Perhaps the most rewarding thing about practicing in this area of law is working with clients and activists and other attorneys who recognize this struggle is far more significant than merely foreclosure.
The rest of the world would do well to listen, but sadly too many are still stuck in a most elementary expression of contempt for the people who are suffering in this country. Elected and appointed leaders, judges and policymakers who fail to look beneath the surface. It’s a ruinous perspective they have and one that prolongs the suffering. We cannot win every heart or open every mind.
I thought of this as I read something that reminds us all of our responsibility:
But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and doesn’t sound the alarm to warn the people, he is responsible for their captivity. They will die in their sins, but I will hold the watchman responsible for their deaths.
Ezekial 33:6
Indeed, religious Americans are mostly Pharisees. We strain at gnats and swallow camels. It is shameful. We are the people found in Isaiah 1. We need to “remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice!”
Christians of all people are to obey the government that God gave them. Too often, we act as if we live in China and have no responsibilities in this self-government of ours. Ain’t so in God’s eyes. ” To whom much is given much is required.”
Misprision of felony – Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. 18 USC § 4
If you don’t have the resources to prosecute, convict, and jail, then what do you have the resources to do? You should do that. What you do may not sound like much, but if in the next 45 days you can convince 3 people of the above points and help them do the same in the following 45 days then at the end of 2 years you will have effected over 64 million people.