Abstract

The three learned professions (medicine, law and divinity) have been reduced to law only, and "law" has become a pseudo-profession. Pretending justice with truth defined as judicial dogmatisms, legalistic absolutes determine all, as totalitarianism reigns supreme from soft drinks to using the word, “God.” At its best, government law is a capitalist business run by tyrants extorting citizens and preventing anarchy by organizing evil. As such, government law makes money for those in it by controlling the people under the guise of "common good" (which really is the "common good" for politicians, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, and, I must add, journalists). Law makes money for politicians above all and for special favored groups and organizations, for all colleagues in the law system, for all in the metastatic megabureaucracy, and for their dictating friends in the press and media. The law's only "constituency" is its megabureaucracy i.e., those receiving money from them as employee who will vote for them. Because of complexity and cost, “equality before the law” is pure grandiose law school hyperbole, as are almost all "respect the law" flimflams. Prosecutors and investigators only care about conviction-rate and routinely rule "guilty" before proof to the judge or jury and ignore mitigating possibilities.

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