Karma is free

Karma (Sanskrit) or kamma (burn) in Buddhism refers to the ethical natural law of cause and effect. Simply put, according to this doctrine, selfish action causes suffering, while unselfish action brings happiness. From a Buddhist perspective, karma does not mean "fate", but can be translated as "action" or "cause and effect".

So much for the classical beginning of the definition of something that will run like a red thread throughout this post of mine. No, don't worry, it won't be "spiritual".

After #JH's (Dr. Hustá's) last speech at the court hearing on 2/11/2021, leading to an empty court bench and its two chairs and ending with her well-known refrain "in the name of the republic", we are in a cafe "Circus Café", located "a stone's throw" from the justice factory in Mičánky and with a name so characteristic of the events we just experienced, we were licking their fresh wounds. In the pleasant family atmosphere of this cafe, between sips of delicious cappuccino and bites of tasty "something" from the owner's home kitchen, we discussed our next plans and evaluated our next options. Somewhere here, between bites of this delicious bubbly, accompanied by my sister's stories of solving similar problems for her clients, I finally understood the content of the sentences she had been trying to tell me since the beginning of our struggle with these "windmills":

"You mustn't try to take revenge on them - after what I've seen and experienced here, it will only drain your energy unnecessarily. They count on it. And one day it will kill you. On the contrary, try to have fun with it".

Have fun? But what? That's masochism at its purest, isn't it?

I think that then, for the first time, in the framework of our coffee shop banter, the idea was born that we will probably lose all our disputes with Radio ГA / ГA anyway, and that it really isn't about justice anymore. It will be needed just to want to persevere and be honoured to finish this game according to their rules.

I wonder in vain when exactly I adopted this style of their "personal" struggle, when I stopped caring in what light and in what colours my former "alma mater" will be portrayed and how much dirty laundry I am willing to air about its God?

But more on that later.

After this "arm of justice" gave us 15 days to appeal by announcing her verdict, we started thinking about how to deal with this gallows term. 15 days, that's at least one weekend when I will be able to devote myself "full time" to preparing the appeal, but what about the rest? By the fact that this "fair woman" ended our first round of both lawsuits on the same day, after all, as she had planned from the beginning and as it was also heard in the wiretaps here and here, we had to appeal within 15 days and in both of them.

The preparation of the "appeal" for the Prague Municipal Court will require different ammunition! We both knew that. In addition, it would take some kind of lawyer, it sounded almost "in unison" from us at the time.

But where to "take and not steal" such a thing? The battle against time has begun.

With the "search", "Google" selflessly helped. But my inquiry about the status of my bank account did not help me with "not stealing". Poor guy, much decimated by the events of that fall 2019 (described here) and the expected "dard" for "court costs" to the lawyer of the opposing party #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") for losing the first round, humorously described here, didn't offer me the opportunity to properly push myself in my fair fight against them in the "appeal". On the other hand, for the righteous duo #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") and #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka") it was "different porn" - all they had to do was reach out and #KF ("Kristína Fšetko"), with kind help #USAGM ("US Global Media") and from the money of American taxpayers #UTP ("US Tax payer"), they are happy to seal this "bag" selflessly at any time. "Justification" - that is and was the important and correct word here, valid for every "sprinkling" here.

Fortunately, the law helped us with the missing time, specifically the institute of "blanket appeal". Over time, however, our father's sudden death also helped us in our misfortune, which we stated in our application as the reason for extending the appeal period. Thanks to this event, we also became orphans.

It's a shame. I wanted to brag to him so much that I really didn't give up and that we, together with my sister, finally won it all against them. Against Radio ГA / ГA!

And because karma is (un)fair, it made itself known to the other party as well. In the same year that we filed both lawsuits against Radio ГA / ГA, an event allegedly occurred in the family of their loyal "contract" female judge that no loving parent would want to experience. The death of a teenage daughter at the hands of a boyfriend and a murderer in one person was something you normally only read about in detective stories or on the pages of the tabloids. In addition, his name, so similar to mine, or our common Slovak origin, which was given to us by our birth, gave me a simple explanation for her bias towards us.

