Um… Do You Believe in Mystic Dwarves?
17 08 2006Apparently, a judge in the Philippines does.
Florentino Floro said that three mystic dwarves Armand, Luis and Angel had helped him carry out healing sessions during breaks in his chambers. Florentino Floro was appealing against a three-year enquiry that led to him being removed from the bench, saying he should not have been removed because of what he believed. Well, he had a point to an extent. But not to the extent of seemingly active mystic dwarves.
O.K. After I convinced myself that yes, I really was reading about mystic dwarves, on the BBC News website no less, I tried not to laugh. But it was no good. I found it so funny. Especially when I read that the judge “had made a covenant with his mystic dwarf friends that he could write while in a trance” and said that “he had been seen in more than one place at a time by several people.” And that he changed his robes every from blue to black Friday to “recharge his psychic powers”. It’s only fair to say at this point that he was found to be suffering from psychosis.
But the funniest part had to be the words he wrote in a letter to the court:
“”From obscurity, my name and the three mystic dwarves became immortal.”
Well, that’s one way of putting it I suppose. Not sure I’d like the good judge to preside if I was up in court!
Unsurprisingly the Supreme Court was unimpressed. Florentino Floro lost his appeal and was removed as a judge.
Edit: “Judge Floro” comments. No, really.
It is said that my Irish ancestors believed in leprechauns and fairies. It is also said that they definately had a twinkle in their eye when they made such claims. Two of them were magistrates but neither claimed to commune with “the little people” when it came to dispensing justice. The judge above was obviously nuts. This situation reveals why I do not believe that therer should be such a thing as lifetime judicial appointments in Canada, unless such appointmenst are made subject periodic psychiatric review.
You have a point. I’ve always thought that the lifetime appoinments of judges was rather a dangerous thing. Gives them carte blanche to do almost anything.
My three magical trolls, Stanley, Lewis and Grendel, and I scoff at those measly dwarves.
RMS