ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (08/17/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-196500:ucbesvax:3000002:000:752 ucbesvax!turner Aug 17 02:16:00 1983 Dave Sherman, bless his soul, blaims the number of lawyers on the number of interest groups in our democratic society. But who helped those lobbyists present their cases as legally plausible? Lawyers. Who passed the legislation? By and large, local, state and federal assemblies consist of...lawyers. And all those laws, facilitated and promoted and ratified by lawyers--THAT'S why we need so many lawyers! We need lawyers 'cuz we need 'em, is what he's saying, in effect. An over-emotional but not comparatively inept argument for the social necessity of heroin dealers can be made with such logic. But let's give Dave another chance. Or (as I have had occasion to say to a lawyer or two), "could run that one by me again?" Michael Turner