CIVIL LAW IS A CUDGEL; SOMETIMES JUSTICE; SOMETIMES VENGEANCE

Civil law can be and often times is nothing more than a petty, financially well off individual getting payback with full legal impunity from the courts and the police. It is a disgustingly contemptible set of rules allowing one piece of shit individual to harass and eventually steal money from another. Why do you think that moral and ethical groups such as Mennonites avoid the courts ? The expression voting with your feet comes into play as they stay away from our judicial system like the plague. Generally speaking if you've been victimized and you haven't got bottomless pockets, then feel free to go to court and get victimized all over again.

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Lawsuit over nude photos seeks $900,000 from regional police". This story was in the Record last year in conjunction with criminal charges of Breach of Trust and Obstruction of Justice against Officer Knox of our Waterloo Regional Police. Now don't get me wrong but Officer Knox is a real piece of work. While on a call he took photos of a man sleeping in the nude in his own home and then shared them with a few select fellow officers. For his disgusting behaviour Officer Knox has been punished including losing his job and I believe being convicted on the two mentioned criminal charges. Two other officers were also implicated including one whose only sin was trying to get his brother officer off the hook.

So using civil law terminology yes you have a cause of action. Officer Knox took photos in a private residence of an individual sleeping in the nude and distributed them with other officers. My question is what difference does money now make in this case? The officer was charged, convicted and fired. Is this civil suit anything more than piling on? Is this civil suit just a legal method of harassing an already severely punished human being for their bad behaviour?