OK, now that we are clear on that, we can move on. Luckily, anti-globos don't need lawyers, and if they do, hell, why have the bar? Let anyone hang out his shingle. It's all voodoo anyway, right?
Justin Schwartz, Esq.
--- mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Alex Cockburn (I hope I recollect correctly) once
> said
> that if we must have NAFTA and free trade,
> anti-globos
> should insist that any English speaking person in
> the
> world be able to take the bar and practice, which
> would expose American lawyers to the free market
> they
> say they love.
>
>
> --- Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org
> > [mailto:lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org]
> > On Behalf Of andie nachgeborenen
> >
> >
> >
> > I am not talking about lawyers in general, and I
> > wasn't saying all lawyers or mnost laewters or
> many
> > lawyers are generally ethical people and a boon to
> > society, though I am not saying the contrary
> either.
> > I
> > was saying, specifically, that the best _Ohio
> State
> > law_ students are just as smart as anyone in the
> > Ivies
> > or Oxbridge (the point that Luke doubted), and
> that
> > _Ohio State law_ students are nicer, more
> pleasant,
> > morte amiable people than grad students in
> > philosophy
> > at Tigertown, Michigan, or Cambridge.
> >
> > ======================================
> >
> > And Veblen pointed out the utter folly of making
> > such comparisons.
> >
> >
> >
> > Moreover, I am tired of lawyer-bashing from you.
> >
> > ====================================
> >
> > Take a nap, then. A lot more bashing of the legal
> > profession is in
> > order.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > You
> > know better. You can't blame lawyers for all that
> > crap. The drug war is due to the politicians.
> >
> > ============================================
> >
> > As elected officials they are law *makers*.
> Leaving
> > aside the average
> > number of lawyers in Congress, etc. since the
> > founding of the Republic,
> > don't attempt to use a simple redescriptive
> > technique in order to
> > distinguish law making from law following,
> > enforcement, adjudication
> >
> >
> >
> > The
> > Enron, etc., is due to the businessmen, the MBAs.
> > The
> > transactional lawyers (crooked ones)_wrote_ the
> > contracts, maybe some of them, directed to do so,
> > invented the schemers at the MBAs requests. The 3d
> > World debt is to to the bourgeoisie and the
> > economists
> > and loan officers at the IMF and the World Bank.
> >
> > =====================================
> >
> > The international neoliberal regime is a *legal*
> > regime. Sheesh, lefties
> > have been bashing neoliberal economics as a global
> > phenomenon for
> > decades, but when neoliberal legalism is brought
> up
> > you get all testy.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > We lawyers, especially we scumball corporate
> defense
> > lawyers, have a lot to answer for, but not the
> > particular litany of crimes toy attribute to us.
> For
> > the litany that can be correctly attributedto us,
> > see
> > Ralph Nader's No Contest.
> >
> > =======================================
> >
> > Read it a while back. It's not a matter of
> > personalities [hi Carrol].
> > You're happy to bash the Brad Delong's of the
> world,
> > but...I repeat
> > myself.....
> >
> >
> >
> > Philosophers, meanwhile, do little evil only
> because
> > they lack power, not because the lack malice. In
> the
> > small areas where they have power (in philosophy
> > depts), they do as much evil as they can. Asa
> > group,
> > they arte afr far worse than lawyers as a group,
> > not
> > just Ohio State law students. They are infinitely
> > worse than OSU law students as a group -- the
> latter
> > are very good people, and philosophers are
> > collectively lowlifes. Trust me, I know this from
> > personal experience.
> >
> > jks
> >
> >
> > ==========================================
> >
> > Unlike you I've never met a philosopher with
> malice,
> > but then if someone
> > was regularly malicious, I wouldn't care how well
> > they knew their Mill,
> > Neitzsche or whoever, they wouldn't be a
> > philosopher, imo. But that's
> > beside the point as both our sample sizes are too
> > small......
> >
> >
> > Chill out already,
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> >
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