund lawyers for people who are too poor to afford one.

Fit motto…

In other words, your life may be on the line, but you’ll get a lawyer who is drunk, sleeps during the trial, or - the worst case ever - a homophobic lawyer representing… A homosexual. If you’re black poor and accused of murder, you’re fcuked. If you’re white rich and accused of murder, you’re not so fcuked.

It’s so sad. The US is such a beautiful country, full of friendly, open, and helping people - but its governmental system, its constitution - they have proven themselves to be unfit for modern times. The American government cannot feed its citizens, nor can it provide proper freedom and equality like we in The Netherlands enjoy. Their judicial system is medieval, at best, and an abomination to the western world.

How such a beautiful country and such a good people can be undone by such a crap governmental and judicial system.