Due Process

There is a political situation brewing into our lives at present and giving us all cause to debate amongst ourselves. Ought one to believe that "due process" comes before action to stop a problem that has presented obvious and factual symptoms or does one wait until every letter of the law has been ascertained and processed. I think the former. Why? While "due process" is perhaps the correct way of handling such a situation, very often, it, rather than the crime, becomes the monster that encompasses so many aspects that years go by in the massive realm of legal wranglings and tangents that the law in the end, becomes more important than its cause for being there. You have to ask, is  justice served or is it merely servitude to the law.  It's not uncommon to sit in a courtroom and feel frustrated while lawyers give excuses week after week for delaying a sentence or hearing because the charged is "out of town", "ill" , has an "urgent family matter" or some other inane excuse of which the details are left mysterious and no one seems interested in taking up the court's time and expense to present proof. The judge usually raps his or her gavel without question, and the matter is put on to another date. This happens time and time again if you have ever sat in a courtroom long enough to witness the fiasco. One can't fairly complain because this is part of any citizen's rights even though suspicion of the delay tactic being used improperly must remain unspoken. To me, it jars the court's credibility. In the matter of which I speak, the longer a delay goes on, the more complications it takes on. The effect is like a great, sticky gob of snowball rolling along as bits and pieces, in this case, of political machinery and machinations that are continuously tossed into its path, are absorbed into the situation as it  grinds along. The media of course is at the back, pushing, having nothing more exciting to report than fashion shows and book festivals. What is at stake, is money, of course, and that always over-rides everything else especially when it is public money. We elect people to handle the sizeable amount of money that we pay every year into the public coffer and we expect, just as we do at home, it to be  wisely spent. A huge amount of it by the elected, is not. No one can dispute that certain luxuries are included in the mix. Entertainments and celebrations, even holidays seem to be part of the necessary life-style of those we see blethering on Parliament Fridays when the show is on and the press allows us to sit in on the fun. Those whom we elect for the most part do their work well and faithfully but the same as at home, budgets have to be adhered to, and the rules around it must be observed diligently. That money from you and I is a contribution from our daily lives. You can't blame the servant, you must see the master as responsible. And if what you see is wrong, "due process" or not, it is simply wrong and something should be and has to be done immediately to correct the matter. The haggling and nagging details can be worked out later by those in the business of nit picking. I am for seeing logical justice done now and ironing out the wrinkles later.