Honor Doomed By Courts

I’ve been jumping up and down like Daffy Duck on crack about the lack of honor and character in our country, particularly in sports.
Lately, the NCAA and the college campuses have been my whipping boy, where nearly every collegiate football and basketball team seems to be stocked with thugs, criminals, and deviants who aren’t worthy to even be in college, much less on the hallowed fields of athletic excellence.
But I must now admit that I have been wrong.
It’s not the colleges that are screwed up, absent any sense of dignity or character.
It’s us.
It is this society.
Specifically, it is the “us” represented by a broken judicial system that allows child molesters to go free on bail while first-time offender Martha Stewart goes to federal prison for taking a friend’s advice on a stock option.
It’s a court system that is flawed, dysfunctional, and almost completely useless, from the District Court that refuses to sentence drug dealers to any significant time, up to a Supreme Court that says it’s okay for cities to steal a citizen’s home if a developer thinks he can increase the property value.
It includes an arrogant, despotic judge in New York who thinks it serves the nation’s interest to jail a reporter who refuses to rat out a confidential White House informant.
Now, the American Injustice System is going to be used to rough up a university that has at least tried to show some semblance of integrity.
In 2000, Sione Havili was tried and convicted of throwing a milk jug filled with gasoline through the window of a Salt Lake City home, allegedly in retaliation for a gang-related drive-by shooting.
After this walking piece of pond scum finished serving just seven months of his pitifully insignificant one year sentence, he attempted to join the University of Utah football team.
In a rare display of honor, the university politely declined to welcome a gang-banging arsonist to its athletic program.
So scumbag Havili is suing the school’s athletic director and former president, claiming they violated his civil rights.
If it really is a “civil right” for felons to be allowed to besmirch a college’s sports program, to force their criminal element on innocent students and athletes, then this country truly is without honor or hope.
While the populace rails for honesty and integrity in sports, from the eradication of the steroids disease to the elimination of criminals from our pro and collegiate sports ranks, the lower life forms continue to force their cries of “it’s my right!” on a land already overburdened by the weight of dope dealers, cheats, spouse abusers, thieves, and murderers.
So now we get to see how badly Utah’s Third District Court is broken.
Sadly, in a country where it’s legal to burn the flag but illegal to pray in school, there’s little room for optimism.