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From: keithe@teklabs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: laywers as the ultimate crooks
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 12:18:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 19 12:18:05 1983
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NOTE: The following is a prejudiced, biased and totally slanted view
on lawyers and the law profession in general. It is also the truth.
But you are totally free to ignore it if you want to. Send responses to
...!blackhole!/dev/null. (Now I'll probably find out that there really
IS an machine named "blackhole".)

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Somebody said that lawyers do a lot of good - keeping people out of
trouble by preparing contracts, wills, etc.

MOOSEPOOP!

Contracts wouldn't have to be as complicated as they are, and wills
wouldn't have to be written under such controlled circumstances, if
laws hadn't been written - by LAWYERS, for the most part - to require
such nit-picking effort. I believe that if it weren't so easy to find a
"sue-the-bastard" lawyer, America wouldn't be so lawsuit-happy.  For
the most part, lawyers tend to write laws that perpetuate the need for
lawyers. They've got a really GREAT racket goin, don't they?!
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(Sidebar follows:)
By the way - when is this discussion supposed to move to net.followup?
I never have figured that out...  I 'spose now would be as good a time
as any (but I haven't signed any contracts obligating me to submit to
that newsgroup. Have I?)

keith ericson at teklabs
:-)

P.S. The opinions contained herein are my own and not necessarily those
of Tektronix, Inc.; and certainly not those of the legal department,
whose existence is probably responsible for this disclaimer.