Kenneth R. Cains was a poor man, an ordinary citizen like you and me. Later on the Republican dominated local media was quick to point out that he was drunk at the time he was killed. The Republicans want drunkenness to be a capital offense so long as it's not one of them who is drunk.

It appears that after running down the pedestrian, the killer sped away for miles to the front of the State Capitol Building. There he inspected the damage the killing of the ordinary citizen had done to his expensive vehicle. The victim had been smashed so hard and at such a high rate of speed that the Jeep's headlight was smashed. The bumper was torn loose.

The killer taped up the damage. He would get it repaired, but not nearby.

The killer didn't report the accident. When the news broke about the fatal hit-and-run, the killer didn't come forward. The killer made a false insurance claim. He reported that he'd had an accident on the Turnpike, safely remote from the slain victim.

The killer wasn't much worried. It wasn't his Jeep after all. It was leased for him by us taxpayers. We rented it for him because the killer was a big-shot Republican politician, Representative Thomas W. Druce. Cleverly, the killer exchanged the Jeep for a new model. We leased a new one for him. Then the death-car was auctioned off and shipped out of state.

Republican Representative Thomas W. Druce must have been relieved that the crime(s) occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It is a cesspool of Republican corruption and influence. An ordinary citizen doesn't have a chance against the machine.

Months slipped by. Nobody much cared about the victim, the ordinary citizen, Kenneth R. Cains. It looked like Republican Representative Thomas W. Druce would get away with it. But somebody came forward. Apparently a woman wrote an account to the Harrisburg "Crime Stoppers" outfit. Harrisburg is the seat of Dauphin County. The letter accused Republican Representative Thomas W. Druce. The writer seems to have had all the facts: the killing, the flight, the cover-up. There is wide speculation that the writer, a woman, may have been riding in the car with the Republican big-shot at the time of the killing. Republican Representative Thomas W. Druce is married, but reports say that just before the hit and run he'd left a bar with an "unidentified" woman.

Enter Republican District Attorney Edward M. Marsico, Jr. Maybe you think that the Republican District Attorney would simply arrest the Republican politician; not so in Republican Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Instead, there was a secret meeting at a plush hotel.

Everything had a simple, innocent explanation. Republican Representative Thomas W. Druce explained to Republican District Attorney Marsico that yes, he'd been driving the Jeep, but he thought he had just "hit a sign." He didn't explain what he figured a sign was doing in the middle of Cameron Street.

The Republican District Attorney was satisfied, but out-of-town media pressure forced a continued investigation.

Personally, when I test "justice," I like to reverse things. Suppose that Republican Representative Druce had been the victim. Suppose that the real victim, Kenneth R. Cains, had been the driver of the Jeep. What do you think Republican District Attorney Edward M. Marsico, Jr. would have done? Met with him in secret? Let him cook up the "sign" story? Ignore the fact that he fled from the scene? Ignore the false accident report?

By most standards crimes are indicated here: homicide by vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident, making false reports and perhaps others.

In Republican Dauphin County what matters is who you are. A powerful Republican is home free. You or me is railroaded. 

There are so many Republican politicians in legal trouble that you can't keep track of them all; crooks by the score! Luckily for them, Harrisburg the state capital, is in the Republican cesspool of Dauphin County. They have a free hand in Dauphin County.

Don't misunderstand me, Dauphin County loves to put people into prison. Republican Dauphin County locks up more people than anyplace else its size in the country. But it doesn't lock up big-shot Republicans. It locks up poor people and black people and helpless people and Democrats. Republicans get special treatment. Had it been poor Mr. Cains, he would be in a state joint right now. Instead, we are leasing a new Jeep for a Republican killer.