Mr. Rick Green, a commentator for The Hartford Courant published an editorial on Friday, September 30, 2011 challenging attorneys, particularly large legal firms to step in and "aid the poor". Isn't that hilarious!?! A reporter actually believes that attorneys give a hoot about the poor.
What is this guys problem? Is he mental or something? Hasn't he heard the running jokes about attorneys such as the following:
Question: What do sperm and attorneys have in common? Answer: One in a million becomes a human being!
Question: How do you know an attorney is lying? Answer: His lips are moving.
Question: You are trapped in an elevator with a tiger, a rattlesnake and a lawyer. Your gun only has two bullets. What should you do? Answer: Shoot the lawyer twice to make sure he is dead.
Question: What's wrong with lawyer jokes? Answer: Lawyers don't think they are funny and nobody else thinks they are jokes!
Seriously, what's the problem with this guy Rick. Where has he been? Lost on a desert island somewhere? Ok, ok, I'll stop cracking the jokes. Let me get serious about this problem here.
Apparently, according to Mr. Green, in divorce, domestic abuse, eviction, and foreclosure cases more and more folks are representing themselves which results in a a situation in which the Court is not as "fair" as it ought to be.
Fair? Fair? Ok, I'm laughing so much my sides ache. Ricky actually thinks the courts ought to be fair? Really? Boy, from my experience of the Court, and that of so many other people, particularly protective mothers, I would never have known that the courts were supposed to be fair. What's going on doesn't look fair to me. I wonder--has this guy Rick actually been in Court so that he would know what's going on, because I think any one of us could share with him--hello, the Courts are not fair. And if you don't like it, too bad for you, because the Court couldn't care less.
Ok, this is interesting--apparently, it looks as though around 85% of all family court cases have an least one self represented party. That is definitely an increase from when I last looked the numbers up when I heard around 70% of family cases had a self-represented party.
Apparently, in Rockville Court almost all of the cases have a self-represented party. And God bless them too, because at least that way when these self-represented parties speak, they know that they are getting to ask for what they want to ask for and make the statements about their cases that they want made instead of having some dick lawyer shut them up. They may not win, but at least they can get what they have to say on record.
And let's get real, there isn't really a problem with self representation; the problem is that judges are so prejudiced against self represented parties that they routinely rule against them. Then, since this prejudiced kind of ruling often results in injustice, self-represented parties simply file appeals or file additional motions to rectify the wrongs done to them which leads to what Ricky tells us is a court system that is "clogged."
That sure is correct. Repeated and unrelenting cases of Injustice sure do clog the good old system. He got it right there.
And Ricky has it right as well that it is the poor representing themselves that causes the problem, or rather the newly poor. Because, you see, these self-represented parties might have started out with a little nest egg for themselves, they may have had retirement plans, maybe a little real estate after many years of backbreaking hard work, but then they hired your average family attorney in Connecticut, and you see, after that attorney sucked these self represented parties dry of every dime they had, they then became poor and needy of "help" from the same kind of attorney that exploited them in the first place.
Do you want to know how much it should actually cost to get a divorce in Connecticut it is such a simply matter--maybe $500.00.
How then do cases start vacuuming up multiple thousands of dollars in legal fees? I'll tell you how, from the vicious and exploitative practices of these very attorneys Ricky thinks should offer up their assistance for "free".
Judge William Bright is worried that self represented parties don't know what they are doing? Is he kidding? If you go to any court service center all the forms you need in order to obtain a divorce along with explanatory material is freely available along with the assistance of a law clerk who will spoon feed you through it. If you don't know what you are doing as a self-represented party, you should be ashamed of yourself. And that is without bothering to google all the information you need or go to the library where the librarian will show you all the reference material you need in order to get your legal matter completed.
No, no, no, what Judge Bright really doesn't like are the litigants who are not represented by attorneys who will stab their clients in the back and manipulate them into agreements that are not in their best interests, get them out of the court system, and back onto the street minus all their money, their children, and whatever self respect they might have had. Litigants who are represented by attorneys are far more easily manipulated into shutting up and doing what they are told. This is the real need this article seeks to meet, the need for attorneys who will make deals with other attorneys and with judges in back rooms and screw their clients.
That way the Court, judges, and attorneys can eliminate that pesky issue of "fairness" and justice and the constitutional rights of American citizens, concepts that are violated and ignored daily and hourly in our broken judicial system.
Make no mistake. Our legal system is corrupt, our legal system is evil, our legal system is harmful to the most vulnerable, to the strong, the weak, the average honest citizen, to us all. In fact, legal rights are an illusion to all but the elite few who are wealthy enough and well connected enough to obtain them.
So don't be fooled. This editorial isn't about helping the poor and the less fortunate. It's about continuing to shut up people who are self represented, who have investigated how the law is supposed to work, i.e. with fairness and justice, and who demand their legal rights. Yes, of course they have no idea what they are doing, because if they did they would know that the last place on earth to expect fairness and justice would be in a Connecticut Courtroom.
The legal profession should be ashamed, and not only the legal profession, but also journalists such as Mr. Rick Green who fail to dig deeper and investigate fully, and then tell fake stories fed to them by corrupt court insiders, ones that gloss over what is really going on and allow the corruption of the court system, particularly the family court system, to continue on without any scrutiny or accountability.
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