Dear Editor:
If your doctor prescribed a potion that almost killed you, you could sue them.
If your surgeon removed your left testicle instead of the right one, you could sue them.
If your lawyer advised you to commit suicide because all was lost, you could sue them.
If your trusted mechanic forgot to add brake fluid to your brake job, you could sue them.
If your favorite grocery store sold you some lettuce that had already been recalled provincially and nationally, you could sue them.
And finally, if your local newspaper printed untruths about you and then admitted it, yes, you could sue them too.
So can someone out there explain to me, why is it that no matter what decisions and law they lay down, no matter what damage and mayhem and stress they subject the public too, why in God’s name are they not culpable or answerable for their actions and decisions? I am of course referring to our supposedly “learned friends,” our illustrious federal and provincial judges!
Why are they constantly allowed to render decisions that continually and outrageously favour the perps?
Why are their decisions not the subject of instant judicial and/or public review, and even when yet another staggering unbelievable decision is brought down and acted upon, why isn’t it questioned and answered instantly by the attorney general and his provincial counterpart?
Why aren’t judges subject to incompetence tests? Why cant we fire them? Why can’t/won’t judges freely criticize each other’s poor decisions, and why are they all equally infected by having lots of brains but no sense?
Far too many poor decisions are being made by this club of legal beavers and yet they are still allowed to go on unchallenged or questioned by those in charge of the public interest.
If anyone out there questions any of this, just take a look at the Okanagan judicial love affair that they have had with Ronald Arthur Teneycke, the Okanagan Falls/Oliver monster, who even now is still able to create fear in the community from his so called maximum security prison cell.
The judicial systems is failing us all, of that there is no doubt.
Don Smithyman,
Oliver
