[LAW-LIB:57894] Re: "How Modern Law Makes Us Powerless ..."

From: Janet Fischer (jfischer@ggu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2009 - 06:13:59 PST

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    Once again, it is time to settle in with a bucket of popcorn and watch the show.
    Janet

    Janet Fischer
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    >>> Ronald Huttner <rshutt@netspace.net.au> 01/28/09 5:57 AM >>>
    Please don't always refer to me as "Ronnie".
    It is a diminutive form of my name.
    And I only permit people that I like to call me "Ronnie".
    You are not a person that I like at all.
    And at no time have I permitted you to call me that.
    So please refrain.
    To you I am either "Ron" or "Ronald".

    Ron Huttner

    On 29/01/2009, at 12:48 AM, Leslie Germaine wrote:

    > It has been about 24 hours since I read the article, but I have no
    > recollection of the author advocating the position Ronnie suggests
    > below.
    >
    > --
    > Leslie Germaine
    > Solo Practitioner
    > Practicing Worldwide
    >
    > _______
    > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Ronald Huttner <rshutt@netspace.net.au
    > > wrote:
    > But if all laws and lawyers were abolished how would you continue to
    > be a "Solo Practitioner Practicing Worldwide" ?
    >
    >
    > Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
    > (Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal Researcher
    > Melbourne
    > Victoria
    > Australia
    >
    >
    >
    > On 28/01/2009, at 3:52 AM, Leslie Germaine wrote:
    >
    >> Here we stand, facing the worst economy since the Great Depression,
    >> and Americans no longer feel free to do anything about it. We have
    >> lost the idea, at every level of social life, that people can grab
    >> hold of a problem and fix it. Defensiveness has swept across the
    >> country like a cold wave. We have become a culture of rule
    >> followers, trained to frame every solution in terms of existing law
    >> or possible legal risk. The person of responsibility is replaced by
    >> the person of caution. When in doubt, don't.
    >>
    >> An important read.
    >>
    >> --
    >> Leslie Germaine
    >> Solo Practitioner
    >> Practicing Worldwide
    >> ________
    >> "We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by
    >> their government with the unalienable right to be taxed,
    >> subsidized, regulated, lectured, scolded, herded, harassed, and
    >> otherwise ruled in whatever ways work." -- Declaration of Dependence
    >>
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