Welcome to my page. My name is Danial C. Miller, currently a senior at the University of Alabama. I have decided to dedicated my page to my asperations of becoming an attorney. I hope you will find this site inspirational, as well as learn a few things both about myself and this journey that has more or less found me.
Lately I have considered my reasoning to become an attorney. It has engulfed my focus and has been my drive for the past 3 years. And what is my idealogoy? Where is my reasoning rooted? I have come to this conclusion: I like to help others. In many ways this could be the driving force for others today. Certainly there's the instinct to make one's self happy, and the nature of taking care of one's own, but I have always thought that if you are able to help someone else, you ought to.
The second reason I want to become an attorney is that I believe in Freedom, and I believe in America, and I believe that today, and for the past several decades, Freedom and America are not synonymous. They should be, but somehow I feel that we've fallen short or lost our way. Being a war veteran, having fought for something (still not exactly sure what or why except I always dreamed of serving the country), and having witnessed others dieing in the war, I have to ask myself: what did we fight for? And why are we? I've heard that soldiers fight for America's freedom. I look around, and honestly I don't see alot of freedoms being enjoyed. What I do see is police setting up road blocks every day and night under the guise of making the streets safe. Then in courts I witness the underclass being fined into oblivion for choosing to take care of their children over affording automobile insurance. And at a case load of 600 plus, and at a minimum court cost of 150 plus dollars, that's approaching 6 figures every time court is held! If for some insane stroke of luck a person is found to be Not Guilty, the innocent individual is still mandated to pay court cost! To me, it appears that this criminal justice system is more of a racket to keep money flowing in--at the expense of those who are less equipted to afford such a burden--than it is about honoring the sanctity of what is right and just. In my rationale there is right and wrong, and sometimes a little gray area. However, what is right and wrong or gray is not the same as what is legal or defines "lawful." And, if we have good citizens of this country will to sacrifice their lives, their everything, for the ideal of keep America free, why are good citizens willing to set idlely by to watch their freedoms and rights get trampled on by the government they served.
Lastly, there is a big difference in the definitions of patriotism today, as opposed to the definition of patriotism in 1776. Today, being patriotic means governmental compliance; supporting the government and all their actions and the laws that the government deem necessary without question. That asking questions or being objectionable is equal to underminding what is good. However, this great nation of ours was founded on the ideals of keeping this nation accountable to it's people. There was a sense of duty to question the government in order to keep it true to it's constituency. This is the ideal behind our democratic society--to keep our country ours through vote, checks and balances, and the like.
Thus, I want to continue fighting for freedom. To me, there is not a more noble future. In this end, I hope to help others as an attorney. I have prayed long and hard, mostly that God guide my path, and it has led me this far, as a senior at the University of Alabama as a Criminal Justice major, Psychology minor. I am thumping out the legwork necessary in hopes of one day accomplishing my dream--to become an attorney and help others in need.
