““Another field agent raised his hand. "I guess I've slacked off a bit because it seems no matter how many citations we issue against a particular hog farmer, they always get off. The big rule breakers all have attorneys and back-pocket politicians they call on to get them all overturned on technicalities." Rubella was pacing back and forth now, periodically tapping her riding crop on the conference table. "Well, of course, they do. This is America, for god's sake. That's why we have a bifurcated state government. There are those who catch and those who release. You can't have one arm of the government doing both the catching and releasing. That would be, well, you know, unconstitutional. Like one of those pineapple republics ... in South America. The legislature makes the rules, we enforce them, and then the judges let the rule-breakers all go. It's called division of labor.””
