We are presumed innocent until proven guilty. This is a farce. The trouble with this is that too many innocent people are unshielded from this supposed presumption and are still dragged through the ordeal of being socially stripped of any respectability they may have worked so hard for, while criminals are paraded in their finest in front of cameras and all over newspapers. Then, depending on the skills of the lawyers or the incompetence of the legal system, the innocent may be jailed and the guilty go free. There is also the presumption of what is legal and what is not as laid out by our forefathers who themselves lived in barbaric times. How could these old, almost ancient laws govern a more moral society? How many of us know of people who are involved in dog fighting and its just calmly dismissed as just another sport. Maybe more of us should see the real cruelty and perhaps we too might react like Senator Byrd