Elusive Justice

A friend remarked that she left legal practice because she felt disillusioned about this whole idea of justice. You'll also be surprised to know that a majority of my young students (ages 18-21) seem to strongly believe that our judicial system is corrupt. Of course I view the former statement with respect, coming from someone who was in the frontlines fighting the good fight. As for the latter view, I can't help but wonder what it was that gave such a bad impression to our youths.

Perhaps the powers that be should just review what happened in 1988. I believe our society is mature enough to accept the findings, whatever they may be. Faith in the judicial system has to be restored & the review may well be the first step towards it.

Maybe the next step is to make good on the "fight against corruption" promise by whomever it was who started it. Corruption is like cancer- it grows and becomes lethal. If checked early, we might just fight it and survive.