So what do the trial lawyers and judges really think? here are a few of the quotes from some famous lawyers and judges.

Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court Justice

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

F. Lee Bailey

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they’re wrong. usually they’re not smarter.

Chief Justice Warren Burger

ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day … these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession.

Fred Rodell, Professor of Law, Yale University

It is lawyers who run our civilization for us - our governments, our businesses, our private lives… We cannot buy a home or rent an apartment, we cannot get married or try to get divorced, we cannot leave our property to our children without calling on the lawyers to guide us. To guide us, incidentally, through a maze of confusing gestures and formalities that lawyers have created… The legal trade, in short, is nothing but a high-class racket.

Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Roy Cohn

I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Adlai E. Stevenson

In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.

Warren E. Burger

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Law Professor Joseph G. Allegretti

I defended about one hundred forty people for murder in this country and I think in all of the cases I received just one Christmas card from all of these defendants.

Judge Irving Kaufman

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

Man detained briefly while representing DWI client.

By Steven Kreytak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Friday, March 21, 2008

An Austin defense lawyer was jailed last week after being accused of making a lewd gesture at a judge while in court representing a client on charges of driving while intoxicated.

Adam Reposa, 33, was held in contempt of court by County-Court-at-Law Judge Jan Breland for his “intentional and contumacious conduct during the court’s review of the plea bargain offer to his client before jury trial.”

Reposa, who could not be reached for comment, “made a simulated masturbatory gesture with his hand while making eye contact with the court in response to an objection by the state to his interference with the court plea bargain inquiry,” Breland wrote in a judgment of criminal contempt of court filed March 11.

Breland, who also could not be reached, noted that she and prosecutor Richard Gentry witnessed the gesture and “acknowledged so on the record.”

Breland ordered Reposa taken into custody and returned to court the next morning for a sentencing hearing. Handwritten on the bottom of the order above the initials “JB” was: “No bond without my approval.”

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Now this my friends, is some funny shite! It’s sad that the US Government goes unchecked for so long that we end up making animations about how they are screwing the American Public, for entertainment. Here, screw me, then I’ll make a funny movie about it so you can get a laugh!

Some Silly Laws in good old California as told to by a fairly smart dude! Let’s take a little trip down taxpayer lane and see what our good hard earned cash is spent on by the government. Basicaly as I see it, they make up new laws so that they have plenty of justification for paying themselves $200,000 a year. No new law making, no jobs for lawmakers! Due you really think that there are laws that just “slipped the mind” of lawmakers over the past 200 years. NO, THEY KEEP SPENDING OUR MONEY, TO HAVE JOBS!

texas dildo law 5 dildo limit or a felony">Texas, a bit reminiscent of Iran nowadays, still seems to be arguing morality laws. Many people have heard about the texas 5 dildo law. In Texas, you are only allowed to have 5 dildos for medical reasons, if you have 6, then it is a felony. You gotta love “freedom” in Texas. So what is Texas so afraid of… well the theory is politicians may in fact believe that their own wives may come to like the dildos more than them. Having seen and heard some of these “GREAT” lawmakers, I can see why they are scared of losing the wife to a piece of plastic. a new definition of “penal code” for Texas republicans.

You can check out the Dildo Diaries to watch great lawmaking

Years after GWB left the Governor’s mansion, the Great State of Texas seems to continue to be obsessed with dildos. I reported on Feb. 13 in Texas Dildo Law Goes Limp that the Fifth Circuit struck down Texas’ Saudi-esque “obscene devices” law.If you have 6 or more dildos, Texas declares that you have ‘intent to distribute‘ and therefore you are a felon. If you have less than 6 then you are merely a hobbyist, and therefore things are okay.well then, that makes sense to me.

So Joe goes to prison, convicted felon… asks his fellow inmates “what are they in here for?” he gets… I robbed an old lady, I killed my wife, I got my 20th DUI. Joe looks at his peers and tells them “I got busted with a gift pack that had 6 dildos in it” It was mail order, the ad said 5, but the company threw one in for free. Damned out of state companies.

