Why Study the Law?
Citizens, business owners, corporate officers, and others who work both in and out of the business world need to be educated in the law to protect themselves from legal predators, licensed lawyers, and government agents.
Legal knowledge has been too long monopolized by the organized bar. Lord Acton taught that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." This law of life has never been more true than with licensed lawyers, judges, and government agents.
Legal
Knowledge is Now Easily Available
The day is long gone when professional knowledge
could be learned only in a traditional residential graduate school
setting. With the advent of the internet, specialized knowledge in any
field is readily available to everyone. Some writers have referred to
this phenomenon as the "flattening of the world." All knowledge
is now available to all people. Legal knowledge in particular is no
longer controlled by an oligarchy of elitists. Now citizen elites have
access to the same knowledge sources as the licensed lawyer.
Anyone who can read, write, and speak is capable of learning the law and using
it to protect themselves, their family, and their business.
Increasing Complexities of Modern Life
We live in an increasingly complex society with more and more law and more and more government rules and regulations. While we may curse these complexities as violations of our freedom to be left alone, we must still live and work in this environment.
Every citizen needs to prepare for battle against licensed lawyers, government agents, and other legal predators. Knowledge of due process and civil procedure is essential to survival.
Legal combat is not the best
answer nor should it be the first resort for the resolution of conflict.
However, licensed lawyers and government agents are taught to use the legal
system to bully and intimidate the citizenry. We must be prepared.
Licensed Lawyers Need to be Managed and Controlled
If we must hire licensed lawyers to protect us even
for the smallest of matters, we will all end up mortgaging our homes and
futures to pay for the services of these mercenaries and sophists.
(A lawyer's hourly bill is the greatest work of fiction in the history of
literature).
Every decision we make, every purchase, everything we do has legal
implications. The things we say to others may one day throw us into the
maelstrom of the legal system. It is only a matter of time.
To protect ourselves from frivolous lawsuits,
licensed lawyers, and other predators, we must acquire legal knowledge
heretofore only available to traditional law school students.
The law is not the exclusive possession of the
organized bar, licensed lawyers, judges, or government. The law belongs
to all of society.