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ORIGINAL: MadAxeman

The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

He's a lawyer...and you know what Shakespeare said about lawyers

Even a cursory reading of the context in which the lawyer killing statement is made in King Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2, reveals that Shakespeare was paying great and deserved homage to our venerable profession as the front line defenders of democracy.
 
The accolade is spoken by Dick the Butcher, a follower of anarchist Jack Cade, whom Shakespeare depicts as "the head of an army of rabble and a demagogue pandering to the ignorant," who sought to overthrow the government.  Shakespeare's acknowledgment that the first thing any potential tyrant must do to eliminate freedom is to "kill all the lawyers" is, indeed, a classic and well-deserved compliment to our distinguished profession.
 
Today's Jack Cades can readily be found throughout the insurance industry and in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies.  They want to dismantle the tort system.  They want to disrupt the judiciary and abrogate the common law, to the detriment of the rights of individual citizens, consumers, and injured persons who deserve competent representation and adequate redress for harm done to them.
 
Over the centuries tyrants and demagogues have come in many forms.  In today's context, it is not the "army of rabble and a demagogue pandering to the ignorant" who cry for the demise of the lawyers, but rather modern demagogues who manipulate our governmental institutions to their own ends.  Why?  Because trial lawyers are the first line of defense to prevent irresponsible elements within the insurance, manufacturing, and chemical companies from dismantling the tort system, disrupting the judiciary and abrogating the common law to the detriment of the rights of individual citizens, consumers and tort victims.
 
Doubtless, if Shakespeare could put quill to parchment to script analogous phrases for modern corporate tyrants, he could couch their refrain thusly:

• If America's democratic institutions of right to trial by jury and election of judges are to be abolished, first let's discredit all the lawyers;
  
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• If American citizens' common law rights to full recovery of legal damages are to be abrogated for the benefit of profit-motivated corporations, first let's defame all the lawyers; and
  
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• If America's judicial system of tort reparations is to be remolded into a profit mechanism for the insurance industry, first let's degrade all the lawyers.

http://www.howardnations.com/shakespeare.html

Whhooo, whooo.  I loved this quote from the same play:

"Small things make base men proud". - (Act IV, Scene I).
 
candystripper 

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

I would love to know if any of these threads HAVE been flagged...lol.

*waves hello to the Secret Service*

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just a question...are there really more threats..or do they focus more on it..because he is coloured?
Since he is a candidate there is already so much talk about this...that people might focus on it more then with previous presidents.