If it wasn't so sadly tragic it would almost be humorous at seeing how the wife of the truck driver and his lawyer are now working overtime at trying to portray this poor, downtrodden, disoriented working class man as the victim.

Here goes:

<> He was victimized by a language barrier problem.

<> He was victimized because his daughter died nine months ago and that contributed to his distraction.

<> He was victimized because the railroad crossing was poorly designed near an intersection with another street.

<> He was victimized because Union Pacific doesn't allow enough time to provide advance warning of an oncoming train with the crossing signal electrical circuitry.

Here's a good one. I just dreamed up the following while temporarily playing the role of "bleeding heart liberal."

<> He was victimized because, as the lower and middle classes are being squeezed by income disparity with the one per centers, he was putting in so many hours at work to make ends meet and trying to put food on the table for his family that the exhaustion and fatigue caused him to drive in a disoriented stupor.

This list is not all-inclusive. Give it some time and I'm sure his wife and lawyer can come up with some more outrageous explanations as to how the driver was soooooo victimized.

What's scary is that, here in California, there's a very good chance that this truck driver will be able to find a "jury of his peers" that will take the bait on all of this nonsense. Especially if a majority of the members of the jury all have surnames that end with the letter "z".

Remember, this is the state the acquitted O. J. Simpson.

If you want justice, hold the trial in Texas. As we just saw, the jury didn't buy any of that baloney where that moron thought that he could commit any crime he wanted, including murdering two war veterans, with impunity, all by playing the "I have PTSD, I'm a veteran" card. It would have worked in California, but not Texas.

Creeping liberalism is pretty much erasing all respect for all laws and holding people accountable for anything.

In Germany, laws banning incest between brothers and sisters could be scrapped after a government ethics committee recently said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination.

I kid you not. And I'll bet there's a lot of people here in SoCal who are in total agreement with that German ethics committee.

[www.telegraph.co.uk]