Lazy Sunday Afternoon

2 statements by RANDY DAVID (Sunday Star, 16 March 2008) caught my eye. It is from an article titled " When modern institutions work", illustrating how a fast-rising Democrat and potential presidential nominee Elliot Spitzer being brought crashing down to earth due to a sex scandal exposed no less by the banking system, the internal revenue office, the FBI and the courts.

"Institutions are the evolutionary achievements of society, the means by which stable collective life is assured. They begin to malfunction when they get corrupted, when they allow themselves to become the extension of personal power."

"The legal system is represented in the form of a blindfolded lady holding the scale of justice. The law weights the evidence, but is blind to the social standing or power of those appearing before it".

Democracy may have prevailed in the 12th GE, however, our judicial system, as evidenced by the shambolic revelations in the Lingam Royal Commision hearing, remains crippled and beholden to executive powers and manipulation by big names. Lets see if the wind of change will blow through the courts as well.