This is only one of many such trial balloons that have been put up. If you really want to see something frightening, check this out. And believe me, this is just one example.

This has had a lot of play on talk radio--it had the same effect on me as that sudden swell of water under your feet when you are treading water in the ocean, like something huge has passed under you.

Everyone starts out thinking it's a big joke, like when Rush Limbaugh warned people a few years back that eventually the crackpots would try to make SUVs illegal. Not as many people are laughing now.

The concept of litigation has passed far beyond the borders of sanity. Actual cause and effect no longer mean anything, nor do facts or scientific studies. It has become, like you say, piracy. The looting of anyone who might have "deep pockets."

The objectives vary. The attorneys have only one goal: transferring vast quantities of money into their pockets. They could give a rat's ass about the politics.

Those who hire the attorneys are crazed totalitarian lunatics, who see the legal profession as a way to impose their will on us without the inconvenience of having to go through the channels of a democratic legislative process.