9.6
I turn to the law part of Concerns of Deep History these two days, and found it quite confusing. According to the writer, courts of law in the U.S are more like a game between the defendants and the prosecutors who, in the light of law regulations and rules, play crafty tricks and ignore morality or conscience, especially the lawyers who care only about money. Even if there is unshakable evidence to testify the murder action, the judge can’t acknowledge the evidence to be qualified if it is obtained without legal proceedings. It made me remember a heated case recently in the U.S, the case of Casey Anthony who was accused of murdering her own daughter. She lied in front of the court; the dead body’s smell was found in her car; she even went to a party being happy and care-free after her daughter was dead; she could never explain why she never called the police after her daughter was dead. However, because of the lack of valid evidence, she was released in front of the whole America, leaving people shocked and irritated and more people questioning: where is the conscience of American law? Should we reevaluate our law system? However, as far as I am concerned, that is the price the American people have to pay for their possessing certain fundamental rights. The right to property, for instance, is of key importance. If you reach to my personal belongings or enter into my house without valid and legal permissions, you are violating my right. So, the Americans would rather be questioned about their conscience regarding the law than be expropriated the basic rights. Things are often paradoxical. The Fathers of the U.S would never have thought about the possibility that freedom, equality, or property right may be against human being’s conscience. Interesting.