The violence implicit in these marijuana lawsuits is much on my mind today. On one level it can be interpreted as two couples (The Scotts and the Nolans) who choose to gang together in an act of public vengeance against a young woman (Jenny Rice) so the entire community gets to witness it. Apparently, the litigants would punish her for the transgression of exploring a livelihood about which they hold a different moral opinion. Yes, certainly, they view their expensive pursuit of punishment as 100% legal. But legality has its limits, and their action is more realistically viewed as unethical, and a very public boondoggle that utterly fails to convince anyone of their own over-inflated sense of being the persecuted. While litigation is supposed to suggest that the couples might conceivably be viewed as the victims here, the Scotts and the Nolans claim for either justice or victimhood seems credible only in an alternate universe. Their brand of justice is so absurdly vindictive and mean-spirited in its ferocity that the community can only react to them as people we all better avoid for fear of potential reprisal. Up here in the bleachers, I watch the drama unfold and predict that things will likely end more poorly for them than for her. She has already emerged as a rallying point for the community. By contrast, they have shown themselves to be some of those people who hire lawyers to exact revenge, and in the process, proactively rip apart the empathetic fabric of our small community.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:51:03 +0000
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