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Thursday, June 9, 2005
By Gordon Bishop
If You Sue and Lose, You Pay the Bill
America is losing its freedom, faith and right to self-governance.
America’s legal system is recklessly and selfishly out of control.
Lawyers, judges and justices are gradually destroying America’s economic system with class-action lawsuits, frivolous lawsuits, government suing citizens and citizens suing government – all of this suing and counter-suing costing business, government and taxpayers more than $500 billion a year.
Lawsuits are driving business and jobs out of America and to countries where there are few lawyers, or where bogus lawsuits are outlawed by such countries as England.
You sue. You lose. You pay.
That’s what America’s government, businesses and taxpayers need to survive in a hostile economic environment.
America no longer has a “legal” judicial system. America produces more lawyers every year than doctors, which have become the targets of ambulance-chasing lawyers. Hospitals are another target. As are any manufacturing companies that make anything that could be considered dangerous, such as ladders, paint thinners, motor vehicles, airplanes, scooters, skates, bicycles, knives…this list is endless.
The politically-correct Left believes we should and must live in a “risk-free” environment.
If it’s a risk, sue it!
There is no such condition as “risk free” in the real world. Walking down a sidewalk poses risks. So does driving a vehicle, flying a plane, operating a boat, snow or water skiing, ice or roller skating, swimming, painting a house, trimming trees or hedges, professional and scholastic sports, including weight lifting – you name it!
Just about any human activity involves some kind of risk.
Natural risks – over which humanity has no control – lead the destruction list with forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, droughts, ice storms, and on and on….
Two of the most powerful lobbyists – the American Bar Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association – spend tens of millions of dollars to influence elections.
There are more lawyers elected to State Legislatures and the U.S. Congress than any other profession.
The most powerful branch of the federal government today is the United States Supreme Court. Nine lawyers (justices) decide the fate and future of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Congress. Even the Executive branch of government – the Presidency.
That’s what America’s legal system has come down to: 9 men and women wearing black robes, all lawyers, governing the most powerful nation the world has ever seen.
Yes, “governing.” The Supreme Court is making laws, which is illegal. Only one branch of government is empowered to “govern” and that’s the U.S. Congress – the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
America is a Constitutional Republic. The founders created a Constitution to guarantee a Republic that represents the people by elections every so many years – two years for the House and six years for the Senate.
Congress makes the laws, the President either signs these legislative bills, or chooses to “veto” (reject) the legislation the President thinks is not in the best interest of the Republic.
The Supreme Court’s job is to review all new laws to make sure they are not unconstitutional – that is, against the Bill of Rights or Amendments in the Constitution.
Gradually, Congress gave up much its Constitutional powers, allowing the Supreme Court to make laws that must then be enforced by the Justice Department (Attorney General).
With the growth of lawyers and lawsuits, the Supreme Court hears cases, or not hear cases that impact all of our lives, both the public and private sectors.
One of the worst examples of the abuse of powers was the multi-billion-dollar, class-action lawsuit against America’s tobacco industry. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that billions of dollars would be paid by tobacco companies to each of the 50 states to ban smoking and to provide funds for those who became ill or died from smoking.
The big beneficiaries of this multi-billion-dollar court ruling were the lawyers who represented their clients who smoked or those exposed to “secondary” smoke in the workplace and public places, including government bureaucracies, as well as restaurants, supermarkets and other retail outlets.
The suit-happy madness continues. The reason: Too many lawyers and too many lawyers in government.
The Clintons are both lawyers. As are U.S. Senators John Kerry and his vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. Edwards made some $58 million suing doctors and hospitals for malpractice. Lawyers like Edwards are driving up the costs of health care, which are becoming prohibitive for most workers and businesses.
Health care’s soaring costs are draining the economy of billions of dollars a year.
As the old bard Bill Shakespeare warned hundreds of years ago, “First, kill all the lawyers.”
Shakespeare was on to something, but the people and their governments ignored this master of language and history.
There’s still time to purge the legal system of the massive mistakes made by an unelected Supreme Court under the influence of the lawyering lobbyists.
Congress can do it by enacting a law that would simply hold lawyers liable for all the lawsuits they lose for their clients. If they sue and lose, they pay all the legal bills.
That should clean up America’s “illegal” legal system.
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