Thread: Spongebob and 'We are Family' Foundation
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Old 01-22-2005   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Spongebob and 'We are Family' Foundation
Two things:

First, the uproar over Spongebob and the We Are Family foundation is not from any lawyers, but rather from conservative Christian groups, voiced primarily by James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family. I agree the whole idea is ridiculous, but the lawyers are certainly not to blame for this one. See http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...onge.bob.reut/

Second,

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Those who use this quote as a slam against lawyers are as mistaken about their Shakespeare as they are about the integrity of the legal profession.

Read Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2, and you'll see the context in which the lawyer killing statement is made reveals that Shakespeare was paying a great complement to lawyers as protectors of freedom.

The quote is from Dick the Butcher, a follower of the anarchist Jack Cade. Shakespeare depicts Cade as "the head of an army of rabble and a demagogue pandering to the ignorant," who sought to overthrow the government. Shakespeare's acknowledgment that the first thing any potential tyrant must do to eliminate freedom is to "kill all the lawyers" is, indeed, a classic and well-deserved compliment to the legal profession.

Everyone's down on lawyers, until they need one.
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