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