MARTHA VS THE CHAPLAIN

I've vowed not to play the hypocrisy game, and I haven't followed the Martha Stewart trial, but I really am wondering if those folks who are worried about the power of the state coming down on poor Martha Stewart are also worried about the power of the state coming down on Captain Yee. Somehow I doubt it, but I'm not certain about that judgment. I would bet that for every poor, defenseless millionaire who is on the short end of prosecutorial discretion (and can afford the country's finest lawyers for whatever appeals can be filed), there are a dozen, fifty, a hundred people who are really poor and defenseless and on the short end of prosecutorial discretion, and they just have to live with it. So even though I can't muster too much sympathy for Stewart, I would be willing to argue that she was treated unfairly if that argument would also highlight the way that others who are much worse off are treated unfairly.