What if the LAW was the LAW?

and not some individuals opinion of what it is!

I am often exhausted trying to keep up with the legal issues of copyright, plaigarism, fair use, service agreements, terms and conditions... and all the various expert interpretations of the law... because they are all just that... interpretations!

Have you noticed how lawyers never seem to give you a de facto answer in most advices... is it to protect their revenue source, their on going billing engine?... i think it could be just that... because, if there were definitive answers to the law then one could just simply have a database, matching subject to answer and... 'Bob's not your Uncle'... problem solved... he is your Aunt!

Simple... and in the enlightened age of the Internet, one could just go to a website, enter the question needing clarity on the law and out pops a definitive answer... just for a few cents or better still a free public service.

Yes, there are some so called free services you can use, but they generally limit you to a simple question and answer... promoting that you will need to engage an attorney (of theirs generally) and pay a lot more money to get a more comprehensive (read expensive) answer. And if you do just that and ask the attorney for a definitive answer, he/she will invariably say "well, that is my opinion".

Unfortunately, if you act on his advice and end up in a court of law, your justice will depend not on his opinion but on the 'opinion' of someone completely different!!! .... what a joke!... unfortunately in most cases it is not a funny joke!

So what is the problem? Well most friendly lawyers... there are some... will tell you that it is because the law is so badly written... and because the process 'we' (who?) have adopted is to allow the changes to fix the badly written law of the first instance, forming a chain of modifications that take a team of agile and intelligent minds to unscramble and try and make some sense of... and then present that opinion to a wise old person to give their opinion about their interpretation... convoluted?... you bet!

This is, of course, further complicated by another team of agile and intelligent minds trying to find an opposite opinion that is also believable... in order to present same to the same wise old person, to get agreement on their interpretation!

And all of this process has to be paid for by the poor innocents who are caught up in this grandiose game of 'Find the flaw in the Law'.

Well to hell with paying for the mistakes of someone else who was already paid (taxes) by us to define the law correctly in the first instance.

My naive mind tells me, lets scrap all those laws that can't be clearly understood by reading a couple of clearly understandable sentences and have them rewritten by someone who does understand what they are doing and can clearly communicate what should or should not be done in reference to that law.

Do away with precedence and the need to search for precedent and the debate this lengthy and costly (to you again) procedure of other formed opinions by other wise old souls!

Laws from the dark ages should automatically be scrapped and rewritten... as our society and norms and language has changed considerably since the time they were first written.

Why won't this happen unless there is a miracle?... because the industry that thrives on this almost deliberate travesty of justice is the justice industry itself... it is much too profitable to even think of simplifying the law and lose it's carefully crafted and protected revenue streams... just like the power industry won't allow anyone to easily take their market away in order to have a healthier planet to live in!

So, if i end up in court or just disappear after this article... please, someone pass on this message ... on and on and on... and on and on... after all this is one of the benefits of the net, isn't it... free speech!... hmmm... until someone with a lot to lose doesn't like what you say and asks a lawyer to give an opinion and...

"oh no... not again"... that person who penned the defense of 'but don't spill a single drop of blood' now has a lot of blood on their hands!