More On My Experiences.

Because like I've told people, our probate lawyer Karl Schettenhelm told me around the late 90s that he strongly supported my interest in the play the Merchant of Venice. He told me he was very enthused, and it seemed odd even at the time like it had some relation to the trust he was drawing up and how I should always be merciful even when others violated my rights, I thought even then. And then ironically the Al Pacino movie the Merchant of Venice came out in 2004, right when everything in my life took a terrible turn for injustice in my life it seemed. All starting in Sinai-Grace hospital it seemed. With the way I was being falsely accused of something, my name and reputation was being destroyed and horrible rumors were being spread about me it seemed just about everywhere, and the police were trying to take away my car even though I was a good driver with an valid license. Even when they knew what that would do to me. And even when they must have known what was going in Detroit and in my neighborhood at the time. Things that you would think would concern the police more than a weak, harmless handicapped man just trying to live his life, and do things like take a walk in the park when he felt down and eat at his favorite restaurant.

But when I saw the movie, both versions that I saw, around that time, I saw there was another message about mercy. Shown in how Portia and the duke use that word the first time they do to address Shylock. Begging him to show mercy, asking him how shall he hope for mercy giving none and telling him that in the course of justice we do pray for mercy. Both from the golden rule. But they also foreshadowed how the tables were turned on Shylock at the end of the trial. How he then became the defendant and not the prosecution. And the flip side of the golden rule he found out is that if don't show mercy to others you shouldn't expect it for yourself from the justice system. I even wondered back around 2000 if others saw that message. I wonder if they'll see it now. And I wonder if that has any meaning to my case.