Hank Leland Research Department Service Employees International Union
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:09:13 -0800
> From: Paul Ward <paw196 at soton.ac.uk>
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> Subject: RE: Hitchens + rule by lawyers
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> (1) Good ole Hitchens. Coming out guns blazing and in
> contrary style to the bulk of American confused liberals who
> keep whinging on about 'sexual pecadilloes' of all things.
> So Tweedle-dee says 'sexual pecadilloes' & Tweedle-dum says
> 'lying under oath'. Still the wishy-washy liberals have got
> one thing right when they talk about right-wing coalitions
> (religious right team up with injured capital & other vested
> interests). All of which has Hitchens on the horns of the
> proverbial dilemma - in going for Clinton's jugular is he
> not aiding & abetting Newt Gingrich's loosely cobbled
> together coalition of 'baddies'? But then a true radical
> critic of the American political/economic system would
> hardly differentiate between Team A & Team B so Hitchens
> remains constant to his radical roots (hurrah).
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> (2) Anybody know what the technical term might be for rule
> by lawyers? Seems like every head of state nowadays was a
> lawyer at some point as if this is an essential stepping
> stone to the number one spot. Latin American governments
> have reportedly the highest number of lawyers in their
> legislatures hardly representative of their electors. Still
> one in four Americans are supposed to be lawyers so perhaps
> it IS representative at least in the 'land of the brave &
> the free'. Still the American Constitution was scripted
> almost exclusively by lawyers & after all whole else should
> run a legislature but a lawyer?