This mother in Saskatoon had apples stolen from her trees. She said in the story that her son cannot digest food easily, so she was planning on making applesauce with them, when someone came and cleaned her out. Luckily, there were some good hearted people who gave her not only apples, but other food, as well. …one could say that she was made whole.
That’s what Law was originally about–someone does something wrong to another and is made to do something for that person to make up for it–that’s what they called “making one whole” .
Now it seems the Law—looking at the person stealing as a corporation– is saying that the corporation had a right to take everything.
Or –she was at fault for not having a guard dog protect her assets.
Or –she should have had a hot fence up.
I’m thinking of corporate anti-union sentiment; of bankers/finance; of insurance (both health and home); of pretty much anything in this country where the less well-connected or less wealthy are not being treated in a just manner.
Our apples have been stolen and we haven’t enough folks with good hearts and enough resources themselves to come and make us whole again.