Colleague Bob Wilson of WorkersCompensation.com has been delving deeply into the disaster that is North Dakota "justice", at least justice as applied in the Sandy Blunt case.

Bob's efforts have uncovered some amazing stuff...

For instance, the same state that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars prosecuting Sandy Blunt for giving a few thousand dollars of incentive presents such as balloons and chocolate chip cookies and five dollar (five dollar!!) gift cards to employees also used a Predator drone to nail some farmers for keeping six of a neighbor's cows on their property.

Yep, that's a $154 million aircraft used to get $6000 worth of beef.

There's a new definition of RoI; it's no longer "return on investment" but Reminder of Idiocy.

Alas, some of the good bad folks of NoDak don't see that as a problem, instead choosing to hurl imprecations (for you NoDak Sandy-Haters that means "say nasty things") at Bob for his ignorance and temerity (again, for NDSHers, that means "unmitigated gall"; oops, that won't work...how about "excessive boldness"?).

Net is, they've been pretty awful, and not very articulately awful at that. Lots of "oh yeahs?" and "yo mama" type stuff, so much so that Bob had to shut down comments before the offenders sprained their brains tying to decipher his multisyllabic retorts.

But Bob says it better than I can. Go read his "People's Republic of North Dakota" piece and see for your own self.

And don't forget to sign up for the Friends of Sandy Blunt afterwards...

(Now before all the GOOD folks of NoDak pillory me, I know you're out there, admire you immensely for standing by Sandy, and appreciate your support for the guy. I'm also sorry you have to live on the same planet with those jerks)