Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:33:01 -0500
From: kvc@compuserve.com ("Kent Van Cleave")
Subject: [lpaz-repost] Fw: Persistent grassroots activist may have started movement to end legal monopoly
To: lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com ("lpaz-repost")
Way cool stuff!
Kent
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>Subject: [Lis-LEAF] Persistent grassroots activist may have started
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>to end legal monopoly
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>Will Florida be the first state to disembowel the Bar?
>http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20010410.htm
>Persistent grassroots activist may have started movement to end legal
>monopoly
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>MIAMI LAKE, Fla. -- By persistently distributing his bumper stickers and
>pamphleteering in courthouses all over Florida, Robert Bertrand of the
>National Congress for Legal Reform has created a critical mass of public
>opinion that could result in the state decommissioning its Bar association.
>"We have started a movement that is spreading all over the country," said
>Bertrand.
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>Bertrand, 61, who started his crusade in 1986 when friends committed
>suicide after lawyers took everything in their divorces, has perfected the
>manner in which the public can be educated about how lawyers have taken
>over all three branches of government. He suggests that people read the
>Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers and the material on his
>websites. "Then go down and get a rubber stamp that says, 'Help Save
>America, Don't Vote for Lawyers' and stamp everything you send out in the
>mail," Bertrand advised.
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>Our nation, Bertrand explained, is suffering from an epidemic of "cognitive
>dissonance." Most people don't like lawyers, don't trust lawyers and tell
>lawyers jokes every chance they get -- but then they go down and vote them
>into public office.
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>James Madison, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, was charged
>with the task of creating a government with enough power to control, but
>not enough power to oppress. He stressed the importance of the separation
>of powers. He knew that a government where the same hands are allowed to
>make, interpret and enforce the laws is a government that will oppress its
>people. "The enemy is us, we have allowed lawyers to take over control of
>all three branches of government," said Bertrand.
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>Bertrand is considering the possibility of promoting a bill that would make
>reading the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers a requirement
>of graduation from public school. "Once students read the Federalist
>Papers, 95 percent of them agree that lawyers should not be allowed to
>occupy positions in the legislative or executive branches of government
>(the other five percent are the sons and daughters of attorneys). Bertrand
>even sent a comprehensive and extremely well documented report on the price
>Floridians have paid for lawyer-occupied government to all of the state's
>officers and legislators. He was in the capitol building when (attorney)
>Speaker of the House Tom Feeney stood up and said, "Legislators are guilty
>of treason."
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>His outburst was in response to a chronology contained in the report that
>details how, since 1938, lawyers have been systematically empowered to
>effectively "privatize" the judicial branch of state governmnt.
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>Bertrand's tactics have been having an impact. In 1986 when he began, 46
>percent of the state Senate was comprised of lawyers and 32 percent of the
>House of Representatives were lawyers. Today, 30 percent of the Senate and
>18 percent of the House are lawyers.
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>"I want ordinary citizens to see that there is hope -- that we can do
>something without spending a lot of money," said Bertrand.
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>Though many courthouses throughout the land post a sign that says, "We who
>labor here seek only the truth," lawyers, unlike citizens, can lie without
>fear of prosecution. If you provide evidence to the Bar that a lawyer has
>lied, the Bar will not prosecute him because lying is a lawyer's "stock in
>trade." State attorney generals and the U.S. Department of Justice will not
>prosecute lying lawyers for much the same reasons.
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>Several of the nation's most knowledgable people support Bertrand's
>efforts. Dr. Steve McGee, chief economist for the University of Texas in
>Austin has studies that show that every lwyer in the country costs the
>American people a minimum of $1 million in lost productivity. With a
>million lawyers, we can estimate that lawyers cost us $1 trillion annually,
>commented Bertrand.
>
>Dr. Gary Green, chief criminologist of the University of Georgia in Albany
>and author of the book, "Occupational Crime," has published the results of
>studies which prove that the legal profession is by far the most corrupt
>industry in America.
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>Dr. David Levy, president of the Children's Rights Council in Washington,
>D.C., states that 30 percent to 40 percent of the cost of medical care in
>this country is due to excessive, lawyer-induced litigation.
>
>But the role lawyers have had in the destruction of the American family is
>arguably their worst crime. "As goes the family, so goes the nation." The
>concept of the "no-fault" divorce was born in Russia to facilitate the
>creation of a communist state. The intention was to make divorce easy so as
>to destroy the family and thus gain control of individuals and their
>children. It worked beautifully in Russia. With the help of lawyers, it is
>working beautifully in the U.S.
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>"If we can educate people about the separation of powers and then remove
>lawyers from the legislative and executive branches of government, I
>believe a lot of the problems we have in our country will begin to fix
>themselves, " said Bertrand.
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>In a coming edition of The IO, we will significantly expand on this
>exciting and obviously doable arena of activism. If you want to know more
>about how Bertrand and his group have become so effective, call David
>Calhoun at (305) 534-1362. You can also read the material found at the
>following websites:
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>http://www.constitutionalguardian.com
>http://www.calhounreport.com
>http://www.americans4legalreform.com
>
>Liberty's Educational Advocacy Forum
>http://freedomlaw.com
>promotes "action that raises the cost of State violence for its
>perpetrators ... lay(ing) the basis for institutional change." [Noam
Chomsky
>]
>
>Dr. Tavel's Self Help Clinic and Sovereign Law Library
>http://drtavel.com/
>Not a high-tech law firm brochure, "because a lawyer is only
>as smart as you make him" [Max Katz] and
>"the Law . . . should be accessible to
>every man and at all times." [Franz Kafka]
>
>For Liberty in Our Lifetime,
>R.J. Tavel, JD
>
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