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Posted By: Chad

But I'd like to throw my support in favor of the lawyers. Governments and corporations and such are really in business for themselves and, frankly, we need protection from them. Lawyers and the courts are the only protection we have. It amazes me how this obvious truth gets continually obfuscated by those who would benefit from weaker individual rights.

For example, anecdotally, my brother an I had an argument about open courtrooms. He was in favor of excluding the media from trials and he used the Michael Jackson and OJ trials as examples why this should happen. So I asked him to list for me all the trials he can remember being reported in the last calendar year. He could only think of three. So, for the sake of 3 trials that the media has turned into circuses, he was willing to forgo one of our most fundamental protections of liberty. And he's a hell of a smart guy, too. Things are getting scary.

Anyway, when my Oakland Oaks Billy Martin and my Toleteros Wilmer Fields and Luke Easter come in the mail, I'll be happy again.

--Chad