Fiat justitia, ruat caelum (Let justice be done though the heavens fall).
To me what sets a man apart from the rest of the animal kingdom is his need for justice. If you're somebody who can still remain cold and apathetic when an injustice was being done to your neighbor, then you are not human. Your place is with the chickens and goats who would hardly show any misgivings to the farmer when one of them was being led to slaughter.
People demanding and crying for justice are all too common. The problem is, justice is not something that can be handed to anybody in a silver platter. Even if you are a very influential person, you will still have to go through the legal process before you will be given the "pound of flesh" you are demanding from whoever owed it to you. You will still have to be absent from work to attend the hearings, motivate your witness and the public prosecutor behind it and yes, spend some money to help speed up the process.
The quest for justice is not only expensive - it is also tedious, stressful and sometimes frustrating. All too often, those who have been initially screaming for justice will soon become silent, discouraged, disillusioned and frustrated once they realized the resources (time, money and energy) required from them as complainants/petitioners. The lazy and the unprincipled people will simply say: "Let's just hand it to God. God will deliver justice sooner or later (From the Tagalogs: Ipagpasa dyos na lang natin. Dyos na ang bahala sa kanila). And as they say in our place, "Gabaan ra na!".
I don't believe God is very much interested in justice. Yes, there were some areas in the Old Testament where rudimentary comments of justice were offered (An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth). But Jesus never encouraged the practice of justice in his sermons. In fact, Jesus, it seems to me is anti-justice: "When somebody strikes you in the right check, turn the other also. When somebody forces you to walk one mile..., etc.". Does that mean, Mr. Jesus, that when somebody raped your wife, you will offer him your daughter to be raped also? Oh, I see you are limiting it only to cheeks and walking and the very mundane stuff, don't you? But you see, Mr. JC, the pronouncements in law and justice must necessarily extend to the the whole gamut of human intercourse. It's like math, if 1 + 1 = 2, then 1 Billion + 1 Billion must be 2 Billion, right? It can't be otherwise just because the magnitude is different. Truth or justice is absolute in scale - it applies to all, otherwise none at all! So much for your divine justice.
If you want to get justice, you have to do your fair share. You just can't leave the prosecution efforts to God or the fiscal/state. Our justice system do not work that way - this is not the USA!
Some people may think that the time and money I spent in supporting cases concerning employees or relatives are wasted when we can just get around with the free services of the fiscal or if you are the defendant, the public attorneys office. Well, I might as well say that the money I spent on the purchase of my vehicles are being wasted. I can live by simply walking or riding on a jeep or taxi - but not without the justice I, or somebody close to me, deserve.
Give me justice or give me death! I forgot who said that, but that is closer to my personal sentiments.
