Do you know anybody who hasn’t been milked by some dink-toed little lawyer bastard in a fancy suit? All of it in a publicly funded factory kept private for lawyerfish. The pompous black robed judge is a lawyer in the lawyers’ fraternity/monopoly known as the BAR ASSociation.

The first codified written laws in North America, The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, expressly forbid the lucrative lawyering scam that had so oppressed and milked the pilgrims in lawyer-ridden England.

article 26. Every man that finds himself unfit to plead his own cause in any Court shall have Liberty to employ any man against whom the Court does not except, to help him, Provided he give him no fee or reward for his pains. This shall not exempt the party himself from Answering such Questions in person as the Court shall think meet to demand of him.

Today; only your lawyer is allowed to speak – and it will cost you plenty.

See it all here; http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/organic/1641-mbl.htm

The Ancient Greeks should’ve banned lawyers from political office when they conceived of a democracy. Lawyers and carpetbaggers!

I, too, was at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. But I was at the one four years before Solomon’s.

We were thick in the thicket of Vietnam in ‘68 and I was sure–and still am–that the sanest, bravest voice among the candidates was that of Eugene McCarthy. A few cohorts and I were circling the Republican Convention center with our protest, home-made “Republicans for McCarthy” placards when a disgusted Republican delegate wandered out of the center and handed me his admission ticket!

I entered and was soon circling the hall while R. Nixon himself palavered. I got a sprinkling of applause, and then the boos and catcalls and looks-to-kill began. I came face to face with a young, hirsute Dan Rather and asked him to get it on the air. He said something like, If it bleeds, it leads.

I didn’t bleed then, but the nation kept bleeding. I didn’t get beaten up–as Rather would have liked, but we have beaten the hell out of “shit-ass” countries up and down the block in the years since then and Solomon’s cri de coeur here may cut thru some of the cultural muck we’ve grown fat, innured, and craven on.

Thanks, Norman, for sounding the tocsin again, for reminding us how it was and what we’ve lost; what we keep on losing, and what we continue to struggle for. Tears will wash the blood from the carpet–tears, and the astringents of memory and steady struggle.

Tricky Dick, our elected president, went to legal seminary at Duke U. in
North Carolina. So you can’t always blame Yale or law school in general although it’s a good start.

Both The Dickster and his his Attorney General, John Mitchell, were chock full legal training and professional ethics, but still completely deranged liars and criminals.

Memba Watergate? Twenty-one on the twenty-three Watergate criminals were trained lawyers.

All the following are or were trained lawyers and full of dalaw.

Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Clark Clifford
Billy Clinton, Hillarious Clinton, Janet Reno
John Edwards, Barrick Obama,
Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, Rudy Guiliani,
Sam Brownback, Michael Chertoff, Scooter Liebowitz
Jack Abramhoff, Joe Lieberman, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith,
Robert Zelikow, Alan Dershowitz, James Woolsey
James Baker, Ariel Cohen …
every member of the Supreme Court…
more than sixty per cent of the U S Senate are lawyers…

There are more lawyers in Washington D C than any other place on earth.

There are more than one million lawyers in Supernation.

Deranged, the official policy surely is, but the words doesn’t convey much information.

Whether the official murdering is analogous, similar, or essentially identical doesn’t surprise me or make me incredulous at all. Shouldn’t I expect it? Isn’t everything far more similar than different. Yeah, the derangement is the same. The murder is the same, too.

If these well-educated yuppie lawyers and pretentious Ivy League Ph Ds are deranged; do they have so-called mental illness? If so, where did they get it?

Would labeling these powerful yuppies as suffering from low self esteem be any more helpful and help us stop the murdering? They need therapy to exorcise their deranged thoughts? A new ethics, or at least better and less murderous ethics?

Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, Prozac, a trip to Barbados, or therapy on their gizmos in the toilet to make them less deranged? Less for a start. Total cure comes later.

What I am observing through all the peeyar obfuscation of the “official deranged policy” is precisely what I should expect from the preening officials in charge of orchestrating the murder.

Robert MacNamara was deranged and has mental illness to this day? Ditto for General Westmoreland and Lt. Calley.

LBJ was a dedicated Demo pol, but he had an ugly wife and suffered from lack of gratification and derangement leading to lying about the Gulf of Tonkin leading to mass murder. Good Framing but terrible ethics.

Bushbaby is a Repub pol (opposite of Demo?). Tragically, he is hopelessly stupid, deranged, and suffers from really low self-esteem leading to trumped up charges of weapons of mass destruction leading to mass murder that continues. Good framing and terrible ethics again.

Cheney is so far off the chart for derangement that his wife worries about his mental health.

Rummy is clearly deranged and should be institutionalized or at least given a super powerful cleansing enema.

Scooter Liebowitz is a trained lawyer with professional ethics, but he lied something terrible because of low self-esteem.

Hillarious Clinton is the framed feminist white hope, a trained Yalie lawyer, and selfless Demo politico. Like LBJ, she only wants to help the poor and downtrodden. She is deranged with excessive yuppie careerism and sucks for the Israel Lobby only because she seeks status and needs the money to meet her needs

She will probably lead Supernation’s continuing murder in the Middle East. She has plenty of legal training and knows how to play.

Hillarious and hubby Billy Blow both went to Yale Law School. Billy only instructed Monica to get down in the oval office because he was overworked and temporarily deranged.

Bush the Dad and Bushbaby both went to Yale for training in moving up. All this incestuous Yalie back slapping is called ironic by literary types.