Wil's Rant

The facts as described are bad enough. Reportedly hundreds of children involved, many people charged, some very prominent people in Portugal accused of crimes against children. That in itself is bad enough. But it gets worse. According to the report, over 60% of persons polled state that they do not believe that justice will be done in the cases! Sounds like the people of Portugal have just as much faith in their justice system as people in Canada. Somethings gotta give. For a civilization to last, one of the fundamental requirements is that its people believe in their legal system. When a large enough portion of the populace looses this faith, anarchy and chaos results. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm sure it must start with a decrease in the number of false convictions, corrupt police, and proper sentences for those properly convicted of these types of crimes. We owe it to the kids, we owe it to ourselves.