• playbook as old as Shakespeare

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 3 06:29:46 2025
    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers

    Analysis

    In the second scene of Act IV of Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), the
    playwright Shakespeare makes light of royal politics when Dick the
    Butcher suggests that killing every lawyer of the realm is one way by
    which the pretenders to the English throne might improve England. Like
    the other henchmen to Cade's rebellion, Dick the Butcher is a man of
    evil character, hence his expeditiously lethal solution to a societal
    problem usually resolved by lengthy legal process

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_kill_all_the_lawyers

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