Rule of Law
An unfortunate outcome of a system of governance based on the rule of law is that there are lawyers running about. I'm a big fan of the rule of law; a smaller fan of the legal system.
The settlement package arising from the residential schools mess in Canada proposes to pay survivors about $30,000, on average, while the law firms involved will be paid $80 million.
"Hey, we worked hard," say the lawyers. Not the point, says me. Instead of strutting about on the value provided and the rewards earned for their work, the damn law firms should be heralding the inequity of the amounts they're getting paid out of the barrel of money, in comparison to what those who as mere kids were yanked from their parents, generously eviscerated of their culture and buggered and beaten by the salvation crowd will receive.
Here's part of a solution: order the churches to pay the legal and court costs of the victims in the class action (and then those amounts saved by the gov't as a result can be further divied up among the surviors of the abuse). And if that results in a few more church parishes collapsing into bankruptcy, then there's an added bonus bit of justice for the victims.
Now that I think about it, the legal system ain't bad compared to organized religion.
The settlement package arising from the residential schools mess in Canada proposes to pay survivors about $30,000, on average, while the law firms involved will be paid $80 million.
"Hey, we worked hard," say the lawyers. Not the point, says me. Instead of strutting about on the value provided and the rewards earned for their work, the damn law firms should be heralding the inequity of the amounts they're getting paid out of the barrel of money, in comparison to what those who as mere kids were yanked from their parents, generously eviscerated of their culture and buggered and beaten by the salvation crowd will receive.
Here's part of a solution: order the churches to pay the legal and court costs of the victims in the class action (and then those amounts saved by the gov't as a result can be further divied up among the surviors of the abuse). And if that results in a few more church parishes collapsing into bankruptcy, then there's an added bonus bit of justice for the victims.
Now that I think about it, the legal system ain't bad compared to organized religion.
posted by Heipel at
1:10 PM
2 Comments:
I always wanted to be a lawyer. those robes can be mighty sexy. and using legal jargon in everyday life is fun. As Reese Witherspoon says, I object! Justice is unfortunately blind when the settlement was made. It looks stinky to me.
looks like your rant is working again. what pisses me off is how easy the churches are getting off. however I there is so much injustice in this and every other corner of the world that I would rather just not give a shit.
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