Texas politicians or kings of YOUR bedroom, buy 6 rubber dongs and be a felon for life.

Naturally, the State of Texas simply can not survive if dildos are sold in that state. Therefore, a bunch of small-government republicans have banded together to waste the taxpayers’ money seeking a rehearing en banc.

The brief is the same old “the sky is falling” bollocks — as if every time you touch your genitals, an angel burns to death.

Now I also found this quote somewhere.

“A federal appeals court has overturned the Texas statute outlawing sex toy sales, leaving Alabama as the state with the strictest ban on such devices.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, punishable by up to two years in jail, violated the Constitution’s 14th Amendment on the right to privacy.”

Point is.. There MUST be better things to waste taxpayer money on than arguing over how many rubber toys one may have! WTF people!!!

And you gotta love laws that no one has any way to enforce. A great waste of public funds for this mighty state.

more views on the absurd texas law

From the Heritage Foundation 

Many states require about 1,700 hours of training to become a licensed paramedic, six weeks of training to be a firefighter, and 10 weeks of training to become a police officer. So a job requiring 3,200 hours of training must be even more complicated or dangerous, right?

Actually, that’s what some states require to become a licensed hair braider. And that’s just one example of the many ridiculous obstacles faced every day by American entrepreneurs. Worst of all, accidentally violating such regulations can turn well-meaning small-business owners into criminals.

Legislators may believe they are protecting their constituents when they write these laws, but often, they do so only after being prodded by special-interest groups intent on stifling competition from startup businesses. Many business licensing laws, in practice, do nothing to protect consumers and actually raise prices and reduce quality. And in most states, failing to navigate the licensing bureaucracy is a criminal offense. Business owners who don’t comply, even accidentally, can be bankrupted with fines or even thrown in jail.

In Utah, the Pleasant Grove City Police arrested eight people for “soliciting without a license.” Soliciting what? Drugs? Prostitution? No. They were soliciting for customers to buy vacuum cleaners. Police rounded up the otherwise law-abiding door-to-door salesmen for violating a city code requiring them to provide fingerprints and post a $1,000 bond. All that just to sell vacuums. They sued the city, arguing that the licensing regime violates their rights to freedom of speech and to earn a living.

In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit agreed with the salesmen. The city claimed that the law was not about harassing and discouraging businesspeople, but was intended only to prevent fraud and burglaries. During a hearing, however, a Pleasant Grove City police captain admitted that the fingerprints required for a license never had been used — not to prosecute a crime or for anything else. In reality, the fingerprinting and expensive bond were just ways to interfere with a legitimate business by creating time-consuming and complicated procedures with criminal penalties for intentional or even accidental non-compliance.

Is it really a good idea to use scarce criminal-justice resources to go after well-meaning and productive citizens? Small-business entrepreneurs certainly don’t think so, and some of them are fighting back.

For many urban women, particularly immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, hair braiding is a great way to earn a living. It requires almost no initial investment, can pay a relatively high hourly wage and allows a flexible schedule. As is often the case, some established businesses are less than enthusiastic about the upstart competition. In fact, established full-service salons have pressured some state regulators to go after hair braiders for failing to secure a cosmetology license — despite the fact that hair braiders don’t use chemicals, razors or any of the other potentially hazardous tools used in a regular salon.

In Mississippi, the law required 3,200 hours of coursework just to apply for a license. Any violation was considered a crime. Hair braiders challenged the law in court in 2004 and won, requiring the law to be rewritten with more freedom and less economic protectionism. California law required at least nine months of full-time study at a cosmetology school, which could cost more than $5,000. A court in California found that the licensing requirement was irrational as applied to hair braiding and struck it down.

