Human Justice by Human and the Lights
What’s It About?
Human Justice tells the compelling true story of a human rights lawyer’s final trial in a 15-year profession spent serving to folks residing on the margins implement civil rights and anti-discrimination legal guidelines.
It’s an outdated adage that the one ones who actually win lawsuits are the attorneys.
Perhaps it’s as a result of they’re a part of a system tilted extra towards rewarding the ancillary individuals, employed palms and company pursuits than the weak, harmless victims who’re smothered by the method.
That’s not misplaced on the attorneys, a few of whom would possibly take a look at themselves within the mirror and say they aren’t going to take it anymore.
One such lawyer, a human rights lawyer, at present goes by the identify of Human and the Lights. He’s additionally an writer of a brand new e-book known as Human Justice — and on the very starting he acknowledges his stance.
He explains within the e-book’s prologue that he believed a selected consumer was a liar. The human worth of honesty ought to have compelled him to withdraw as her lawyer. As an alternative, he settles the case and takes 40 p.c of the award, plus $4,000 in prices.
As he says, “I’m solely human.”
He says it apologetically, not proudly. However that phrase will quickly tackle one other that means in the middle of this legal professional’s narrative.
A Revolutionary Strategy
“After Karen’s case, I attempted to give up lawyering. Failing that, I attempted one thing new and, because it seems, revolutionary. I began treating potential new shoppers like people.”
It was step one in remodeling his life.
For Human did certainly tackle one other case, which is documented in nice element in Human Justice. It’s the matter of a employee at a paper firm who reviews a possible hazard, sees that nothing is finished about it, after which suffers a critical harm on account of the corporate’s neglect.
Then the person, Ted Brown, who turns into a thorn within the firm’s facet, is wrongfully terminated by the corporate, claiming, amongst different issues, he was not exhibiting up for work on sure days — days that, because it seems, the corporate was not even open.
It was simply one other of instance of what the writer’s conscience was telling him to do.
“This was my final trial earlier than leaving regulation to give attention to main with my coronary heart,” writes the writer. “I made a decision in the course of the trial that it will be my final case, as I didn’t wish to put one other human via the abuse the company facet piled on my consumer.”
“Most of my shoppers,” writes Human, “had been financially poor. Combating for poor of us harmed by company inequity opened my eyes to a grim actuality: We reside in an age managed by and for companies … And the only criterion of company decision-making is maximizing revenue. That’s it.”
Breaking Free from Company Chains
Human quits the sector of regulation. So now what?
He dedicates a lot of the e-book to describing the inequities of company justice, whose foundation is in greenback indicators and sometimes on the disregard for the individual searching for justice within the first place. He does so from his expertise within the authorized system and the intricacies he uncovered from a particular case, in addition to from his common philosophical beliefs, which compelled him to stroll away.
However our society is wrapped up within the company manner of issues, and it’s arduous for these sucked into it to interrupt free – with Human being an exception.
Maybe the character Morpheus, from the present “The Matrix,” says it finest. And our writer quotes him: “Most of those persons are not able to be unplugged. And plenty of of them are so inured, so hopelessly depending on the system, that they may combat to guard it.”
Human calls corporatism a virus — one which causes probably good folks to malfunction.
The writer wish to consider that human values like empathy, altruism, honesty and compassion — the concept of main with our hearts — can overcome any poison of the company world.
In Human Justice, readers might be intrigued with the account of a human-rights court docket case and on the similar time be introduced with a plethora of philosophical nuggets reflecting one man’s tackle our world and the wrestle of the system vs. the true individuals who outline it.
But in the long run, his message is straightforward:
“Company values lead some people to consider that they’re higher and extra vital than others. They’re mistaken. We’re all human. We’re all fabricated from the identical stuff.”
About Human and the Lights:
Human is a citizen of the multiverse. He takes pleasure and life and loves being out in nature. He gazes on the stars and sees himself dancing with them.
Publish Date: April 13, 2024
Style: Nonfiction
Creator: Human and the Lights
Web page Depend: 182 pages
Writer: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 9781662947162