host: allen from boynton beach, florida, on the republican line. caller: my question is regarding the old way that people used to go to court. i mean, like to hundred years ago in the united states -- 200 years ago in the united states when they first invented court for all people. the first thing is someone would have a claim against you, then you could go meet your accuser and it would be very gentle and light -- gentleman-like, the whole attitude. when i got a ticket, and when i get tickets for driving, it seems like it still has that structure, yet it seems to have a barter system against to that sort of old structure that it had where you barter -- the cost of having this whole court where you get to meet your accuser, and the cost, you are board against it. i'm wondering now with these terrorists, the threat of this and the trial, i mean, the structure is still there but we are sort of swaying against it. are we looking at totally destroying that, the old structure of meeting your accusers, and with terrorism, are we looking at a completely n