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(GO back) The MYTH, the business of lawyers (to profit) exposed by Charles Dickens. Same today. | 190 comments | Create New Account
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(GO back) The MYTH, the business of lawyers (to profit) exposed by Charles Dickens. Same today.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 08:46 AM EDT
Same thing happened during Charles Dicken's day. That is why he wrote "Bleak House"

Bleak House Quotes:

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations".

"The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings".

"Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless".

"This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give-- who does not often give--the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!"

These patent cases go around in circles avoiding the truth, same as the case in Dicken's Bleak House. The writings of Dickens exposed and educated the people of the failings of the court, and in time, the court was forced to change, as it was seen as corrupt.

Is the current patent cases, continuing with no end in sight, a sign of the same corruption? When will the honest in the system wake up and seek to correct the continuing wrong?

As, when, will the world's legal systems come to grips with the reality about the MYTH in the middle, about computing and expose the truth, that it is just MATH?

Where it is all obvious (MATH), and all that is binary (MATH), and all the the binary logic (MATH) is as old as the hills themselves...! Where it is exposed that only the chips, or the hardware, are the only thing in modern day that is truly new. Designed, only to make, it all happen faster - so fast it almost seems like magic (so, those who don't see the trick are fooled into thinking, it to be, what it is not).

IT IS JUST MATH, period.

It is also obvious, in every way.

But, there is no money in that case. Nope, no billable hours, just the understanding that it is, what it is.

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