No Justice!

There is no Justice! My job is one that very much depends on the decions of others. More so than others I think. My job is defined by my clients decisions. To take or not take a drugscreen, to report their address or not report it, to beat your kids or not beat your kids... and so on and so forth. Also, unfortunatly, it depends (in a very fundamental manner) on the decision of a juvenile court judge. Our judge makes a decision based on the convincing done by the lawyers involved. The problem with all of this is that the whole system is made of people who have their own agendas. The lawyers, of course, want their clients to win. Well, lets just assume for the sake of arguement that lawyers want their clients to win. That agenda is known. The unknown, the wild card, is what is going on in the mind of the judge. What is this person thinking? What is his/her angle? Why does this person hear some things and not others? Why is some evidence more weighty than other evidence? In this system there can be no justice, only prejudice and error. But then again I have always been of the opinion that the system is fundamentally flawed to say the least. It is my job to fight the system for my clients. There can be no hope or good come from the system or those who operate it. The only hope for any of us, in my child welfare system or out of it, is in individuals. The trouble is finding a real live individual.