Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] A Land Without Lawyers
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:41:16 -0500

> Wow.  This is my kind of forum, what with me being a lawyer who uses
> Leica cameras without filters with black tape over red dots.
>
> Want to know what a country is like without lawyers?  A few years ago I
> spent some time in Moscow.  I assume it hasn't changed too much:
>
> Door knobs with points that stick out and rip clothes and body parts
> Steps that are slippery and dangerous
> Noxious fumes wherever
> Cars speeding and aiming at pedestrians
> Counterfeit products sold on street corners
> Trademarks that are meaningless; Stoli vodka that was probably battery
> acid
> Ponzi schemes masquerading as "banks"
>
> Does anyone here want to return to sweat shops, rotten food, unsafe
> drugs?
>
> Oh, yes, and what about blatant copying of photographs?
>
> Get the picture?

Yeah, but what does that have to do with lawyers?  Why isn't that about laws
and the enforcment there of?

Austin

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