Lawyers: Industry of Slander
 Pro Per Litigation is PROPER LITIGATION
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Why pick on lawyers? Doesn't every trade and profession have its good and its bad members? What's so special about the lawyer industry?
In fact, there is something unique about the lawyer industry.
There is no trade or profession which has perversion of justice itself as its top priority - except the lawyer industry.
The lawyer is a hired gun. He is paid money by one stranger to go into court and slander another stranger. Whoever has justice on his side is not his concern. His only "moral" concern is to what extent he zealously represents his client - not whether justice is achieved. And if he is representing the guilty it is his solemn obligation to see that justice is perverted.
An Ancient Roman law - lex cincia - prohibited paying fees to lawyers for representing anyone in court: "If no one paid a fee for lawsuits, there would be less of them! As it is, feuds, charges, malevolence and slander are encouraged." - Senator Gaius Silius during Senate debate [47 AD.] of the issue.
It's no wonder that lawyers have been attacked throughout history:
“The historian J.B. McMaster wrote that during the early American Republic: ‘. . . [lawyers] were denounced as banditti, as bloodsuckers, as pickpockets, as windbags, as smooth-tongued rogues . . . . The mere sight of a lawyer . . . was enough to call forth an oath or a muttered curse. . . .” [citing J.B. McMaster, History of the People of the United States, vol.1, quoted in Warren, A History of the American Bar (Boston, Little,Brown,1911), pg. 216.].
In fact, the greatest minds in history have been attacking lawyers for thousands of years - since the time of the ancient Greeks:
"The case against the lawyer has not been stated more bitterly than by Plato . . . " (CAIRNS, Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel (Johns Hopkins Pr.,1949, p.74-75; citing Theaet. 175-177;Rep.405).
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A famous pro se litigant was the ancient philosopher, Socrates. The merit of his cause (freedom of speech) has inspired countless generations notwithstanding that he "lost his case". Ironically, law schools today use the Socratic approach in educating lawyers, although his student, Plato, provided one of literature's most unflattering descriptions of the lawyer:"The case against the lawyer has not been stated more bitterly than by Plato . . . A philosopher has his talk out in peace, and wanders at will from one subject to another, not caring whether his words are many or few, if only he attains the truth. But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the water flowing through the water-clock to drive him on and not allow him to develop his points at will; there is his adversary standing over him, enforcing his rights; there is the pleading to be read, from which he must not deviate. He is a servant continually disputing before his master, who is seated, and has the cause in his hands. As a consequence, he has become tense and shrewd; he has learned how to wheedle his master with words and indulge him in deed; and his character becomes small and warped. His thoughts are never disinterested, because of the issue at stake, which is sometimes life itself. From his youth upwards he has been a slave and that has deprived him of growth, straightforwardness, and independence; dangers and fears, which were too much for his truth and honesty, came upon him in early years, when the tenderness of youth was unequal to them, and he has been driven into crooked ways; from the first he has practiced deception and retaliation, and has become bent and stunted. Consequently, he has passed from youth to manhood with no soundness of mind in him; but he thinks he has become clever and wise. His narrow, keen, pettifogging mind reveals its helplessness when, divorced from its pleas and rejoinders, it is brought to the contemplation of the nature of right and wrong or of human happiness and misery. He can make a fawning speech smartly and neatly, but he cannot discourse intelligently on the meaning of the good life." (Huntington Cairns, Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel (Johns Hopkins Pr.,1949, p.74-75; citing Theaet. 175-177;Rep.405).
Other examples abound in literature:
See Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels, Chapter V: “[T]here was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.”; etc., etc. See ROTH, Devil’s advocates (Nolo Pr.,1989) for 171 pages of more examples.
The lawyers' motivation is greed - not justice:
“Ninety percent of our lawyers serve ten percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” — Jimmy Carter, Thirty-ninth President, in a speech before the Los Angeles County Bar Association on May 4, 1978.
And the notion that lawyers are "officers of the court" and that the lawyer business is non-commercial was deemed “sanctimonious humbug” by the U.S. Supreme Court:
“‘We all know that law offices are big businesses, that they may have billion-dollar or million-dollar clients, they’re run with computers, and all the rest. And so the argument may be made that to term them noncommercial is sanctimonious humbug.” (Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1976) 433 U.S. 350,368 (n.19)).
Important Note: PRO PER LITIGATION SOCIETY DOES NOT INTERPRET THE LAW OR PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE
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