Due process must protect people from kangaroo court type situations is a given. No argument there.On the otherhand due process in cases where it is absolutly easily established that the guilt is real seems to be stretched out more timewise and money wise than should be required.

Or it seriousy seems to me with this one going on for three to four years. He had to know the potential penalty for what he did as he was a well educated fanatic apparently.

If insane that would have been established in mere months. In a way you have to be an unbalanced person in my opinion to get yourself into a situation like he did. Since this is an army case the fees and costs involved for the legal work may be less than normal.

For example if I decide to shoot and kill a lot of people. If there are a lot of witnesses and it is absolutly certain that I was the offender. Should hundreds of thousands of dollars be earnt by the legal and justice proffession over many years to deal with it? One has to ask whose interests are being served there. I assume that all too much of the costs fall back onto the general taxpayer.

I have nothing against the legal proffession at the same time. They are just doing what too much of what society in reality already does.

Last week I was in my dentists chair for example. A quick calculation is that the provincial recomended fee schedule. A guideline of what dentists should charge locally. Amounted to somewhere between four to five hundred dollars or a little more per hour for the type of work he did on me.

Since the fee schedule is primarily engineered by dentists of course it is written in ways that can benift them as it did in my case. The work went smooth and quick but the fee schedule in my case was based on potential difficulies with no adjustments for the lack of them it seems.

Yes I am well aware of the costs of overhead for business as well. My issue is that the tendency to have rates applied that go beyond reason is becoming ever more common.

I have no issue with the other guy making a decent buck either. Yet in my mind going beyond reason in my opinion does concern me. It can eventually kill a system. Fortunatly I can absorb this type of billing. I am all too concious of the fact that many in society cannot.