Com, Volume 3, Number 51 A-Clue. Com by Dana Blankenhorn Volume III, No. If you've brushed up your Shakespeare you know the rest of the quote. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Legal bullying is the route to trouble in a democratic system.
If lawyers use the court enough to get what they want, the people will balance the scales through the use of government. But just because a growing anger hasn't crystallized yet into a cause doesn't mean it's not there. It's just waiting for a spark to set it ablaze, and the fire could consume much of what the Internet economy has built. In looking over the stories for this week I've come across a host of examples where bullying lawyers, pushed by greedy businesspeople, are creating ill will. Others involve abuse of the libel law, aiming to keep critics from getting any hearing, even on the other side of a national border.