Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Monday, September 11, 2006 12:12:14 AM
On the Aaron Harber show this past friday, September 8, 2006, Justice Breyer commented when asked about public participation in government:
"And we have technology today. The internet can help. You can write articles. What do you think Hamilton did? Hamilton and Madison, when they got angry about something, they wrote an article, and they put it in good form, they tempered their anger, and they put it in a convincing way and they got it published. That's easier today, I think, than it ever was. So the basic task of participation is to formulate a view and to convince your friends, and have them convince others.
Of course, he wasn't speaking of my effort because he doesn't know of it, but he was directly encouraging people to do exactly what I am doing. I have formulated the view that the legal ethics system is corrupt in the sense that it protects lawyers and judges better than it protects the public, and that it can be reformed. I have thought long and hard about how to effect those reforms, and now I have to convince my friends, and have my friends convince others. No small task, but with persistence, possible.