Perhaps the worst of Pennsylvania's notoriously bad courts is the Commonwealth Court. A recent incident reminded us how the Pennsylvania court system is a private club. It's open only to the wealthy and the big corporations. Ordinary citizens are priced out of the justice market. Ordinary citizens must choose between justice and heating oil, between their legal rights and their medication. All Pennsylvania's courts are a disgrace, but the Commonwealth Court is the worst. It's a business for judges and lawyers. It has nothing to do with what's right, what's fair or what's legal. The Commonwealth Court is a kind of high-priced flea market where lawyers get rich and the citizens get screwed. A court system is supposed to be a servant of the ordinary people. The courts are supposed to exist in order to serve the citizens, you and me. It's not that way in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, the courts are for the lawyers. The courts are all but closed to the people. Citizens are simply fodder, pieces to be jockeyed around so that lawyers can make a lot of money. Thomas Jefferson had the right idea. Lawyers should be anathema. Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court is supposed to hear cases which involve the state government and anybody who's rich enough to defend his/her rights with sacks of silver. The Commonwealth Court is so contrived that an ordinary citizen can't be heard. An ordinary citizen is simply denied justice at the courthouse door. Regardless of the facts or the legal situation, the citizen has to rent a prostitute, a lawyer, to be his/her mouthpiece. That's not what the courts are supposed to be. The courts are supposed to be a forum for citizens to obtain justice. The Commonwealth Court cares for form over substance; are the paragraphs in the "right" order, were the right magic words chanted in the right sequence. The judges are as lazy and pompous as they were in the English Star Chamber. These folks are bums in frocks. Come with cash in your hands, or you don't deserve an audience. The ideas of justice and fairness are foreign to the Pennsylvania court system, especially to the drones of the Commonwealth Court. They are openly hostile to the citizens of the state. Of all the reasons to avoid Pennsylvania (and there are plenty of them), the court system is one of the biggest. The Commonwealth Court is perhaps the worst in the state. It sells "justice" to the wealthy, to big corporations and to state flunkies. You, me and the ordinary people are out in the cold. People wonder why so many Pennsylvanians take matters into their own hands. It's because the Pennsylvania courts are a horse and pony show for the Duke of Dollars. Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "Harrisburg was notoriously the most corrupt state government in the nation" Edmund Morris in Theodore Rex You are welcome to use or republish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the New and Interesting Items Menu. Return to the Judges Who Shouldn't Be Menu. Return to the Main Menu. Go to our site's Search Engine Send us Your Comments or Input.