[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> It's the law!-Or is it the money?

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

Both Bushes - H & W were at Yale law school, I believe. I don't 
know whether the junior graduated, though, or got his degree 
'honorably'.

I agree that there is the 'man behind the curtain' and that 'lawyers' 
are just 'devil advocates'. The situation is, however, that the 'man 
behind the curtain' is, obviously, elusive. He tricks us into believing 
that he does not exist. Pleads fifth amandement (in the U.S.) or 
article six (in Ireland) or whatever - while he pushes his advocates 
to the front line.

I basically wanted to draw a parallel between the now defunct 
Eastern bloc communist system (example: Yugoslavia) and the 
very much alive Western bloc capitalist one (example: USA). My 
feeling is that lawyers in the later system serve the same role of 
being the connective tissue of the system, that the communist 
party members were in the former system. I don't think that 
lawyers per se are bad people because of that. Some of them are 
actually very good people and my very good friends - just as in 
former Yugoslavia there were members of the communist party that 
were honest, intelligent, hardworking and humorous, that wanted to 
make things better for everybody. They failed, though. And the 
'man behind the curtain' had the best of them.

And now many of the people in former Yugoslavia, particularly in 
Serbia, are blaming the 'man behind the curtain', or, rather, the 
'ogre from the tunnel' (Blagojevic's film "Pretty Villages, Pretty 
Flames") for their ill-fortune. But the man is so elusive - because he 
lives inside us. Inside each one of us - lawyers and/or party 
members just have more responsibility how they will respond to his 
urges, because their collective actions can affect the given 
societies much more than actions of the rest of us.

Best Regards,
ivo


Ivo Skoric
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New York NY 10029
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