The Louisiana legislature has taken silly and abusive regulations even further. Want to open a flower shop in the Bayou State? First you’ll need a state-issued florist license. And to get the license, you must pass the state florist test, which just happens to be graded by established florists. It is no surprise that the exam is totally subjective and the pass rate is lower than the Louisiana state bar exam.

The justification for economic regulation is always the “public good,” but in many cases it is clear that lawmakers are simply protecting established businesses from competition. No one should be branded a criminal for practicing floristry without a license. Salesmen should not be treated like felons in the course of trying to earn an honest living for their families. Women who want to braid hair for a living deserve the freedom to do so without being crushed by senseless regulation. Instead, governments should celebrate the distinctly American entrepreneurial spirit and encourage the creation of new businesses.

There certainly are occupations that call for high training standards and regulatory oversight, although criminal law never should be used for accidental violations. But hair braiders and vacuum cleaner salesmen are not paramedics or pilots. When it comes to everyday Americans trying to do everyday jobs — like, say, floristry — government should “let 1,000 flowers bloom.”

Trent England is a legal policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation. Claire Wendt is a law student at Pepperdine University and was the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation intern at Heritage (heritage.org).

The silly stupid and absurd beer, wine and liquor laws in the US. so cheers and enjoy the humor.

This is a long one so be prepared and make sure you have a beer on hand, you may need it after reading this shit.

Sit back, crack the beer, read the beer prayer on the left and now begin to read the silly and stupid beer and wine laws below.. be careful to not spill.
The Silly Beer Laws by U.S. State in the list below are, by no means, a complete list of laws governing beer or alcoholic beverages. They are merely a broad illustration of the range of regulations covered, from the ridiculous to the mundane.

Alabama
Cities and counties can choose to be “wet” or “dry” - 26 of 67 counties do not allow alcohol sales…A statewide ban on draft beer sales requires that cities and counties must take Legislative action to lift the ban in each jurisdiction. However, a section of the law allows draft beer “in rural communities with a predominantly foreign population. . . in accordance with the habit and customs of the people of any such rural community”…Twenty-three counties and cities have abolished the ban against Draft Beer in their districts…Likewise, Sunday alcohol sales are only allowed if a referendum has been passed…Ban on off-premises sale of alcohol on Sundays.

Alaska
In Fairbanks, AK, it is illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to moose.

Arizona
An obviously intoxicated person can only stay for 30 minutes at the establishment that recognized he was drunk.

Arkansas
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays

California
It is illegal for producers of alcoholic beverages to list the names of retailers or restaurants that sell their products, whether it is in advertising or in newsletters…It is illegal to display alcoholic beverages within five feet of a cash register in a store that sells both alcohol and motor fuel…A server can be convicted of selling alcohol to a minor if the minor uses a false or altered ID to obtain the alcohol.

Colorado
It is illegal to ride a horse while under the influence…It is also illegal 1) for liquor stores to sell food and 2) for food stores to sell alcohol with an ABW greater than 3.2%. Beer with 3.2% ABW is called “low point beer.” Beer with higher alcohol levels can be purchased in liquor stores…The sale of alcohol is prohibited on Election Day….Ban on off-premises sale of alcohol on Sundays.

Connecticut
Beer cannot be sold after 8 p.m…Pharmacists who use alcohol in compounding prescriptions must have a specific state license to do so.

Delaware
Allows parents, guardians, or legal age spouse to furnish alcohol to minors in the private home of any said family member for medical, religious, or educational purposes.

Florida
1965 Law requires containers to be one of four sizes: 8, 12, 24 or 32 ounces only, prohibiting craft brewers from packaging in 22 ounce “bombers”, 750ml bottles, or any number of European style bottles.

Georgia
The 1935 Law prohibiting the sale of beer having more than 6% ABV was repealed in 2004…Bans off-premises sales of alcohol on Sundays.

Hawaii
Underage purchase of alcohol is prohibited except for law enforcement purposes…Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

Idaho
Possession of an unregistered, unlabeled keg is punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000 or prison for 6 months.

