[Vision2020] lawyers

[keely emerinemix]

I'm getting tired of all of the lawyer-bashing here.

Yeah, sometimes bad lawyers do reprehensible things.  Welcome to a fallen 
world; there isn't a profession in it whose practitioners are all pure and 
free from temptations of greed and power.  But I'm astonished at how easily 
people who enjoy freedom and a secure social order blast an entire 
profession whose efforts safeguard what they hold dear, and then presume to 
run to them when their rights are trampled on.  We all benefit from  the 
highest ideals of the law, and most of us have not suffered directly from 
the bad behavior of some in the profession.  On the contrary.  We're better 
off because of law  and the lawyers who study, administer, and guide us 
through it.

It occurs to me that it is the provence of the secure and relatively 
affluent -- I might say "privileged" -- to malign lawyers.  Try seeing 
through the eyes of the disenfranchised, the victimized, the poor, and the 
voiceless, for whom the long arm of a vicious society constantly reaches.  
In Spanish, the word for lawyer, "abogado," is similar to "advocate."  In my 
work with Mexican immigrants, I saw many examples of injustice, and I saw a 
few times when righteousness and justice were accomplished through lawyers 
-- advocates for those without one.  I thank God for those women and men who 
safeguard the freedoms of both the most privileged and the least of those 
among us.  Respect for the professions compels me to lament the bad ones, 
but it also requires that I extend my gratitude to the good ones who I know 
are the majority.

keely



From: "Kai Eiselein" <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Health Care
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:55:23 +0000

I notice that Nick left out a critcal element in the health care issue: 
LAWYERS.
How much of the high cost is a direct result of sleazy litigators and their 
often frivolous lawsuits, which result in higher malpractice insurance 
costs, which are then passed on to consumers?
One of the hardest hit areas in medicine is in the OB specialty and many 
highly qualified practitioners are leaving it because of outrageous 
insurance costs.
When are people going to learn that doctors are not miracle workers, people 
die. Things don't always work out as planned or hoped, an unforseen 
complication here an alergic reaction there and, suddenly, a greezy shyster 
shows up and says its worth millions.
This isn't to say that doctors shouldn't be held accountable for their 
mistakes, they should, but there are things out of their control as well.
Get the scuzzball attorneys under control first, then see what happens. But 
we know that won't happen with the number of sharks we've elected to 
national office. They'll protect their own.
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