Real Justice at Last
Recently there have been several cases where victims have received compensation for crimes that took place several decades ago, with the perpetrators of those crimes imprisoned.
However, there are still several more cases going through the courts for crimes committed in the past. Yet still more victims are coming forward too, all making claims for compensation for trauma and hurt caused years or even decades ago.
Many blame the lack of adequate compensation for injury ��� either real or imagined ��� caused by living in decades where there was little or no compensation culture. Sometimes younger people today are horrified to learn that in decades even in living memory it was possible to trip up in the street and blame no-one for one���s own clumsiness. Back in those days, though, there were no desperate law firms ever eager for customers. All willing to take on the flimsiest cases with little or no regard for common sense, natural caution or even an ability to watch where you are walking.
Back in those Dark Ages, anyone tripping, stumbling or falling into water would be the one blamed for their own stupidity, clumsiness or drunkenness. It would be them and them alone who suffered the consequences of their actions. Nowadays, however, we live in more enlightened times where it assumed that everything that happens must be someone else���s fault. Thus, compensation should be paid no matter how stupidly people behave. After all, these days, we are all so perfect that whatever happens to us must be the fault of someone other than ourselves. Therefore, it is only through someone else���s negligence, thoughtlessness or outright malice that we have walked into that lamppost left so carelessly by the side of the road for several decades.
After all, what country can call itself civilised if it forces its own citizens to watch where they are walking? While, at the same time, leaving rivers so carelessly flowing through its major cities for them to fall into? It is not just an accident waiting to happen; it is deliberate negligence, if not outright malice.
Not only that, the actions by manufacturers of consumer goods in previous decades must also be brought to account for the hurt and suffering they caused the innocent in those past decades of injustice. Take, for example, the case of Glans Vas Deferens, who through no fault of her own was sold a Slinky by a faceless, uncaring manufacturer. This despite the fact that her family lived in a bungalow. ���I will never ever get over the trauma and heartbreak that Slinky caused me,��� a tearful Vas Deferens said on the steps outside the courthouse. Speaking not long after she had been awarded ��100 million in compensation for her hurt and suffering caused by the immobile Slinky.
Not only that, Worcester City Council were, only last week, made to pay considerable damages to several people. All of whom had accidently got slightly damp when the City Council knowingly let the River Severn flow through their city. ���Such callous disregard for the dryness of the people of this country cannot go unpunished,��� the judge at the council���s trial said.
So maybe – at last – this country is getting the justice its people deserve.
