ON one hand, lawyers say, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
ON the other hand, lawyers say, “If you run into the law, you’ll need a lawyer because the law is too complicated for the layman to understand.”
Funny thing, too, since the US Constitution, the originating document for all law, is written in English, yet, lawyers like to practice law using Latin, as though they are trying to hide their thoughts from the layman.
To avoid ignorance of the law the entire population needs to go to law school.
Lawyers must have their complex jargon and secret handshakes to justify the exorbitant fees they charge.
“All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” Matthew 5:37
“All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. ”
—H.L. Mencken
As though? Does anyone imagine that they might NOT be trying to hide their thoughts from the layman?
Not long ago I said on this forum that it is now IMPOSSIBLE to be a law abiding citizen and received a heated response from someone who thought I was admitting to intentionally breaking the law and who assured me that it is easy to be a law abiding citizen if you WANT to! Some people just don’t seem to have a clue how bad it really is. Anyone who still believes that he can live in this country and NOT break laws does not have even the tiniest understanding of the law. I really don’t believe there is any possibility that any human can go for 24 hours in this country without breaking the law.
Plus there’s always the Hillary defense, “I didn’t intend to break any laws.”