[aruanan]

I had the wrong guy wanting to kill all the lawyers, but the right reason for his wanting to do so.

As we review Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 2, we find at this juncture in the story Jack Cade’s rebellion was picking up steam. Dick, the butcher, was a member of this rebellion. As Dick utters the famous words “first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” he was referring to ways that the rebellion might be successful. They recognized that to succeed, they must get rid of those who knew and enforced a system of laws. They did not want any learned and informed opposition to the rebellion they had planned against the government.

[angkor]

>>> They recognized that to succeed, they must get rid of those who knew and enforced a system of laws. They did not want any learned and informed opposition to the rebellion they had planned against the government. <<<<

Ha! Very well said.

That’s the type of mellifluous spin that’s conceivable only by a lawyer!