Illinois
A person commits a “social host offense” by renting a hotel or motel room for the purpose of or with the knowledge that such room be used for the consumption of alcoholic beverages by underage persons.

Indiana
It is illegal for liquor stores to sell milk or cold soft drinks. They can, however, sell soft drinks at room temperature….It is illegal to carry an alcoholic drink from the bar to a table - this can only be done by a waiter or waitress…Drinks “on the house” are illegal…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Iowa
In Ames, Iowa, it is still illegal for men to have 3 sips of beer while they are in bed with their wives…It is illegal to “run a tab” in Iowa.

Kansas
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays…Underage consumption of alcohol is illegal except for cereal malt beverages (defined as any fermented but undistilled liquor brewed or made from malt or from a mixture of malt or malt substitute, but not including any such liquor which is more than 3.2 % ABW).

Kentucky
It is illegal to send a bottle of beer, wine, or spirits as a gift to anyone in Kentucky - this can result in a 5-year term in prison…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Louisiana
Underage possession of alcohol is illegal except when in a private residence, and furnished by a parent, guardian or legal aged spouse for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

Maine
It is illegal to possess an unlabeled, unregistered keg - punishment is a maximum fine of $500 and/or time in prison. It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000 or 6 months in prison.

Maryland
Alcohol beverage writers must be certified as experts by a state agency in order to be eligible to receive product samples. The beverage writer can only receive three bottles per brand.

Massachusetts
In Woburn, MA, it is illegal to walk around with a beer in your hand.

Michigan
Prohibited to serve alcohol on Christmas Day, including at restaurants serving holiday buffets…Local laws exist too - one town prohibits brewpubs from selling beer-to-go…It is illegal for a minor (person under 21) to give an alcoholic beverage as a gift to anyone, even if they are of legal drinking age…It is illegal to allow restaurant diners to take an unfinished bottle of any alcoholic beverage home with them.

Minnesota
It is specifically NOT a crime to be inebriated in public…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Mississippi
A parent, guardian, or legal age spouse may furnish beer or wine to minors over the age of 18.

Missouri
In St. Louis, MO, it is illegal to sit on a street curb and drink beer from a bucket…It is illegal for any person under 21 to handle household trash with even one empty alcohol beverage container in it…In Natchez, MO, it is illegal to serve elephants beer or other alcoholic beverages.

Montana
It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $500 or 6 months in prison…A parent or guardian can furnish alcohol to a minor in a non-intoxicating amount for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

We are moving on to the N’s now… wow, thats like 1/2 way through this list… check out the beer mug below and make sure it does not resemble you.

Nebraska
It is illegal for a bar to sell beer unless it is simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Nevada
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

New Hampshire
You cannot be served an alcoholic drink unless you are sitting down.

New Jersey
If convicted of “Driving Under the Influence” (DUI), you lose the privilege of applying for personalized license plates for a period of three years.

New Mexico
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

New York
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

North Carolina
“Private Club Rule” applies - to sell liquor, an establishment must also sell a set percentage in food sales, unless they are a Private Club. To join a “private club,” you must fill out an application and wait three days to pick up a club card. State regulated liquor stores are not permitted to advertise.

North Dakota
Beer and pretzels cannot be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.

Ohio
It is illegal to get a fish drunk.

Oklahoma
Beer stronger than 3.2% must be purchased in state liquor stores…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Oregon
Underage purchase of alcohol is prohibited except for law enforcement purposes…Underage possession of alcohol is illegal except when in a private residence, and a parent or guardian is present or consents and it is for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

Pennsylvania
Patrons must buy a case at a beer distributor…Six-packs must be purchased at a tavern - exception is the grocery store with eat-in café who has an E license…It is illegal to be intoxicated in public…It is illegal to have a previously opened container of any alcoholic beverage in your car…Parents or guardians cannot furnish an alcoholic beverage to their child under any circumstance, including within their private residence.

