Now that Timothy McVeigh's execution has been postponed, we have an opportunity to note the priorities of our judicial system.

Technically, of course, a grievous mistake was made in not turning over documents to the defense. But the matter of his guilt or innocence will be unchanged, regardless of what emerges in these papers. At most, another conspirator may appear.

Ask yourself how much due process you might receive up against the IRS, how minor drug offenses are clogging up the courts, or how a "right" to abortion (strange how this is the only "right" in existence that simultaneously denies a fundamental right to someone else) is created out of whole cloth.

That the rights of a condemned mass murderer must be daintily preserved, in light of pernicious injustice that affects good citizens of the United States, does nothing to improve our system, but only betrays how bankrupt it has become.