[Vision2020] lawyers
Tony
tonytime at clearwire.net
Tue Jan 9 08:12:02 PST 2007
Sue, I found your comments regarding professionalism to be most refreshing.
I agree that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter exemplify the very best in their
profession. Also, where you pointed out that some in a position of trust
abuse that trust by preying on young people, I was reminded once again of
Bill Clinton and his predatory behavior toward woman who functioned under
him.
Thanks again for your astute observations.
Best, -T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>; <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>;
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers
> Good for you, Keely. My nephew is an environmental lawyer in Seattle. I
> am
> so proud of him and his accomplishments. Just this month he was featured
> on
> the cover of a Seattle magazine as one of the significant persons in that
> city whose good deeds are worthy of celebration. There are scuzzy
> lawyers,
> yes; as there are persons in all fields who are not representative of the
> best of the profession. In the field of communications I would mention
> Rush
> Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. In the ministry and even in my own teaching
> profession all those in positions of trust who prey on young people. No
> profession has a corner on the market when it comes to unethical and
> unprofessional practitioners. Were it possible to purge the ranks of all
> of
> them that would be a cause to celebrate. Perhaps one way to begin to do
> that is for those who malign other professions to examine their own as
> well.
>>From my own perspective I feel Kai might even start in his own workplace.
>
> Sue Hovey
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> To: <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers
>
>
>> 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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