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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Perverted Progress story poem which became a rant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bards are dead and none recall<br> the glory days, when every hall.<br>Would echo to their epic tales <br>and hear the news they would regale</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ancient bards were men of law<br>They were welcomed at every door.<br>A peasant’s cot or chieftains hall <br>it made no difference at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were accorded great respect<br> as arbiters as you’d expect.<br>These minstrels wise in Brehon Law <br>and holders of the magic lore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All men were treated equally<br> and their decisions seen to be<br> delivered so impartially. <br>The way that justice ought to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No man could buy their loyalty<br>They were all that they claimed to be.<br>Men of prodigious memory <br>who could judge - impartially.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rights and wrongs of any cause<br> and had the power to enforce.<br> Such was the power of Brehon law <br>which ruled the land in days of yore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But time moves on and all things change<br> invaders come and re arrange. <br>The world to suit their foreign ways.<br>The bards refused to sing their praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they were hunted down and killed<br>This left a gap which would be filled <br>by lawyers of a different sort.<br>Corrupt men who could be bought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By those who had he greatest wealth<br>Well versed in lies deceit and stealth<br>Although professing probity.<br>Behind the scenes where none could see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These lawyers aided thievery<br> and favoured those of high degree.<br>Against the poor but honest men<br> who had their lands and goods taken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To fill the coffers of the rich <br>whose greed consumed them like an itch.<br> Unsatisfied they craved for more <br> and so perverted every law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Judgement was now a mockery <br>which could be purchased for a fee. <br>A price the poor man could not raise<br> and thus he always lost his case.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Things are much the same today <br>unless you can afford to pay.<br>Outrageous fees which lawyers ask<br>You face an impossible task.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> You wont get justice you’ll get law.<br> That’s what you pay your lawyer for. <br>To find some loophole you can use <br>so that you need not pay your dues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Avoiding any punishment <br>however evil your intent<br>He’ll find some technicality <br>which he’ll invoke to set you free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The golden days when laws applied <br>to all men equally were set aside. <br>So justice wears a blindfold now<br> that’s fastened tightly round her brow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lawyers dare not let her see.<br> How they have made a mockery.<br>Twisting the meaning of the law<br>and making use of every flaw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and every legal argument<br> to thwart the laws avowed intent.<br> To protect the innocent.<br>Another failed experiment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have to find a better way <br>which does not favour those who pay.<br>As it was in days of yore<br> when no man was above the law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then justice was not bought or sold<br> the bards had small regard for gold.<br>They were renowned for honesty<br> dispensing justice without fee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Supported by all honest men<br>we shall not see their like again.<br>Until the people indicate<br> they will no longer tolerate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This rank injustice any more. <br>Demand we overhaul the law.<br>Rewrite them so they will apply<br> to everybody equally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Justice must be seen to be done<br> to anyone and everyone.<br>Impartially as it should be <br>and truly independently.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Alas the bards are dead<br> and we have chaos in their stead.<br>Today the world is ruled by greed.<br>Me first, me first the only creed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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 the glory days, when every hall.
Would echo to their epic tales 
and hear the news they would regale

The ancient bards were men of law
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A peasant’s cot or chieftains hall 
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