Lawyers Are Important Too!

During a recent award cermony lawyer Gerry Spence, was awarded the CAOC Lifetime Achievement Award. Had this to say.....

"We have to redefine who we are: We are the most important people in America,"
"There is no other profession in America that fights for freedom, that fights for what America is about, that fights for justice for ordinary people."

Mmmmm, the most important people in America? To eloborate and leave no doubt to what his beliefs are....

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?"
"We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."

Perhaps he has drawn a comparison to doctors because trial lawyers appear bent on destroying the free market in health care and forcing the country into a single (government) source system. Yes they are prepared to kill the golden goose, to make it financially infeasible for people to become doctors. Don't these folks realize that they will destroy a revenue stream? Spence drones on ........

"There is so few of us and the responsibility and the opportunity and the need is so great,"

So few, aren't there more lawyers today than all of time deceased? What the world could use is a few less lawyers and a few more industriaists. Spence continues on and on ....

"I want you to be proud you are a trial lawyer," he said. "It isn't what we call ourselves; it's what we do."

Yes, we want you to be proud of yourelves, because nobody else loves you. Believe it or not Mr. Spence some people do love their doctors, nobody loves their lawyer, unless they are married.

Taking shots at the current exective branch, Spence says this about the Vice President .....

"He is a man who has been more responsible for more of the destruction of the American Dream, more of the destruction of the myth of justice, has destroyed more of what we search for and fight for and pride ourselves in as being American than any other human being on the face of the earth,"

Since when is the American dream in the best interests of a trial lawyer? Spence demonizes a man who has had to courage to speak out against the trial lawyers excess and propose tort reform.

I wish that this self-aggrandizing, narcissistic jackass could have spent some time in a real profession like being a soldier, building cars, making steel, dairy farming or building houses. Then he might have enough sense not to treat his customer base like lawyers are the shepherds to salvation. The customer base knows better, they just don't have the keys to the system. The lions share of lawyers are only interested in the well being of a citizen if there significant payment potential. I do not suggest that people should work for free, but if a lawyer smells a source of money he will do his best to create a suit regardless of injury, right or wrong. Gerry Spence tells fellow lawyers to feel good about what they are doing, f-u, lawyers live off the productivity of people who produce and create, they serve no purpose other than to redistribute wealth for a cut.

Gerry Spence is such a colossal dickhead.
And what's with that damned jacket he always wears?

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