Keep trial lawyers out of Congress

A letter was published Feb. 8 by a president of the Trial Lawyers Association, which extolled the wonderful work trial lawyers accomplish to help certain victims of unjust treatment by corporations, insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, etc.

That submitted letter was, in a word, superfluous; or put another way, overkill.

Trial lawyers are the bane of our once respected judicial system in America. Witness the ACLU, its corps of trial lawyers adroitly avoid public trials to pursue their poisonous anti-American agenda. The exorbitant settlements of billions of dollars fomented by trial lawyers indirectly cost citizens much more. Ex-Sen. John Edwards enriched himself by untold millions extracting huge settlement sums as a trial lawyer, thereby causing extensive harm to employees and the companies they worked for.

Admittedly, corporate skulduggery is a sad fact of life and penalties should be awarded when guilt is proven. But not to the monetary levels the trial lawyers have pushed it. Otherwise, future awards will be trillions, not billions.

It won't happen in my lifetime, but lawyers should not be allowed to run for Congress, most especially trial lawyers. Lawyers have twisted the U.S. Constitution into so many knots that Washington, Adams, Lincoln and our other great leaders would never even recognize it. Guess I'm now blacklisted if ever I need a lawyer.

F.E. Lind

Huntley