I am not “in general.” (”Colonel” will suffice)
Yes there are attorneys with zero principles. There are also doctors, accountants, pipefitters and pizza makers with zero principles.
There are lawyers that see the Constitution as changing with the times. In some limited ways they are right. For example, the government cannot censor what you (foolishly) write here. That’s covered under the first amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech and freedom of the press because those two freedoms have been extends to the internet too. But since the Constitution does not mention Radio, but guarantees Rush the unfettered right speak his piece, and Hannity the right to tell us what he thinks, without government interference, although there is no “Freedom of Television” mentioned in the Constitution either, you either have a choice to accept that different lawyers do different things, or give up your right to listen and watch whomever you choose.
The courts, lawyers if you will, preserved those First Amendment rights for all of us. And the ones I worked with, were adamant about protecting the Constitution. A quick flash for you: “Heller v. District of Columbia” was not argued before the courts by a bunch of learned plumbers.
AJSCOTUS Scalia and AJSCOTUS Thomas are lawyers, not taxidermists.
If you don’t like lawyers, tough, but don’t generalize, any more than you would want me to generalize about your profession, because there is no way one could generalize about bathroom cleaners any more than one can generalize about lawyers.
Bottom line, if you don’t like lawyers en mass, get your local bartender to draw up your will for you.
The problem is attorneys in Congress. No one has a problem with an attorney drawing up a will. The ones in Congress have what, an 11% approval rating with the public? Nice try at dissembling though.
You abdicated any respect I might have had for you as a military person when you started advocating that we embrace swamp critters for Congress because they are “electable”. Moreover, announcing your military rank is supposed to achieve what? (I have a cousin who retired Colonel, and he never addressed himself that way). Petraeus is a General, but he supported the wicked witch of Arkansas...and she isn’t much different that Romney.
I thought you had me on ignore. LOL!