Marc, Greg, Your responses were very interesting. I guess, my perspective comes from a much more broad based familiarity with legal system from around the world, since I have dealth with the regulatory system internationally since 1975. For example, in the Russian legal system, if someone does not pay taxes or steals something, the loss to society is deducted from their paycheck. THEY ARE NOT SENT TO JAIL which costs society even more money. (Of course in the US, this money goes into the pockets of rich people who run the prisons for the states). If France, and most other EU countries, they deal with small crimes, (e.g. drugs, illegal prostitute, illegal gambling, etc.) tax issues and small dollar crime issues in similar ways, where the fines cover the loss in tax review or money to the retail establishment. THEY DO NOT SEND TO JAIL. Remember debtors prison? Most of the world had made them illegal for hundreds of years. Not the US. The US has twice as many people in jail, per capita THEN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. US citizens are not bad, we just have a legal and penal system that is screwed up so rich people can make more money. Don't get me started on the FBI and other police experts who faking evidence against innocent people. You can read all the literature about that. 1/3 of all people on death row in Illinois were INNOCENT, proven by DNA evidence. What kind of legal system is that? Bob Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/