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Our federal German judiciary is fundamentally lacking in democratic calibration, but at least it has a very remarkable interpretation of law, according to my layman's observation from the last few decades.
On the one hand, far too many windy lawyers waste their time in order to saturate our judicial system with countless and completely useless warnings and lawsuits, and on the other hand, courts far too often decide in the interests of the perpetrators, as is currently the case again in a lawsuit against the proven frauds of the automotive industry can be seen.
In addition, our prisons are filled with a very specific clientele and not, as one might assume, the inmates roughly reflect our population on average. On their own, these observations certainly do not represent a trend, but taken as a whole, it is reasonable to assume that our justice system is flawed.
And so one could think about what could be the reason for this. I strongly suspect that after 1945 people completely forgot to reorganize the judiciary, among other things. The same prosecutors and judges who were successful before 1945 remained so after 1945; few exceptions prove the rule.
And when people slowly began to think about the consequences of missing denazification, reunification came and they took over these colleagues from the next unjust state. This time, too, it is said to have happened that the regime's very popular judges and public prosecutors simply became even more successful lawyers.
And so little has been heard of mucking out at the relevant universities that one could also ask oneself whether a basic understanding of democracy was made mandatory there at all.
To make matters worse, the decades-long lack of suitable law students has meant that one could not or did not want to do without any graduates from our law schools, even if they very openly and very up-to-date do not stand on the ground of our free-democratic basic order. And if such graduates already have a criminal streak, one can assume that they are fundamentally criminally inclined, which would make them useless for any judiciary.
And so it really shouldn't come as a surprise when judgments are made that hardly any innocent citizen can understand - but unfortunately not for lack of their own understanding. From the citizens' point of view, there is simply a lack of correct adjustment in the interpretation of our common legal system. And this understanding of the law should be closer to the citizens than to the government and, in particular, should serve to protect victims rather than offenders.
So it looks like you can do better in court with more money and more influence than without. And if you are convicted, it is your own wealth or that of your relatives that largely determines the sentence. One could certainly speak of an indulgence justice.
And so we citizens have to assume that from a certain level of prominence or a certain level of wealth, we are above German law and order. And if you don't have all of this, you're well advised to get on well with such "superhumans" — it should be understandable to everyone that our democracy falls by the wayside!
