Because the law, my boy, puts us into everything. It's the ultimate backstage pass, it's the new priesthood, baby. Do you know that there are more students in law school than lawyers walking the streets?
-Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate
A few years back, a man in Houston, Texas walked into a hockey rink and slipped and fell on the ice, injuring himself. The man sued the hockey rink for over $300,000 because the staff at the hockey rink did not post a sign warning people that the ice... was slippery. The man won.
If the United States is to ever come to an end as a nation, it will not be al Qaeda, it will not be some foreign nation, it will be from within. Common sense no longer exists in America. A woman spills coffee on herself, and wins a million dollars because no one told her it was hot. Good samaritans who attempt to help people in auto accidents get sued. People have sued McDonalds because they got fat after eating at MickeyD's 4-5 times a week. It's only a matter of time before somebody sues God.
We live in a nation run by lawyers. It's a law suit world. Pissed that your clutz of a son, who couldn't run 5 feet without tripping over his own feet, didn't make the varsity basketball team? Well let's sue the coach! Didn't get in to your top college choice because of a few bad grades? Sue your teacher for a better one!
It's a world gone mad, and now it's getting into politics. Letting the political process play it's self out isn't good enough anymore. When you combine the fact that the number of ideologue's in government is growing by the day, along with the fact that America as a nation is now trigger happy with law suits, it makes for a very lethal combination. Rather than relying on the rule of law it's self, politicians are now relying on law
yers to get them what they want. A recall
is a legal process according to the California state constitution. But what are the democratic ideologue's saying? "The republicans are trying to steal the Governorship just like they stole the Presidency." That's just a load of crap. The recall is a legal option in California. Now in the past, if you didn't like a law, you lobied your constituent, and attempted to change the law. Now you just sue, hoping to find some sort of loop hole, or a judge who happens to have been appointed by the party you represent, to at the very least delay a completely legal process. It was the same deal with the last election. Now I don't want to sound like a partisan ideologue myself by bringing up just democratic examples, the republicans are just as guilty. if it was a republican governor being recalled, i'm sure the exact same thing would be happening. it all just sickens me.
i'll finish my rant with a little bit of hope. it's a story about another frivolous law suit that actually succeeded. but in this case, the man who sued eventually got his in the end.
A Charlotte, NC, man having purchased a case of very rare, very expensive cigars insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company.
In his claim, the man stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires". The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The man sued.... and won.
In delivering the ruling the judge agreeing that the claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire", and was obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires".
After the man cashed the check, however, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.