[lbo-talk] on lawyers (was Re: war propaganda)

[loupaulsen at attbi.com]

> However you gussy it up, the actually existing legal system serves mainly to 
> defend and perpetuate inequitable social relationships of all sorts.  I 
> think lawyers' pretensions to serve any higher, finer purpose are hogwash.
> 
> Carl

You could say exactly the same thing about the actually existing postal 
system, the actually existing banking system, the actually existing system of 
retail sales, the actually existing educational systems (primary, secondary, 
and higher), and the actually existing system of organized religion.  Among 
others.  So what's the point?  Are we all awful because we are complicit in 
the system and so on?  Not many of us are making a living bartering healthy 
organic lettuce with people, or whatever.

lp