Jeffrey A. Tucker has a great piece up at LewRockwell.Com on how the justice system really works. Very informative, although I think he’d find it even worse if he took an even closer look (hint: Most “plea bargains” aren’t to the defendant’s advantage, but simple prosecutorial extortion with threat of sanctions to keep the defendant as far as possible from a jury).

There have been various movement efforts to take on the “justice” system (FIJA, FEAR and JAIL all come to mind), but I have to wonder if more concerted — and targeted — action might not produce results. Perhaps a “model city” in which an organization came together to provide competent attorneys, encourage victimless crime defendants to guts it out to jury trials and derail the judicial gravy train, etc.

Ideas?