Remember back in 2007 when Barry Bonds was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice? Those charges were for Bonds allegedly lying to the grand jury by testifying that he never knowingly took any illegal steroids.

The trial started yesterday, March 21, 2011. Bonds last played baseball in 2007.

Some reports say the government has spent over $50 million for the investigation. There’s a good chance even if Bonds is convicted that he won’t serve a day in prison.

This is freaking crazy and it’s a justice system that has run amuck.

I have been in Barry Bond’s corner and I have wriiten about him and baseball HERE, HERE and HERE over the past five years.

But it’s not about Barry Bonds and whether or not he used steroids anymore. It’s about some asinine United States Attorneys using what they feel is an unlimited supply of taxpayer money to prosecute a former baseball player – when our country is broke. It’s about getting Barry Bonds at all costs, although that price is not a burden to the U.S. Attorneys.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston should have thrown this case into the trash bin several months ago.