RIP to both.

But let's move on to less sad things, and as part of some legal education, allow me a sentence about this type of appeal.

Appellants file - so-called blank appeals - is mainly useful in order to obtain additional time to specify the grounds of appeal.

Although we did not know the financial costs associated with this decision of ours, we agreed on the following strategy at my father's funeral:

• For the "invalidity of the notice" claim, we will have an appeal created by a reputable law firm, preferably located on Wenceslas Square and "honoured" with several "Lawyer of the Year" ratings

• We will face the lawsuit against "discrimination and unequal treatment" and fight again with our own strength

• In order to save time (and some "money" before we find a lawyer on the market to represent us, we will send a "blanket appeal" prepared by ourselves to the Circuit Court for both lawsuits

I launched Google and started searching and reaching out.

While searching for suitable legal representation in the form of a lawyer who would meet my "ideas" as accurately as possible, which could be translated as the best possible "price/performance" ratio, I soon understood that the fulfilment of this task would be, even with regard to for the time remaining until our appeal is filed, a superhuman feat.

Not that there are not enough lawyers in the lawyer's bed. There's even a "chamber" full of them, willing and ready to help you and, I believe, defend you!

Unfortunately, their membership here is not a guarantee that they will not shave you like a sheep at every opportunity, and as a bonus to all this they will add the reality of a cleaning your bank account. The idea that JUDr. Tomáš Sokol will represent me in my fair fight for my brown eyes, I therefore rejected with a heavy heart and a tear in my eye. Instead, I began to focus my search on the á-la category of slightly more expensive "Ex Offo" lawyers. I soon learned that such benefactors really do not exist.

The idea that it would be a status honor and a challenge for a freelance lawyer to compete with the legal representation of Radio ГA / ГA, it also soon took for granted. In several cases, I even encountered the fact that some of them did not even want to get professionally involved with this standard of American democracy. Maybe the reputation and long tentacles of Aspen Institute Central Europe would work? I really do not know.

However, the deadline was inexorably approaching, so we sent the following request to the District Court for Prague 10 and to the hands of #JH ("Dr. Hustá").

It didn't take long before our "blanket appeals" in both lawsuits were sent with the blessing of #JH ("Dr. Hustá") to the Municipal Court of Prague and we, equipped with prescribed masks, determinedly set out for the arranged meeting in the center of Prague.

The goal was clear – to find a lawyer quickly! What's more, find the ideal lawyer!

He should have been a lawyer, according to our ideas, Mr. Lawyer. No quick kvass, or a sloppy Pilsen law university graduant! Rather older, grizzled, seasoned in court battles, crowned with victories in them, having his work as a selfless hobby and taking new cases only as another challenge. That someone like that is really just an idealistic character from a stupid legal series, we should have known soon.

At the agreed time, we were picked up at the reception of the well-known law firm "She & He" in the center of Prague by a thirty-year-old double master with carefully cut dark hair with brilliant highlights, in a well-fitting suit from Blažek and boots from the same company. After a few polite phrases and over a late "café" from an ecological cup, we soon moved in our debate to the merits of the whole matter.

According to the price list published on their internet site, the basic duration of the meeting with the client was set at 45 minutes at a price of CZK 1,800, while the 20-minute warm-up meeting was completely free. It is normal that for the first 20 minutes you will only talk about the weather, possibly about any procedural actions and intended procedures, so we expected the only meaningful result from this meeting in the following 45 minutes.

Those of you who have been following my story from the beginning you will surely agree that it is truly a superhuman feat to tell about all my troubles in just one hour. So we focused on the essentials of our whole story and mainly on "what it would be like if we slapped each other". We were particularly interested in how the lawyer sees it through his lens and what are our chances here?