Rhode Island
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

South Carolina
Private Club Rule - It is illegal to sell alcoholic beverages on a Sunday unless you are a Private Club.

South Dakota
Underage possession of alcohol is allowed for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

Tennessee
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Texas
The Encyclopedia Brittanica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making homebrew…In Lefors, TX, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer while standing…In Houston, TX, it is illegal to purchase beer after midnight on Sunday, but it is legal to purchase beer anytime on Monday, including just after midnight on Sunday…It is illegal to sell less than 100 ml of alcohol in Texas, making it illegal to sell less than 2 mini-bottles (airplane-size) in one purchase…In McKinney, TX, you can be arrested for “intent to distribute in a dry city” if you are caught with anything over a case (24 pack)…Texas also has a “Private Club Rule” allowing members to legally drink alcoholic beverages in dry counties.

Utah
3.2% ABW (4% ABV) limit on draft beer, preventing craft brewers in the state from creating a full range of beer styles…To get an alcoholic beverage at a restaurant, you must either bring your own, or you must buy a “set-up” and have them pour it…However, you can buy beer at a gas station or convenience store…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Vermont
It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $1000 or a prison sentence of 2 years.

Virginia
If an intoxicated driver is stopped in Virginia Beach, VA, for Driving Under the Influence (DUI), and you are a drunk passenger, you can also be charged with a DUI.

Washington
A grocery store licensee may sell malt liquor in containers no larger than five and one-half gallons.

West Virginia
It is illegal to furnish alcohol to minors except by relatives by blood or marriage.

Wisconsin
An underage person is prohibited from knowingly possessing an alcoholic beverage unless accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or spouse who has attained the legal drinking age.

Wyoming
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited…Underage purchase of alcohol is illegal except for law enforcement purposes.

After reading this long ass list of crazy, silly and just stupid beer laws… you may relate to this great image.

Lynchings were never real laws, they were illegal, but back than the mob was the law. Here are some of the craziest excuses I have ever heard for punishment, much less capitol punishment.

These are all reasons people, mostly black men, got lynched in the Southern United States at the turn of the last century.

The reasons seem just insane, if you read the lists you run into many men lynched for such capitol crimes as:

• Talking back
• Cursing a white woman
• Entering a woman’s room
• Mistaken Identity (yes, that is a reason on one of them, those fools could not even come up with a better cover story than just Whoops!)
• Outraging a girl
• Bad language
• Race prejudice (haha, go figure that one)
• Voodooism
• Arguing
• Being a foreign worker (Say what? never knew working was a crime)
• Dangerous Character
• Violated Ferry law
• Attempted a train wreck (huh?)
• An awful lot of just pissing off some white woman
• and here is a great one: The daughter of a murderer / son of a murderer.
• The Unknown Outrageous act (thats always a sure thing… you see… its unknown, but someone did say it was outrageous! It was so outrageous, they could not even remember what it was)
  
• Angered the Klan

I look at that list in astonishment. Its just amazing how little value was placed on life not all that long ago where a mob would lynch a person for something as trivial as “insulting a woman”… Hell, if they kept that shit up, 2/3 of the male population would have been hanging from a tree before ever reaching puberty.

Here are the links to the full lists of Lynchings in the Southern US.

Louisianna Lynchings

florida hangings and lynchings in 1900's">Florida Lynchings

Georgia Lynchings

Mississippi Lynchings

Tennessee Lynchings

alabama and the south">Alabama Lynchings

and here is one of the worst excuses for a lynching in the great state of Kentucky for an entire family… babies and all

Mrs. Walker lynched for race prejudice

Mr. Walker lynched for cursing a white woman

3 walker children for race prejudice

Daughter and son walker lynched for race prejudice

and lastly baby walker lynched for race prejudice.

From how it reads it looks like 3 generations. Just sick

WOW… I never knew babies could be prejudiced against white folk since they can’t yet talk.