Still struggling with what happened this weekend and have
been doing my research. All things point to us being screwed. The guilty party
has no culpability because well, there isn’t any law that deals with the
situation unless a human is hurt and then there is only civil liability.
I would have hoped that there is a way to achieve justice. I
spoke to one attorney who said he took a case all the way to the Texas Supreme
Court and everything applied except the Texas Supreme Court made one exception
to a rule of law that was already in place. And yep the exception was exactly
what his case was about and it was written into the ruling of his case. And of
course a realistic ruling would have benefited us. It would not have fixed the
wrong, but would have addressed to a point the person being held responsible
for what happened.
Yes… the Texas Supreme Court decided in favor of protecting
a few business interests instead of helping a much larger group of the
population as a whole. In case you didn’t know the Texas Supreme Court is
elected, not appointed. So guess what? They need to raise campaign funds and in
Texas, our wonderfully business friendly State, most of the campaign
contributions come from businesses that might have cases that come before the
Court. I have always thought this wrong, but what does a person do. Now I am
sitting on my backend crying over spilt milk because I never thought their
level of justice would affect me on an intimate personal level.
I can understand local Judges running for office. It would
be way too expensive and cumbersome to appoint the multitude of Judges needed
to run the judiciary system of a large County, much less the whole State. It
does boggle the mind though that the Court that decides cases that affect the
State as a whole is elected. It just opens the door for abuse of the Judicial
system the same way the legislature is bought; oh excuse me, elected using
campaign donations.
We need a major revamp of the entire political process in
our Country. I am just wondering what it will take to get us, the citizens, to
rebuild political integrity and take charge of what could be the best political
system in the history of the world. It will never happen as long as money rules
the roost.
We are still researching to see what legal recourse or other
avenues we can take short of doing anything illegal. I still like wondering
around outside on a sunny day.
More to come.
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