I promised myself I would not go into a serious rant about the govenment right off the bat when I started this blog. Unfortunately, I really have to this time!
I have had many of my friends commenting on Facebook because I added a link to the story of the teacher that made comments about a young girls hair style on picture day at a school. I understand the problem with the parent being upset about a teacher posting comments about a student on Facebook! I even understand wanting an apology and a recant of those comments! Where I start to fall by the wayside is when the attorney for the mother let her believe she has a winnable case against the school board, the city (Chicago, Ill), the school itself, and the teacher! This is stupid!
This government needs to stop falling victim to all of these frivolous lawsuits because some person is offended by someone's speech. The constitution allows for freedom of speech to be protected from prosecution. This is not slander this is B.S. because the parent is simply searching for a payday! The attorney is searching for a payday! and the courts should be fed up with this type of blatent disregard for the laws of the land allowing this type of case to even be filed and taking up space in the courts. The city and the school board and even the c=school itself will give in and pay this idiot through their insurance policies instead of standing up and fighting for the rights of the country and beating this down. The comments may have been in poor taste! Granted, I will give you that! but the comments are not against the law. If you have a problem with a person laughing and making comments when your child ties Jolly Ranchers into her hair, DON"T LET HER DO IT! It is common sense and to have a teacher repremanded or even fired over this is just another way we as a country have allowed the abuse of people through the judicial system.
Every single day people are railroaded in criminal and civil courts because they are unable to hire high dollar attorneys to win their cases for them. Family courts abuse parents because they discriminate against non custodial parents and men in general. The family courts will bend over backwards to help women (especially abusive women) to have their children returned to them instead of allowing them to be placed with a non custodial father that has non history of abusing the child in question. God forbid the non custodial father has a felony record, even if it is several years in the past, because the state agencies will not even consider allowing the father the chance to have the child. Believe me when I say I speak from experience personally! I am tired of the judicial system beating down those that cannot afford to pay for an attorney to handle a family court case becaue it is flat out unfair. I understand the concept that the attorney has the right to take cases to make a living but there should also be a way for the non rich to afford the same representation. I had a friend tell me legal aid can do that. Except, legal aid told me personally they cannot represent me in a child support hearing because it does not fit into their charter of cases they will handle. I went through family court and was railroaded by the judge because I did not have an attorney. The judge set my child support based on a job I had not had for over six months which paid double what I was making at the time of the hearing. I cannot even get Lagal Aid to handle a child support reduction in spite of the fact I cannot afford the listed payment. Because the case was handled in family court and not state court the only enforcement that can be levied against me is a suspension of my driver's license. Because I live in another state my license can be suspended in my home state even if I do nothing wrong because the state where my child and her mother live refuses to allow me a Legal Aid attorney to handle the problem with or without me going back to that state and filing the case personally. Legal Aid attorneys and the Lagal Aid offices are a huge disappointment and they have a history of screwing everyone that is required to use them. Something needs to be done.
Well I guess I got off point a little about the judicial system screwing everyone but I believe the tangent I went off on is pertinent to my argument. Fix the system not the accused. Stand up for the law and stop allowing people to abuse the system on technicalities. Rich people skate free in cases because of their money. Politicians refuse to fix the system because they make money on the same issues and also from interest groups that want the system to stay the way it is. The little guy gets screwed constantly and that is wrong!
Well I will stop now with this comment:
If what they have done is illegal make them serve the sentence be it criminal or civil do not let the system being a flawed entity set them free!
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