Comedian charged: Not funny

There, I said it. I too believe we should scrap lawyers. That way the only people who could possibly receive a fair trial, or for that matter enter safe contracts, are those with sufficient education and financial heritage to have studied law themselves. Lawyers (and maybe a few dalkeith types with broad educations) would comfortably be elevated to a ruling class, able to exercise the rights and liberties vital to a democratic society, while the other plebs can sit beneath them as state authorities ransack their houses without warrant, pepper spray them to the ground and then charge them for assault when they grab the copper's leg on the way down (no joke, seen that numerous times), and get ripped off by unfair employment contracts that create illegal working conditions because they don't have the means or knowledge to do anything about it:-). I don't spend a lot of my time 'lawyering' these days, having many years ago quit the mainstream legal profession to focus more on acting, but the time I do spend is with a non-profit community centre dedicated to providing legal representation to persons with mental illness, mainly in criminal law, discrimination and involuntary detention matters. And you can criticise the legal system and the profession that represents and advises people about all you like, but you're talking out of your rectum until you've been part of a socio-demographic segment that desperately needs the protection of those legal rights. People sit there as white, mentally healthy and middle-class completely oblivious that pretty much the whole political and legal system of this nation is dedicated to preserving their sorry bludging existence. Property laws, tax structures, legislation that makes 'black and poor' crimes like home burglary mandatory jail sentences while 'white and rich' crimes like speeding (yes, that's right - it's a MUCH bigger killer than burglary ever could be, but you don't think of yourself as a crim now do you?) are just acceptable mistakes. Folk like you never need legal rights or protections - because you OWN the darn system to start with! Of course civil liberties mean nothing - you can drive 80km/hr in your car endangering more lives than any burgler, but if the police pick you up you'll just get a ticket and be sent on your way with a polite wave. If your kid gets caught with pot (which he probably won't be - chances of a cop pulling over and searching a white kid in a nice car are just about nil) he won't need the protection that comes from upholding the rules regarding warrants/strip-searches/interrogations - the cops will just issue a summons because he's just a naughty kid out of the socio-demographic group that they're paid to protect. You try that as an aboriginal, or just plain poor, and once you've been pepper-sprayed out of your vehicle you might have a bit more respect for those 'legal technicalities'. And those pesky lawyers and their red tape holding back business huh? You and I will never be refused a job, or sacked, or denied services because of our race or disability. We don't NEED lawyers advising us of our legal rights - again we OWN the system to start with, why would we need protection in it? Fine that's the way the world works and I'm already sounding like yet another whining lefty - but when you talk about upholding legal rights as being a barrier to justice, why don't we come straight out and acknowledge that this is true only because we also own the media that decides what justice is, and that redefines the concept to make sure that the popular conception of justice = the protection of white middle/upper-class australia.