Yellow
I tend to agree to a point....but there is something even more ugly here to my mind.
These families are understandilby grief stricken. Emotionionally hollowed out, by the terrible turn of events. I would imagine that a sense of closure is not yet.
They want somebody, anybody, to DO something for them. What that thing is, is actually irrelevant.
Enter a lawyer, not the upstanding type, but the type who practicies hit-and-run litigation, both for the cash and the press.
He KNOWs all about the constitution, the laws, etc...but could give a god-damn less. But he is right there, in that families darkest hour, with all sorts of promises, and no-fees up front.
A Savior.
I went through this with my accident. The day after the wreck, I got a letter in the mail from an attorney.
The first line: "Now that you have been seriously injured in an automobile accident,....."
I wasnt seriously injured. Nobody was harmed at all. But this guy flipped open the morning paper, and had his secretary fire off a form letter.
Now lawyers do have a purpose, as the dance with the insurace company progressed, I was thinking of hiring one, in the end I did not have to.
I wish that there was more emphasis on the code of ethics that lawyers take when admitted to the bar.
Blatent publicity hounding and ambulance chasing gives the whole profession a bad name.
And results in crap like this.