Time: Thu Dec 11 03:00:14 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Law, Lawyers ... the bottom line? Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >Thanks to Don for forwarding this quote. It has a VERY familiar ring. > In fact, I'm sure many of us have used words quite similar. BUT, I >send this quote around because, to me, it is right at the BOTTOM >LINE and goes to the post of a day or two ago shown on the Subject >line. Read this quote, remember it. JURIES need to be told >exactly this; families, friends and neighbors need to be told >exactly this. Perhaps more importantly, GOVERNMENT MUST BE >TOLD that it had better get the gist of this message real quick, or >it is facing the grim reaper in the near future. > >It is true that the middle class is disappearing: they are being >divided up between those who are mad as hell and those who are crazy >as hell. For the purveyors of the "voluminous, incoherent, >incessantly changing (and suffocating) LAW, the time could come when >there won't be enough places to hide. > >Natural law. You know it's not nice to fool Mother Nature. Sooner >or later the crop comes in. > >ICE > >From: koehn@ct.picker.com (Don Koehn) >Subject: Re: piml] Lawyers Now Have Control of Nation Once > Ruled by Law > > "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws >are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous >that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be >understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are >promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who >knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to- >morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that >be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed ?" > >James Madison, Federalist Paper 62 > >____________________________________________________ > >
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