In an ideal world, this last season – with its off-puttingly funky courthouses and irritating Sandbrook diversions and part-blind legal superwomen – would have never existed.
Other devices have targeted banks, police stations, army barracks, churches, embassies, the headquarters of political parties, courthouses and government buildings.Around 80 groups have claimed responsibility for these attacks.
Even the buildings are not immune; around the country 3,200 courthouses are "physically eroded" and "functionally deficient", says the National Centre for State Courts.This affects courts' functioning in many ways.
In 2005 it ruled that framed copies of the Ten Commandments in courthouses and public schools in Kentucky were unconstitutional but that a giant granite monument of the Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol was just fine.
By coincidence, a judge in California ruled on September 11th that four fires set by the same arsonist within a couple of hours in four different county courthouses constituted four separate occurrences.
But on March 2nd the Supreme Court heard his appeal, along with another involving framed copies of the Ten Commandments removed from two Kentucky courthouses.
In the first few days of 2006, police stormed courthouses and the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt in protest at the killing of one of their own men in a clan shoot-out, forcing the crossing point a first test of the PA's ability to run its own borders to close briefly.
In June, for example, she voted to remove framed copies of the Ten Commandments from the walls of two Kentucky courthouses, and to remove a monument inscribed with the Decalogue from outside the Texas capitol.
His firm is completing two federal courthouses, one in Islip, Long Island, another in Phoenix, Arizona, and houses in Kuala Lumpur and Naples, Florida.
The group is reported to have emerged last November, when it claimed responsibility for attacks on courthouses and legal offices in Uttar Pradesh state.
The usual stories are circulating about ballot boxes mysteriously disappearing on the dark country backroads that stretch from the polling spots to the county courthouses where the votes are finally counted.
