A ploy named SUE

Amanda Jax was a young Minnesota woman who died after another night of drinking too much. I say another, because this young woman had a couple of DUI's under her belt prior to her death. Now her mother is suing Amanda's friends for wrongful death. Jax mother said she hopes this lawsuit will prevent further deaths from binge drinking. She went on to say that she had no idea this kind of thing could happen. May I call ,Bullshit ?

The details of the events leading up to Jax death are pretty typical for a group of 20 - 22 year old college kids. They drank a whole lot of booze, Jax passed out and threw up, they took her home and discovered she had died at some point during the night. So the question I pose to all of you is this, Are her friends liable for her death?

I say absolutely not. This girl was a former nursing student who clearly had a drinking problem. She knew better than anyone else that she was drinking too much, it isn't her friends responsibility to monitor her, she was an adult. The mother of Amanda is understandably mourning the loss of her child, but lets be honest about her motivation behind this lawsuit. It has nothing to do with bringing awareness to an issue she claims she never knew existed, and it has everything to do with vindictiveness and bitterness. This is about a woman so hurt by the loss of her child, that she is hell bent on seeking retribution by ruining the lives of young people who were being irresponsible young people, exactly like her daughter was leading up to her death.

Guilt is a bitch, it will cause you to do things you might not normally do, add in an all consuming anger and a need to strike back, and you have what we have in this case. What Mrs. Jax is doing isn't justice, it's revenge, and it's just plain wrong. If her daughter had been one of the defendants rather than the victim, I guarantee you she wouldn't think this was a solid and fair lawsuit. Her contention that she was in the dark about binge drinking, is pretty thin. I doubt anyone in America hasn't heard of college kids drinking themselves to death, and Mrs Jax is being disingenuous in her claims of ignorance.

So let's just call this lawsuit what it is, revenge, pure and simple. The life of Amanda Jax mother is irrevocably changed for the worse. In her pain and anguish she is seeking the age old remedy to relieve it, revenge. But it wont bring back her child, it wont ease the pain or guilt. It will just serve to do further damage to more lives, and that ain't justice no matter how you slice it.

So what do you think?