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It used to be that lawyers were respected in American society, but that has all changed. Since the glut of lawyers has produced a crop of integrity challenged " untouchables ", seemingly immune to the laws they themselves help to enforce ( yeah right ), many people believe that LAWYER is now synonymous with LIAR. This new royalty with the power to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, including trial judges and magistrates who coincidentally started off as lawyers, is also the new scum of the earth!
Daily, we are subjected to a march of government lawyers with quite questionable conduct and dubious motives, from the utterly and thoroughly corrupt Clinton administration, including the once clean Justice Department, who seem to think we were all born yesterday and will believe their obvious lies simply because they passed the BAR in some obscure state? A few of these arrogant semi-criminal types equipped with the instant " Get Out Of Jail Free Card " actually seem to believe we were all born the day before yesterday, as they repeat the same old lies over and over again in their newest form of recreation, MEDIA TALKING HEAD.
These lowlife pseudo-barristers s are never held truely accountable for their egregious illegal acts, but are only slapped on the wrist for being caught in their nefarious schemes or the ones of their undisclosed clients ( as in the corrupt to the bone Rose Law Firm's big mouthed bass of the week, Webster Hubbell )! That mouth which needs a hook in it to be complete, was actually a major Clinton ( Hillary? ) appointee in the infamous, evidence hiding, political graft and corruption enabling Justice Department. This guy gets convicted of bilking former clients for thousands of dollars and only gets a short incredibly well paid ( hundreds of thousands of dollars ) vacation to a cushy white collar jail cell, while his FOB buddies obstruct any and all investigations of his crooked to the max, boss!
How about the two Clown Princes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, David " Darth Vader " Kendall and Greg " Leon Trotsky " Craig, the President's ( and I use that term loosely ) so-called lawyers? In my First Amendment protected opinion, I believe these two knew all about the " lie, deny and stick to it " actions of the first philanderer and at the very least they condoned if not concocted the liar-in-chief's word parsing from hell unholy defense strategy ( as in they never met a lie they didn't think they could support in court? )!
Don't get me wrong, as lawyers from the private sector can be just as corrupt(able) as those who leech their money off the United States taxpayer. I am reminded of this every day as I reach for my morning orange juice!
What can we do about the new untouchable royal class, which seems to thrive on deception and untruths?
We could make it harder to pass the BAR exam in an individual state; raise the bar so to speak. This probably wouldn't work, as they would just give each other the answers before the test, no matter how difficult it was made ( or simply bribe the powers that be with the offer of millions of dollars in dirty moneyed commissions on some frivilous politically correct lawsuit perpretrated against an innocent person or organization to falsify the official records? ).
We could limit the number of lawyers who could officially practice law ( if they are always practising then when do they do it for real? ) and/or force them to renew their tickets by retaking the exam after some specific period of time, but that would be subject to the same corruption in the above paragraph?
We could put a ceiling on their commissions and/or fees for services? This won't work, as they form a majority of the legislators in Washington, who pass the laws and ofcourse they wouldn't want to lighten their own wallets!
The only way I can think of to wrangle these high paid bottom feeders, is to limit the attorney client privilege and force them to disclose certain materials which may be pertinent to legal investigations. As long as we allow them to run rampant over the laws we have to follow, they will continue to do so with a smile on their faces and a cheery reflection in the rear view mirror of their Turbo-Porsches!
I got it. The American people should vote out all the lawyer types ( rotten or otherwise, as the clean ones have dirtied themselves with guilt by association ) and then the non-laywer politicians could enact a law forbidding lawyers to hold elected office? Going further, we could force a candidate to prove he was never a lawyer to get on the ballot. Yeah, that's the ticket; and not a toilet paper law license either!
- Bongo ( What's wrong with a little overbilling between friends? )
Updated ( 6-8-2000 )
(c)2000 Bongo.