Begrudged Judges

If lawyers simply wanted only to litigate, it seems they should stay lawyers. Aspirations for a judgeship you would think carry notions of a higher stature. Ethics, morality, philosophy, and leadership all come to mind. These things don't come to mind when thinking about attorneys. In fact there have been many a joke about lawyers at the bottom of the ocean. In many foreign countries attorneys are in the minority in government, because they believe it does not take a lawyer to be a leader. As many of our Supreme Court Justices have stated, "We decide based on the existing laws." That doesn't seem so difficult, looking up a precedent in a law library rather than actually thinking about a situation. Leaders on the other hand must have the intellectual capability to accommodate new issues and find possible solutions based on things other than the law. If they did only that then they would be only lawyers, not leaders. Leaders do more. To lead is to have a philosophy, an education, and personal experiences that mold a point of view. For the educators at hand, schooling is teaching a set of rules to keep people from making mistakes. Education is experiencing something, so you learn from your mistakes. I have learned throughout life there is no one you can listen to other than yourself. Anytime anyone has attempted to give me advice, it has always been the wrong solution. Leaders who attempt to dictate and legislate based on a hypothetical set of rules, the law, miss the point all together. People forget that the laws were made for us. They are meant to protect and support our people as a nation. They are not meant to be a vague and distant doctrine that a group of religious/right politicians deem appropriate for the American people. Every time I hear Bill O'Reilly talk on television, he reminds me of this kind of person, a soap box shouter, a disconnected yet passionate keeper of that faith with no real life. What is his philosophy? What does he really believe in? To know these things is to have lived a real life, not a privileged, spoon fed, trust-allotted masquerade. Are people that suffer and want more real than those who don't? I believe so. If you have been given life on a silver platter, of what consequence is it to you? If you have wanted for life, then it means something to you. It is time for these political types to be voted out of office with hopes of replacing them with real leaders, people who have something at stake other than making a buck from the law.