We were not moved by the trickle of despair that leaked out of Iraq.
Let us be clear. Ultimately, law enforcement is carried out by the people who govern. That is, the citizens. So, the public is the ultimate judge and if criminality is to be exposed, it has to be made public.
Since the expansion of the citizenry to include all adult persons, there has been a consistent effort to restrict the venues in which citizens are active. The judicial system has been one such venue where there has been a consistent and persistent effort to remove criminal and civil actions from public view. Juvenile cases, for example, are conducted behind closed doors. So are many matrimonial disputes. More recently, preliminary hearings have been conducted remotely via electronic means, conveniently also excluding the public.
Secrecy is the key to power and the public is its only check. However, in addition to physical mechanisms to inhibit public participation (including security at the court house door), access to public information is also being restricted via gossip and falsification. That is what all the lying is for.
If the fraud of 2016 is to be corrected, it will require a public wave or tsunami of revulsion. How do we generate that?