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To: elmatador who wrote (52865)	7/30/2009 4:43:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218074

Lawyers in training = theft and corruption. Lawyers are taught to be dishonest. Their brief is to get away with as much as possible legally [or even illegally if they think the consequences are worth the risk]. They actually think that the law is the actual definition of reality - that's how delusional they are. I recently had an example in "Politics for Pros" right here in SI and a lawyer thinks that consensual sex with an adult female aged 15 is rape. He couldn't get his head around the idea that if it's consensual, then even if legally it is defined as "statutory rape", in regular life, among reasonable people with even half a brain, it's not rape. It's naughty. Or not even naughty in many families. There are no doubt honest lawyers. And if not two, at least one. Let's see, there's, um.... well, I can't actually name one but I bet there is one or even more [SI people don't count coz they are just screen names, not actual people]. <Shanti Andrews and Rebecca Turner, both 23-year-old law graduates, were arrested on Sunday and accused by police in Rio de Janeiro of fraudulently claiming they had been robbed. They allegedly reported stolen items worth £1,300, including a laptop, a camera and an iPod. When police investigated, the items were found stashed in lockers in their hostel. Offiicers were suspicious because the pair had waited several days to report the theft, according to the Evening Standard. Andrews' mother, Simone Headley, said the pair were "traumatised" and appealed for "fairness and leniency" from the legal authorities in Brazil. Speaking outside the family home in Frant, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Headley said: "I spoke to her on Monday and she seems devastated. She is absolutely traumatised, they both are. "There has been a misunderstanding. Shanti and Rebecca are two hardworking young girls, never been in trouble." The two graduates had been due to return to the UK on Monday. Headley said: "This unfortunate incident came along at the end of their nine-month journey around the world. We hope the Brazilian justice system will see it as a misunderstanding and the girls will be able to come home safely. "We are asking them to please show the world fairness and leniency." A press statement released on the website of civil police in Rio de Janerio announced the arrests, together with a photograph of the two women. It accused the pair of insurance fraud practised by other tourists in the city. It said such scams exaggerated Rio's crime rate. > "Fairness" is the criminal pair paying 20 x the insurance fraud amount to the insurer, and also paying 10 x the legal costs to the judicial system [costs of police etc]. If they are unable to pay, one each of their kidneys should be sold at auction to the highest bidder and that money be paid to the insurance company. Sell the story to the highest bidding news media business and pay that money to the insurer and judicial authorities too. If the criminals comply with those requirements, then release them from prison after 2 months. There's no point in wasting money keeping them in gaol for 5 years. I suppose there are so many criminals in Brazil that they foolishly thought it was normal to be a criminal. It is, but part of the deal is to have the right amount of bribery loot to buy freedom again if sprung. You'd think lawyers would know about such cash flow methods = their cartels are experts in the matter. Mqurice