The Volokh Conspiracy
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On the Internet, Everyone Knows You're a Cat
Just Google "cat lawyer," and you'll see. Some are born famous, some achieve fame, and some have fame thrust upon them.
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See the Reason article on the horror story of this lawyer seeking to destroy a woman who was not attracted to him. Criminalize lawfare. End all self dealt lawyer immunities. The lawyer profession is the most toxic occupation in our country, 10 times more damaging than organized crime. It must be crushed to save the nation.
Daivd, tone down the rhetoric and just post the URL: https://reason.com/2021/02/10/zoom-cat-lawyer-rod-ponton-used-federal-agents-to-torment-former-lover-drug-raids-bogus-charges/
If half of that is true, he's something other than a cat.
Doctor. That rhetoric is toned down. Formal logic fully justifies massive violent attack on the hierarchy of the lawyer profession. I oppose violence. Formal logic has more certainty than the laws of physics.
Not cat, but cad.
Doctor: Do you think the problems of the lawyer profession are not really serious? Things should continue as they are perhaps, with our nation ruled by the stupidest, most ineffective, most rent seeking people of all.
Doctor: Here another use of lawfare by the lawyer, for sedition with life in prison.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/arrest-of-young-indian-activist-tied-to-thunberg-s-movement-stirs-outrage/ar-BB1dGJS8?ocid=msedgntp
This is the case where the federal mag required the defendant, at the request of the prosecutor, to recant allegations of police misconduct as a condition of bail. It's still not clear to me why this wasn't the crime of witness-tampering.
To be clear, this was at the request of the federal prosecutor, not the cat.
The importance of the comma. "I'm not a cat, lawyer" is not the same thing as "I'm not a cat lawyer."
"The cops picked up your client at the cathouse again."
But no one knows you're a dog.
Nobody knows I'm really a bear. OOPS....
Just remember, every catastrophe begins with cat.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston Churchill
Cats are proof that intelligent design is nonsense, since no intelligence would have designed them.
You win the feline posterior orifice award.
I prefer to call it the "rear exit portal."
I know a major Star Wars fan who has called it his "exhaust port".
Maybe the "lawyer dog" case would come out the other way now.
"Your honor, my client was clearly asking for a lawyer with a dog filter."
Everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at
Tell me, everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat
'Cause everything else is obsolete
(from Disney's The Aristocats)