It would be naive to think that we will leave this first meeting together with a clear offer. However, at the end of the session, which went like water for our side, even something like a "fahrplan" was born. And as we could not help but notice the attorney's fierce battle with fatigue as the end of our meeting drew to a close, manifesting himself more and more often in an unsuccessful battle with hidden yawns, we said him goodbye and promised to consider his offer of representation.

So what was the offer? I will answer after a short introduction.

As described in one of our posts here, due to the circuit court's very original way of filing both of our lawsuits, curiously enough, our file size swelled and began to approach the size, due to extensive attachments and audio recordings, high quality novels like "War and Peace". So we haven't even really moved yet and we've already filled the smaller TESCO cart, I thought to myself at the time. This legal effort of theirs has resulted in the fact that if you finally find a lawyer and ask him to represent you, he will logically ask for time to familiarise himself with the case before his "résumé". That means - read and listen to everything.

Unfortunately, your "dog eye" and your possible persuasive talent won't help you at all. It's just a business like any other, and his right to know the merits of the matter before deciding whether or not to go with you, it is logical.

And how is such familiarisation with the case priced? The price is determined by agreement.

When I go back in my head over the course of our meeting at that time, I can't get rid of the feeling that his first stare happened somewhere shortly after the estimated price for studying my files. He probably expected applause for such an amazing offer, which, for reasons unknown to him, we did not properly appreciate. I really do not know. I just didn't have the experience before. Instead, he received only additional questions from us about what is included in the price and whether it is the final price or just the "first dig".

The awkwardness of the moment was not saved even by our appeal to his feelings, that I am simply "almost a social case", illegally dumped on the pavement just before my retirement, and that we see this case as his clear win, which he can handle without breaking a sweat and with a slight left rear.

We didn't convince…

So what was the price that "does not refuse"?

The first offer was roughly 70,000 CZK and it was only for the "first dig" and without VAT, which is no longer important today. But the more important fact was that it was only a matter of several hours of reading the file, ending with a statement that it would go ahead or not. No certainty, only some kind of hope with a view to the future. But most importantly, if it goes ahead, other similar amounts will follow in quick succession.

Perhaps, during our initial interview, we lured him to the prospect of almost a million in winnings in the event of his winning the dispute, and thus to the fact that we would have something to "spoil" him properly. This too may have played a role in his thought processes. Maybe, who knows?

Anyway, he subsequently reduced his offer to CZK 30,000 "for that mere calculation", but with a definitive postscript that said it all - "take it or leave it"! It's just a pity that our original offer in the form of several tens of percent of the settled amount as his share of the success in this dispute left him cold. Holt, he chose the non-business "better a sparrow in a handful than a pigeon on the roof". And there is nothing to be surprised about, one could say with the passage of time.

And so I immediately sent the 1,800 CZK from my account for our joint loss of time and also for the priceless experience of learning how things work here with the legal services.

Thanks to this, today I know how much the law firm will cost #MV (Dr. Prasátko”) and I already have an idea of how the American taxpayers #UTP ("US Tax payer") must be generous to protect the moral integrity and reputation of Radio ГA / ГA.

So let's start with Mr. Double Master's offer.

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The advance invoice for more than 36,000 CZK for work that had not yet been done arrived in my mailbox on time. However, it was never paid. Instead, that karma worked and we suddenly started having completely different problems. In the end, the money for assisting justice was swallowed up by completely different events, connected with the organization of the funeral and the settlement of the will.

Covid Christmas 2021 was still approaching and many people in our country wished to experience a better year than the one that was just ending in the company of covid masks.

But I had no idea that my decision to appeal against the decisions of the first instance cour and my complaints addressed to the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic, would help my other and worse non-binary "me" come into the world.

I additionally named it "Simulakrum" - after all, like his whole story here

On Monday 13/12/2021, we buried our father and entered the next battles against Radio ГA / ГA in the familiar unchanged line-up.

Just me and my sister again.