If we do not learn from the past, the future is in jeopardy.     I heard laments all the time from people who cannot bring themselves to recognize that Democracy has a major side effect – RESPONSIBILITY.   To preserve it we have to intelligently protect it from the demigods who cannot accept the results of elections and/or use their public positions to violate the public trust.

After Operation Greylord was in the books and the Circuit Court of Cook County disgraced itself completely, the court went back to its old ways with a vengeance.    Even the clerk of the Court proved herself to be a blatant criminal.   The most recent revelation was found in the Court Sun-Times: