The Legal System

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Let's say, a family member is in need of open heart surgery. Do you get out your tool chest, put them on the coffee table and begin? Do you take them to your general practitioner and expect that doctor to perform an outpatient open heart surgery? Who do you call? It ain't ghost busters I can tell you that. The legal system is something similar because you’re well being, your economic status and your very life is also, like open heart surgery, is on the line. 

The legal system, like the cardio system, is a very complex one that for a novice lays out a minefield of dangers that one not of the system cannot traverse on their own and even when seeking out assistance, who you choose can be just as dangerous and harmful, more so in some cases, gravely so including the option of death. 

If one of us, of the martial self-protection or even just an every day soul forced to defend and protect against violences, is thrust into the legal system under self-defense as a defense the minefield is being laid out at the moment the first responders arrive to begin interviews, investigations and interrogations where the negotiations between those first responders and you are heavily stacked against you regardless of the self-defense lessons you have received. 

Picture yourself visiting the zoo where you are standing outside of a cage with a very large and dangerous tiger or lion or other predator. The only shield you have against that predator is the cage they are in. You have read about them, you have watched programs and productions on the nature and life of those predators and you have learned a few things from other sources all claiming expertise. Do you assume your skills are such that you can walk up to that cage door, open the lock and step inside and literally face that big cat be it lion, tiger or other large predator and hope to survive? 

Listen, the legal system is a very complex machine with an input flu and an output flu with a vary large complex internal system that is closed to all those who have not taken up the sword that is the legal system as a profession. Even those who do take up that legal sword are aware that dependent on the very legal attack that their part of the system may not be adequate to defend and protect ergo they, if you are lucky, will recommend a professionally skilled legal person to take up your case - if you are lucky. 

No lessons, classes or other media claiming it has information of the legal system will get you through the mean machine that will chew you up and spit you out into the penal system faster than McDonald's can serve up your big breakfast. Even when you find a professional legal representative specializing you self-defense defense guarantee's the machine won't spit you out the other end in shambles, in jail and ruined for life. Note, 'for life' means - for your entire life until death do you part. 

The legal system is not about you, it is about the members of that system as to their status, their ability to dominate in the court and their manipulative ability to influence and cause others, think jurors, etc., to comply with their perceptions and beliefs and views of the laws involved so that - THEY WILL WIN.

When you enter the legal system it is all about the people in that system likened to a football team where their is the defense team facing off against the prosecutor's team and you are the football that is put into play. You hope your team, the defensive, wins but remember that the law, jurors and the judge are the arbitrators or referee's who decide in the end. 

The last thing you want to assume is that your Google-knowledge based understanding of the legal system just isn't going to do it for you. You should already know that such things are questionable even for representation who has completed a law degree, who has gained actual hands-on experience trying cases in the system and who understands such minute aspects of the law and legal system under the heading of "self-defense law" may not actually understand what it will take of and from you, and who actually even cares, your role in the defense of self-defense of the before, what you did during and the after that fills up your life the moment you apply your skills in self-protection. 

So, go ahead, get your brother-in-law to break out the old tool chest, jump up on that dining room table and tell him to get 'cracking open your chest' to repair your heart because hiring a cardiovascular surgeon who specialized in bypass surgery is just too damn expensive and hey, your bro-in-law just rebuilt that chevy 327 for you and did a bang up job, right? 

Very, very, very few from any source including in the lessons on the dojo floor over the last four decades of my personal experiences has even broached the subject of the law, the legal system and how to navigate and survive that minefield has ever spoken up and to such subjects so, even you your are successful with your skills to protect and defend against violence is your sensei going to come to your aid in the court of law for you? 

The legal system is tantamount to space travel in your car if you don't have the baking and support of a member of the space system, NASA, so why would you ask your bro-n-law, or your sensei, to perform surgery on you in the medical system? 

Something to think about...

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