I just saw the stupidest incident that shouldn't have happened. A man went on vacation. His neighbor calls and tells him people are moving things out of his house. The man rushes home and finds strangers in his house, his property and all his furniture gone. He calls the police. The police say they can't do anything because the strangers have a deed showing the man had sold them his house. Adding insult to injury, the courts ruled in favor of the strangers, setting a new precedent for the success of identity theft on an the cruelest level. Someone can now legally steal your home and you have no recourse.
What should have happened was the people be held accountable for receiving stolen property since they, themselves, stated the man they met and purchased the house from was not the one suing them to get his property back. Documents and conversations showed the real owner was not in the country when the recipients claimed to meet with him. The property sale should have been overturned. The ones purchasing the stolen property should get their stuff out of the man's house and reimburse him for whatever personal property they can't return to him. They should be the ones filing a police report against the thief.
This country's justice system isn't really aimed at true justice. It has slowly been twisted to benefit the wealthy, devious, and money-making opportunists. You're the victim but you're treated like a criminal. You're left trying to prove who you are, in a world where people are faceless numbers with dollar signs attached. Your zipcode dictates your worth. I'm over half a century old and I've watched as it rapidly worsened over the years, even experienced it. I often have to wonder, is America truly the land of the free? I despise even having to consider that question.
Such a pity.