Yo, dum dum:
While I represent my client in court or as you would say "bantering" against doctors who have killed or seriously injured their patient, there is an advocate representing the doc who, generally is more than an adequate attorney. Yes, medical student Freeze, I think the world is grey. I think there is good and bad in everyone. Yes, even in you and Wayne. Sometimes, its just a little hard to find.
I know its tough for your young mind to grasp, but at one time in this country the white majority did consider blacks as bad. You see, medical student Freeze, about 150 years ago there was this thing called slavery. Slavery was when white people owned black people and sold them kinda like you might sell several heffers grazing down there on the south forty.
And about 50 years ago, just a little south and east of your trailer, they had white only restrooms, drinking fountains and lordy, lordy, black people or niggers as they were called back then had to ride on the back of the bus. Yeah, us white people kinda sorta thought black people were bad, sub-human and chattel.
With reference to your next point of light, your president, Bush that is, has been trying to get this little old marriage amendment added on to the Constitution. By the way, the Constitution is this document that was written a long long time ago (like star wars) that your president likes to ignore sometimes and then likes to invoke some times. Whenever it fits.
Someone who doesn't want to give gays equal rights and wants to legislate into the bedroom by just adding an amendment to the Constitution that states that marriage can only be had between a man and a woman might be considered by some, I know this is a stretch, as thinking gays are bad.
That anti-gay marriage amendment will look good next to amendments guaranteeing freedoms of speech, assembly, unlawful searchs and seizures and right to a jury trial. Oh yeah for you gun owners, right to bear arms. Yep, right up there in importance. It amazes me how people cannot see what a sicko, psycho, religous whack job we have in the white house.
You said that me, John Edwards and lawyers are "... greediest of the greedy." You further state, in quite an elequent way I might add, that the legal profession is a joke and does a great disservice to our country. You also offer as a truism that I have gone off the deep end.
Well, medical student Freeze, I am certainly taken aback by your criticism and vitriolic (I like that word) narrative. Since your solution to the medical malpractice crisis trumped up by your bretheren, excuse me, future bretheren and Wayne and the insurance minions, is to outlaw the personal rights of your patients, destroy their right to a jury trial, and in effective, make you and your bretheren, there I go again, future bretheren, immune for there negligent acts, may I humbly offer this alternative rationale.
You say we (lawyers) greedy. Medical student Freeze, there are two types of greed. One, and I assume you are referring to this, is when a person wants something for nothing. However, MSF, may I call you MSF? The second type of greed, is when you are responsible for something and refuse to pay it. I like to call this one back door greed. In other words, you hord your money although you negligently injured someone.
This is what the "greedy" doctors and insurance oompanies have done by creating a crisis, blaming it on the lawyers, then passing laws which will allow them to keep there money although they have committed negligence. You see, MSF, some might consider you back door greedy.
Lastly, I, and I assume John Edwards, have never said we don't want to get paid for what we do. To prove that you, excuse me, there I go again for the third time, doctors are negligent it takes at a minimum $20k out of the lawyers pocket to hire experts cause you guys............................ (Eddie looking frustrated with himself) ................. doctors............ in a geographic area will not testify against one another. Its not the couple of hundred dollars that you or someone else on this board indicated that that was all it took to prosecute a case.
We sometimes, and I mean sometimes, get paid for what we do. You, ................. (Eddie slams down the keyboard in frustration, then picks it up and reconnects it to his Dell).............. doctors.............. on the other hand will always get paid for what you do. Sometimes less than you ....... (Eddie hitting his head against the monitor)..............doctors would like as you may have to take a reduced amount that Wayne and his bretheren pay, or Medicaid, but still you get paid.
I don't see you ............... (Eddie taking gun to his head)........... doctors doing a whole lotta pro bono work. Well, MSF, I know it must be comforting to see the world as black and white however, I hate to burst your bubble and remphasize that it is a lighter shade of grey. As I indicated there is good and bad in each one of us.
Hopefully, one day, you will provide a thread and/or post that would reveal some little light shining through the cracks that will show some good in you. To date, this has yet to happen. God bless the United States of America and God help your future patients cause based upon what you, your future bretheren, Wayne , Bush and the republicans are doing, no lawyer will be able too.
Eddie
