Question: Would American lawyers take to the street like

[malaise]

lawyers in Pakistan to defend the constitution?

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Only if they were paid their $500.00 an hour to do so.

Hell no.

[malaise]

3. CNN is showing video with Bush and Mushie and

Condi and Mushie. Priceless.

[Swamp Rat]

12. LOL!

:rofl: ....... ok, not really funny. x(

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. I'm in a curmudgeonly mood today. My friend called me yesterday. Her hubby is a lawyer

and she said he was IRATE over Hillary's tax plan. His $4 MILLION FREAKIN' dollars was going to be taxed more :cry::cry::cry: and he may vote for one of the repukes if she's the Dem nominee! My opinion of him went waaaaaay down after that conversation.....down to pond scum. Lawyers are on my shit list today.;)

[spirit of wine]

2. Would they even recognize it?

[malaise]

4. Don't know n/t

[L. Coyote]

5. Remember Florida 2000?

[malaise]

7. They took to the street to fugg up

Gore's victory.

[Nevernose]

6. Things are bad here, but not PAKISTAN bad

If Bush suspended the constitution and sent the army after anyone who could oppose him legally, then more lawyers just might take to the streets (a LOT of lawyers already have, for the record).

But that's the insidious thing: it's not overnight in this country, like in Pakistan, or even in the course of a single decade. It's the work of generations and decades. I honestly don't fear too much for myself. I'll probably be okay. It's my daughter and hypothetical granddaughters that I worry about.

[malaise]

9. Good post

Pakistan has had decades of these dictators

[LakeSamish706]

8. Are you shitting me... They would get their suits mussed like the Pakistani Lawyers.. duh.. not .n/t

[malaise]

10. I think they might if it got really bad

call me naive.

[LakeSamish706]

11. How about this answer.... Only if they had a Trial Lawyer like John Edwards...

leading the way.... That seems pretty positive to me...

[orleans]

16. NAIVE! n/t

[defendandprotect]

13. No -- where were the lawyers when the Supreme Gang of 5 stole 2000???

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. and the 2002 & 2004 elections.

:grr:

[defendandprotect]

20. AND, these computer steals go back to the late 1960's when the computers came in . . .

PLEASE SEE VOTESCAM . . . either the article I've posted here or go to the website where
you can scan some of the book written by Jim & Ken Collier -- journalists who came upon this story and wrote about it long, long ago ---

Our country's democracy has been being stolen since the beginning of time --
certainly immediately Post WWII ... thru the McCarthy Period . . . rise of the MIIC ...

and the overt political violence of the JFK coup --- MLK -- RFK -- and on and on.

Those breakouts are where they reach new plateaus --
Reagan/Iran-Contra --- Secret and Shadow government --- and Ollie North's effort to subdue the
Constitution ---

It's not 6 years of steals ---
It's 40 years of steals ---

Ever think in that long period of time that something was wrong with who this nation was voting for?????

If you go to Votescam -- please try to move the story and facts along here and as far as you can...

Thank you ---

[mopinko]

17. apparently not.

at least not so far. can't imagine what they could be waiting for.

[Double T]

18. The lawyers ARE congress and they have already hijacked our Constitution.

[defendandprotect]

21. Right, we have the ESTABLISHMENT in Congress . . . running it --- !!!

And we wonder why they are not opposing the status quo --- ??!!!

[riverdeep]

19. There are the scumbag lawyers,

those are the ones we hear about. But there are also lawyers working for the environment, for consumers, for the Innocence Project. As to taking to the streets to defend the constitution, there's too many lawyers who don't believe it's threatened.

Now, here's the real point of the post, a chance for a lawyer joke.:evilgrin:

A new client had just come in to see a famous lawyer.
"Can you tell me how much you charge?", said the client.
"Of course", the lawyer replied, "I charge $200 to answer three questions!"
"Well that's a bit steep, isn't it?"
"Yes it is", said the lawyer, "And what's your third question?"

[TNOE]

22. Never under-estimate the lawyers or the law

The Rule of Law has contributed a great deal to making this country great. It is the breaking and suspension of that "rule of law" that has wrought us our current mess.

I previously worked with a pretty hi-profile Bush loving Repuke attorney, who I considered a friend and we would have very long passionate talks about the state of our world.. and he always told me that I was "being ridiculous" and that things "would never get that bad" "and if they did, there would be Republicans out in the streets marching with the Dems". I believe him - and as an aside - he came back for a visit about 6 months ago & stopped in my office to tell me that I had been right about everything & he couldn't believe how "wrong" he was and that Bush had NO BUSINESS being in the presidency and was NEVER fit for the job.

Also, don't forget the lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay detainees. There are a few bad eggs (like in every other profession) but a whole lot of good ones. After all, many people ARE lawyers because they LOVE the Law.