A worthy lasting legacy would be for Mr. Swartz's story to shed an undeniable and transforming light upon the farce that our "adversarial" justice system has become.

It is all too seldom about "justice" and all too often about "career".

And... these prosecutors are public employees. Our employees. We cannot and should not divorce ourselves from their malicious malfeasance, when and as it occurs.

Nor can we nor should we divorce ourselves from the system that creates it.

Swartz's case gains publicity through his prominence. But similar oppression, often combined with a grinding and defining lack of opportunity, plays out thousands of times every day, on the streets and in the families of this country.

We can't make it perfect. But we should be trying a damned sight more to make it better. If we are sincere about this.