"The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers", By Howard L. Nations, Law Offices of Howard L. Nations, Wednesday, March 02, 2011

... (in King Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2) ... The accolade is spoken by Dick the Butcher, a follower of anarchist Jack Cade, whom Shakespeare depicts as "the head of an army of rabble and a demagogue pandering to the ignorant," who sought to overthrow the government. Shakespeare's acknowledgment that the first thing any potential tyrant must do to eliminate freedom is to "kill all the lawyers" is, indeed, a classic and well-deserved compliment to our distinguished profession.

Today's Jack Cades can readily be found throughout the insurance industry and in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies. They want to dismantle the tort system. They want to disrupt the judiciary and abrogate the common law, to the detriment of the rights of individual citizens, consumers, and injured persons who deserve competent representation and adequate redress for harm done to them.

Probably it is cheaper than killing all lawyers and bloodless to simply and directly buy or bribe Supreme Court Justices as hid out and decided Bush v. Gore, 2000, and after that let all the lawyers pose and pirouette to their hearts content, doing the Billable Hours bump-da-booty while the ultimate ruling is predetermined, prepaid, pre-signed, -sealed, and -delivered.

Thanks for the link, Jack!

Keep up the good work!