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“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
.                                                        – Henry VI, Part II; Act 4, Scene 2

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I would like to invite Charles Waterstreet, Australian barrister and author, to take a long walk off of a short pier.

Seriously, it’s lawyers like him who give the good ones a bad name. I am sick and tired of people like Mr. Waterstreet putting pathetic drivel in print, acting as if they are somehow morally superior to the rest of us.

What he posted yesterday – which he no doubt hoped would be perceived as a touching human interest story about a mother’s “plight” – did nothing more than anger me beyond words.  I am outraged that he had the audacity to imply that a wrong was committed on the part of the justice system based on the ethnic background of this woman’s sons.

For shame, sir.

The title of Mr. Waterstreet’s Op-Ed piece (no comments were allowed – more’s the pity) was “A Mother’s Tale of Heartache“, and it ran in Sunday’s Sydney Morning Herald.

On Mother’s Day.

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