{"id":17144,"date":"2016-01-31T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17144"},"modified":"2016-01-31T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:47:42","slug":"legal-reform-learning-from-the-mistakes-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17144","title":{"rendered":"Legal Reform \u2013 Learning From the Mistakes of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/archives\/42745\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Reform \u2013 Learning From the Mistakes of the Past<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/armstrongeconomics-wp\/2014\/08\/Kings_Bench_1808.jpg\" alt=\"Kings_Bench_(1808)\" width=\"471\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Typically, the first thing society addresses which sparks a revolution is the abuse of justice. Shakespeare\u2019s famous quote about the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers is not actually about lawyers. You have to understand the context. Private individuals were\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0allowed to have lawyers in those days \u2013\u00a0<strong>only<\/strong>\u00a0the king. It was not until the American Revolution that the Constitution gave you a\u00a0<strong>right<\/strong>\u00a0to counsel, which the Supreme Court has effectively taken away giving you court appointed counsel working for the court who have achieved a near perfect conviction rate of 99%. Court appointed lawyers are a joke to put it mildly. They are paid $90 and hour generally compared to $600-$1,000 for private lawyers.\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s famous quote comes from a rebellion:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DICK:<\/strong>\u00a0The first thing we do, let\u2019s kill all the lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cade:\u00a0<\/strong>Nay, that I mean to do.<\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/2henryvi\/2henryvi.4.2.html\">Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71\u201378<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Shakespeare\u2019s phase had nothing to do with killing general lawyers, it was the king\u2019s\u00a0<strong>PROSECUTORS<\/strong>\u00a0who were corrupt. Jake Cade led the second Tax Revolt in England after the Black Death and the king\u2019s \u201clawyers\u201d (prosecutors) were the ones aggressively seizing homes and prosecuting people wrongly at that time. Hence, history repeats and all the Constitutional precautions have been eliminated by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Otis-James.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-31898 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/223x278xOtis-James.jpg.pagespeed.ic.A-WLYTzrhO.jpg\" alt=\"Otis-James\" width=\"223\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The legal case which became the seminal beginning of the American Revolution was\u00a0<strong>Entick v. Carrington and Three Other King\u2019s Messengers<\/strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em>reported at length in 19 Howell\u2019s State Trials 1029, was the start of the American Revolution also based upon abuse of the king\u2019s agents. The action, dated November 1762, was for\u00a0trespassing\u00a0and interfering with the plaintiff\u2019s dwelling by breaking open his desks and boxes and searching and examining his papers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Reform \u2013 Learning From the Mistakes of the Past Typically, the first thing society addresses which sparks a revolution is the abuse of justice. Shakespeare\u2019s famous quote about the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers is not actually about lawyers. You have to understand the context. 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