kill all the lawyers – The Burning Platform

Guest Post by Michael Lesher

The first thing we do,” says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s early history play Henry VI, Part II – “let’s kill all the lawyers.”

In Shakespeare’s telling, Dick the Butcher is a notorious bully – and when he calls for the murder of lawyers he’s playing a leading role in a revolt against the legitimate king. So Justice John Paul Stevens probably got it right when, in a 1985 opinion, he interpreted the line as an indirect defense of the legal profession: “Shakespeare insightfully realized that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government.”

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Well, so it is; and Stevens also realized that you don’t actually have to “kill all the lawyers” in order to “dispose” of them – least of all when the bulk of the profession appears more than happy to dispose of itself.

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Via State of the Nation

How the Lawyers Destroyed American Society…
…and Corporate Attorneys Devastated the Planet

The Legal Profession Has Enabled the Destruction of the American Republic From Within

Bad lawyers and unscrupulous attorneys-at-law have infested every business and industry, every government and non-profit, every field of endeavor and walk of life … to the detriment of them all.

Did you know that BAR-registered attorneys-at-law were once barred from running for political office in the USA? Nevertheless, the legal profession eventually overran Washington and took over virtually every powerful office and influential position in sight.

The Missing 13th Amendment: *No Lawyers Allowed In Public Office*

Truly, the legal profession has undermined American society like none other. In fact the vast majority of elective offices at the national level are held by current BAR-registered lawyers or previously practicing attorneys. Hence, it is important to bear in mind that most members of Congress are BAR-registered lawyers just as the highest level positions within the Executive Branch are held by lawyers. Of course, the entire Supreme Court is constituted with ex-judges who were BAR-registered lawyers.

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