Klarinet Archive - Posting 000089.txt from 2003/06

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Law - sense or senseless?
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:28:09 -0400

Bill, you have more faith in the legislators than I do - I always
assumed it was cock up not conspiracy!

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Law - sense or senseless?

At 03:29 PM 6/2/2003 +0100, Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>This is getting seriously off topic but - having altered the subject
>heading - I'll answer anyway.
>
>Firstly your post implies that you think all lawyers are a waste of
>space. Even apart from any vested interest I may have this seems a bit
>harsh! But more seriously the law will only make sense when the
>legislature passes laws that make sense. It isn't - in the main - the
>judges who are responsible for making the Law make less sense... I
think
>they try to clarify the situation somewhat.
>
>I don't think any lawyer would disagree that the law should make sense,
>in the same way that I don't think that any lawyer would disagree that
>all should be equal before it. But we certainly don't live in an ideal
>world!!

I did not mean to denigrate lawyers themselves, but really the
legislators
who write the laws, many of whom ARE lawyers. It seems that they
deliberately write laws in as vague and ambiguous a manner as possible,
in
order to insure they will have jobs back at their old law firms when we
finally wise up and throw them out of office.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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