These rotten judges are not working hard enough and they are expensive and don't work at a desired pace. So the minister wants to take control of them, just like has been done to school teachers who were generally considered to be idle layabouts by the new regime leaders and so they devised a system so fiendishly complicated to implement and administer that five teachers [now renamed learning mediators] are leaving the trade for every new recruit.
In their legal world the jurists are crying foul.
Now from what one gathers this is what the jurists are whingeing about. Some subversive bureaucrats somewhere in the Justice, law or whatever department have decided that all these judges and magistrates and whatever else falls under the 'justice' system heading are not working hard enough, taking too long to do whatever they do and they must be hustled along by the imposition of the kind of strict criteria carefully ducked by crony town managers and other friends of the rich and newly powerful.
These legal chaps are after all, all paid by the State and they do not seem to be accountable to the people in any way so the govt came up with an amendment to the system. An accountability chain would be created to link the executive to the Judiciary with the executive having override powers of some undefined kind [well they're vague to me anyway.]. The precise workings of this organisational restructure are arcane and wonderfully hazy presumably because we the public are considered too stupid to be expected to take any interest in something that may change our lives: a good fuck is generally more pleasant and immediate.
Now what we could argue is that all we have here is a simple turf war. One group of people have trampled into another's domain. And will inevitably change it utterly while all the time crying: 'that was not what they meant at all-not what they meant at all.' [With apologies to whoever wrote the now mangled original]
But that is what will happen. Cost cutting and other constraints resulting from freedom motivate the changes to the system. Today people are free to move around and commit a crime-that is their right. In the past they may have wished to commit a crime but freedom of movement was so restricted that the illusion of crime free places was created.
That illusion is gone. There are more criminals today than the system designed for a more leisurely era can cope with. The whip must be cracked -Zese people must conform to ze new social order-away with sinful tea breaks und gin wiiz tonics.
I have an old buddy who now hangs out in the British [Pomeranian] national health service. He was a good and experienced surgeon here in his field and he went off to a larney hospital system over there-he lasted about two years. They moved him on-too slow -he was only allotted four minutes per patient and he was taking ten, fifteen whatever doing his job properly and thoroughly. That wasn't good enough according to some work study specialist somewhere and he had to go.
Now he is one of ten thousand partially employed foreign doctors in London alone, who practice 'locum' work -the business has become so stressfull it seems there is a shortage of local recruits-How do you diagnose some aging human with minimal education and a vaguely defined pain somewhere-in four minutes-and sleep at night on your Hippocratic oath-but that's how it works and no one local wants to do the job anymore so they rely on foreigners.
The Pom Schooling system is the same, so full of admin there's no time for lessons so poor kids are worse and worse off.
The rougher parts of the system depends on foreign teachers who are too blown away by the 'huge' salaries to notice that the work conditions are more abusive than those condemned by Charles Dickens. A recent state sponsored report suggested that within a few years we will start depending on foreign teachers to keep our system going and there will be hardly any local teachers between thirty and forty years of age.
And that is the most important reason why the Judges are angry about the proposals. This is a cosy job. You listen to evidence, you potter off to your chambers. You poddle through heaps of law books, demand evaluations from young acolytes, guzzle sherry with 'Chums' at the Judges club, wherever it is, and ponder the conclusions you have to make -maybe even throw a little I Ching to tip the scales in really complex assessments-The government doesn't think you should have this time it's too slow and there are too many crimes.
We did have this speeded up thing before-the two minute trial was a daily feature of our lives and perhaps the government is really pissed off that there are so many of the present main jurist dudes who were hot young two minute milers back then and they seem to be slacking now; when they were dead keen on being nasty before. Maybe?
Nonetheless the two-minute trial was a daily ritual- Hundreds daily, like a sausage making machine. A man could be picked up off the pavement of the home where he worked. Perhaps he was pruning the roses at the pavement's edge. His jacket containing his compulsory 'dompas' was hanging on the garden gate and he would be arrested for not being in possession of this thing and no protestation would avail. He would disappear into the system, be brutalised, have a two minute trial be found guilty be 'endorsed' out of the city, and still wouldn't have his jacket-often he vanished forever leaving puzzled, confused and terrified employers to rail about the unreliability of the working classs.
That was what happened when the politicians controlled the judges before.
Last year Bob [the Roz] Mugabe became enraged that his urban 'subjects' were choosing a different party to his -that they were not happy with his 'rule' he demonstrated to them that they were pitiful 'subjects' and he their King-He destroyed the homes of nearly a million people although today you wouldn't know that; we're all pretending it never happened. There is no longer a credible judicial system in Zimbabwe, and sensible tourists avoid the place. That is what happens when politicians control the judges.
So the two aging Lefties who have so surprisingly come out in opposition to this change in the Constitution have caused some consternation, and the Rand's weakening for the first time in an age could be only co-incidentally associated with a touch of concern at the margins, that the freedom of the judiciary to ponder their cases is at the heart of the freedom we enjoy today and which is less than we had a decade ago and perhaps more than we will have in a decade's time.
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