Many times the average person will have to attend court, for a traffic ticket, a licensing citation, and maybe a minor civil suit or a juvenile case pending against their child. And many times the average person is somewhat knowledgeable about the laws, policies and procedures of the local and or state legal system. But when it comes to knowing the laws that can actually help you, there is a price to pay for that knowledge.

The average working hand have not the resources, contacts, or money for lawyers that can truly offer them real good legal advice. Television lawyers are a dime a dozen as is retribution from accident and medical claims. These are also basic laws that the average person may have knowledge of. But there are laws on the books that benefit people of a higher class who basically has the money to pay.

In other words, if a lawyer knows the average hand's annual salary, they will give them average advice. This is because these are lawyers that only the average person can afford. If the lawyer knows the person is of a higher class and can pay more money, they give more and better advice. They reveal laws written on the books supposedly for everyone (except people who have not the money to pay) that can actual help them more. If the lawyer knows that the person is rich and can afford any price, again, the books are opened to an even better page.

The more money a person has, the deeper into the laws that actually benefit people the lawyer will go. Not because he knows any of the law, but because the money is there. For instance, there are laws written especially for the rich on how to keep their riches and laws that protect their riches from anyone, including creditors and the government. There are laws written in criminal law that would actually work for someone who has the money to make it work but would not work, or not suppose to work - based on a technicality - for those who have not the money.

When the term "knowledge is power" is blurted into the ears of society it is just a cloak for the real truth, which is that "money is power." A person can have all the education and knowledge in the world but if they have not the money, that education and knowledge is worthless. If only money can buy the best legal advice, how can the average person ever expect not to be ignorant of the law? Though the judicial system claims that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" how can they justify this ignorance on the behalf of the average person if there is never an effort by society to education the public?

Are there any government community programs that attempt to educate the community on the deepest benefits of the law? No. Are there any community courses or even universities that reveal the depths of the law to people who would not otherwise be able to afford that college? No. So how is the average person suppose to know the law when the system sets it aside for those with the money?

Does anyone realize that the average person is not actually required "by law" to pay taxes, such as federal, state, or social security taxes? And that they cannot be sent to jail if they do not? When a person is unemployed, do they pay taxes? No. Do they go to jail? No. So how can a person who does not pay taxes if they are employee face jail time if they do not pay? The reason people pay taxes is because the government takes the taxes before people can stop them, which is a form of a monocracy or a dictatorship like Sadam Hussein's ex regime.

The point is the average person is ignorant of the law because the government does not want the average person to know the law, unless they can pay. The American system is set up to protect the rich because the rich pay the most taxes. The richest lawyers get richer because they have the money to gain the knowledge and because they help the rich get richer. The not-so-rich lawyers gets more money from people who know not the law thus making the average person a servant to that lawyer, the judicial system, and the American class society.

Just another Afro observation into the world of American injustice.

© 2003 by C.R. Hamilton