Posted by
JP on Friday, February 15, 2008 9:56:09 AM
new @ ExileStreet
by Burt
Prelutsky [scriptwriter] 2/11/08
I
have a confession to make. On many occasions, I have been one of those
people who have ridiculed people for no other reason than that they’ve
been lawyers. I have generalized about them as if they were all a pack
of ambulance chasers or, worse yet, politicians -- or, worst of all,
ambulance-chasing politicians such as John Edwards.
But,
it’s just not fair and I apologize. After all, many lawyers serve a
useful function as they go about drawing up contracts and wills.
However, that being said, I wouldn’t want any of you to assume that
this is to be taken as my mea culpa to the entire legal profession.
There are still any number of law school grads who could teach snakes
how to crawl. There are still criminal defense attorneys who, while
paying lip service to the notion that everyone deserves the best
defense money can buy, will devote their lives to bamboozling juries
into letting rapists, pedophiles and serial killers, go free. [more]