Diversionary tactic

Editor: I noted with great interest the Page 1 article in the May 9 Times-Tribune concerning the attack upon trial lawyers by the Catholic archbishop of Denver.

This type of attack is nothing new. It is the same tactic that has been used for years by manufacturers of dangerous products (like the Pinto automobile) and drugs (like Vioxx), careless drivers, insurance companies and now the medical profession in an effort to evade their responsibility to pay fair compensation to those injured as a result of losses, damages and injuries caused to their victims. Since these wrongdoers know that they cannot attack their victims (again), the next best thing is to attack trial lawyers who seek to obtain fair compensation for the losses, damages and injuries inflicted upon these victims.

Hopefully, the public will begin to see these attacks as exactly what they are: attacks upon the rights of victims to fair compensation for the losses, damages and injuries inflicted upon them through wrongdoings of others. They attack trial lawyers as easy targets to disguise their real motives: evade responsibility for wrongdoing and let the victim be a victim again.

LAURENCE M. KELLY
MONTROSE