[Iron Eagle]

Thanks -- I don't know if I am a legal eagle. It seems I don't know a damn thing about the law. To think, instead of all that education, years of trianing, and actually working to represent clients, all I really needed was a few hours to read this thread, and I would know everything about the law. :-)

So far, we have the natural rights folks. We have dozens of quotes attributed to people and justices. (Some are really great, because they actually pre-date the ratification of the Constitution!!!).

My favorites are the ones who actually take offense to someone having a law degree, and then treating the same as a disqualifier from the discourse.

Anyway, this is always fun. That's why I keep coming back. The best part is, most of these "normal" people spend all this time trying to figure out why they don't get picked for juries!! It's a holler!! Anyway, its nice to bump into someone who is lucid and friendly. Hello back to you.

[ProudArmyWife]

Stand your ground Iron Eagle! I have my views, but I haven chosen to remain silent on this issue. While it is true some people retain "Cracker Jack J.D.'s", most just babble to babble. It is entertainment! :)

[archy]

Thanks -- I don't know if I am a legal eagle. It seems I don't know a damn thing about the law. To think, instead of all that education, years of training, and actually working to represent clients, all I really needed was a few hours to readthis thread, and I would know everything about the law.:-)

Well, an additional three or four year tour as a light weapons infantryman with the Army or Marines gives you a clearer picture of your constitutional duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, as well.

Other service carries the same obligation, if not quite to the same degree of specialization in the finer points of such jurisprudence, particularly those who enlisted for or otherwise arranged other alternative sinecures, though they too may have been of equal service to their country.

The attrition rate in that *lawschool* is uneven, but sometimes is particularly high. There is in Washington a wall of names of those who during the 1960s and '70s found that out firsthand, and who might testify as to the price of attending such courses if they could.

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