One of the ongoing theme of our writing has been the breaking down of the myth that reason is synonymous of democracy. Democracy is a never ending individual and collective effort to make people more intelligent and be free from slavery, poverty and ignorance. Reason is not democracy, yet we have a Free Market society based on the rational choices of people only to find out that our free markets are a gambling casinos. Yesterday, we pointed out our bosses' Free Market mentality of having our experts fixing everything versus the urgency to have more common sense and heart in our economic relationships.

Today, I find very perspective the words of Joe Berardino, CEO of Arthur Andersen & Co. "The current financial reporting system was created in the 1930s for the industrial age... There were no derivatives... no instant stock quotes or mutual funds... and no Lou Dobbs or CNBC." In practice, Joe Berardino debunks our current financial state of affairs characterized by our scientific financial derivatives, brainwashing media, and our instant reporting of the stock market.

I have been emphasizing how Tort Reform have been destroying our democracy by putting corporations' profits before people's lives, and how we are regaining our freedom little by little by our individual efforts.

Tort Reform have skewed further our justice system and that is why we cannot trust our own lawyers anymore as these lawyers are more interested in making money rather than providing justice services. In the Saskatchewan Scandal of the Century we have defense lawyer Ed Holgate who withdrew his services from his clients after he withheld important discovery information from his clients for some six years. And it was resounding to know that for the first time in Canada after six years, the Supreme Court of British Columbia awarded punitive damages to the wrongly dismissed Donald Marlowe who represented himself in court without the assistance of a defense lawyer.

Justice is in our people's hands, we cannot trust our experts, we can only trust our hearts and hope that our judges continue to do their just work of putting people's lives before the vested interests of the Few and Privileged, that is corporations and governments.

References

Pertinent articles in Ensign

Washington Post Journalist Richard Cohen: Free Market, Enron and the President's Friends, by Mario deSantis, December 4, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis498/cohen.html

Auditor blames the rules, by Deepa Babington, Reuters News Agency, December 5, 2001, The Globe and Mail

The Fifth Estate: Scandal of the Century, by Mario deSantis, November 29, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis274/FifthEstate.html

Saskatchewan Lawyer Ed Holgate, Injusticebusters, http://injusticebusters.com/index.htm/Holgate.htm

At last people's justice against the abuses of corporations: BC court awards $20,000 in punitive damages to employee Donald Marlowe, by Mario deSantis, December 3, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis497/punitive.html