“It’s time consuming, emotionally wrenching, unfair, and one way or the other, you’ll pay.”
That is true. As my meager experience attests! It was much more than an arraignment, and then showing up for the trial. It was anxiety, hours of preparation, gut wrenching . . . all of which I could have avoided by signing the ticket, but in conscience I could not sign it. I admit, my experience cannot compare to those arrested and jailed. Yet in the one case, the cop did not show up and I do believe I “sent a message.” The next Mayor of xtown took down that “revenue enhancement” speed trap.
“Felony court is traffic court on steroids and meth.”
I have no doubt that that is true.
If the Weavers can’t fight it and Clendennan can, OK the ones who can fight, do so not only for themselves, but the others whose circumstances do not allow it.
My only son died due to medical negligence and that loss affects me to this day, because I would otherwise have my adult son to help me with some of the legitimate battles of life. I do not.
It took three YEARS OUT OF MY LIFE. All we wanted was the truth.
I know that one reason, it fell to us, was that we could and would combat what our lawyer said was the “plantation mentality” of the hospital. In 1989! WE had to fight it, and I had to give up three years of my life, for Truth. YET, although it still affects me to this day, WE COULD act, and file papers, and hire expert witnesses out of our own limited pockets, because it was a dire priority for us to do so.
Other similar victims could not have done so. Our attorney said the same thing. It was beholden on us, and three years of my life, to get the truth, for not only our son, but other victims who did not have the education nor the even limited means we did have that we applied to the “case.” OH what a travesty of understatement, to call it a “case.” BUT we, mostly me, did what we had to for three years, to get the hospital to finally acknowledge, OK at least their own attorney apologized to us, something the doctors themselves would never do! Defending themselves and each others.
SO OF COURSE it is the duty of those who have the ability and stamina and some money, to fight for Justice. Not everyone can, and those who cannot, should not be blamed. Our attorney did not blame the other victims of the “plantation mentality” of the hospital; as a moral Person, he was GLAD to have clients who could send a message, for not only our son, but for parents who could not have sent that message.
We “won” exactly what? An apology by the attorney of the hospital, but it was a genuine personal one. A message to the upper reaches of the hospital: HEY you messed up! I expect that message held for some months at least and hopefully longer. Then, human nature, laziness even in situations of Life and Death, come back into play, and in the mean time, the standards were probably relaxed again.
But our son did not die for nothing. At least, with three years out of my life, the hospital got the message, for a while.
Human nature, human laziness, probably has crept back into the hospital
But the battle was worth fighting. Even though I am a wounded person because of the unnecessary death of my son, and the more-so, by the fight of three full years of my life.
OK those who can fight, have to fight, not only for themselves, but for those who can not fight.
Other than having given up my first born son, what can anyone else ask of me?
OK I can still engage in the Pursuit of Truth.