Why the truth is not in them ??

@millercarbon, I hope you did not mistake my comment as having been directed at you.   It wasn't!

Trust is definitely the glue that holds our society and economy together.  In my experience, fortunately most of the people I interact with are "trustworthy", not all, but most seem to be.

With regard for buying and selling on this site, whenever someone reaches out to me about purchasing an item I have for sale, I will only deal with them if they make an offer thru the site, not with the email exchange, that way if they jerk me around, I can report them to Audiogon.  I had a guy go back and forth with me on the purchase of an SACD player, we came to terms on the price and when he arrived at my door he said on the drive he decided to offer me $600 less than we agreed to.  To bad he wasted his time on that 90 minute drive to and 90 minute drive from my house.  I don't deal with people like that.

I live in UK one thing we do have (I so feel) is a fairer Criminal justice system in the courts in comparison with the Criminal justice system in USA.  I remember an article written before the OJ Simpson trial which looked at the status of lawyers involved on the Prosecution side and the status of lawyers involved in the Defence team of OJ Simpson and concluded that because OJ Simpson has the more experienced and better lawyers, he will probably be acquitted.  In UK we also have good and better lawyers, but we do not have situations where a case is decided on the capability of lawyers; it would make a mockery of the justice system, cases are decided on the cases itself, the evidence given and so forth...

In the UK, as in Canada, horrific murderers are given ridiculously short sentences...even for multiple murders. That is why compared many other countries we have a higher incarceration rate. We punish criminals and keep them in jail longer. We don't execute too many, but we do keep them in jail longer for serious offenses.