Edwards, attorney bashing, and "junk lawsuits"

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How many of you are sick to death of the rightwing and corporate media's continual bashing of attorneys?
Many have been led astray.

I hope this post counters a bit of the brainwashing.

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I hate litigious ambulance chasers as bad as the next guy, but who exactly stands to profit by a smackdown on lawyers like John Boy? Well, he made a lot of money suing corporations. And while nobody talks about it, every goddamned one of those corps was represented by an army of slick lawyers of their own. Those slick lawyers acted in service to who? Ah - the have-mores. The corporate elites. Edwards and lawyers like him represent people who often (not always, to be sure, but often) have legitimate grievances against large corporate interests who have done them serious harm.

Put it this way - would you really want to face a world where there weren’t guys like John Edwards but there were companies like Halliburton, Enron, Adelphia, Qwest, WorldCom and Tyco being run by robbers and pillagers like Dick Cheney, Joe Nacchio, the Rigas crime family, Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Dennis Koslowski and Andrew Fastow?

When you hear one of Edwards’ detractors framing him as a slick lawyer, stop and ask yourself the real question - what does this person stand to gain by disempowering non-corporate litigators while doing nothing about the corporate side?

http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/07/16/edwards-launches-poverty-tour-have-mores-launch-the-lie-machine/


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And I will add that all the rhetoric about "junk lawsuits", from the Prez and rightwingers ignores completely the real culprit in driving up costs and that is corporate to corporate lawsuits. These types of suits are never mentioned.
The type of suits that get railed on and falsely blown out of proportion are the victim to corporate lawsuits.

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