Then your E-mail rambled a bit. I assume that you did not say this just to provoke comments on socialists, liberal elitists, 'women libers' and 'environmental wackos'. So let me reply by saying that every society from the most primitive to the most advanced has rules of behaviour for individuals and groups. And since the beginning of time the custodians of these rules have been chiefs, clergy, legislators, prosecutors and judges. Literally a society is most efficient where the rules produce, or deal with, the least 'social friction'.
Friction raises the cost of every business transaction in the country.
This should warm the hearts of all clerics. The first is really big, the present 'blacklisting' crisis. In this connection the Bahamas signed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the U.S. in 1992. Under it either country can use the other's legal system to pursue criminal suspects. Unfortunately the Bahamian drug lords and a network of lawyers, politicians, policemen, prosecutors, justices, and bureaucrats corrupt the justice system.