"let's kill all the lawyers"

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It looks like someone took Shakespear's line, "[t]he first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," a little too seriously. Apparently lawyers have turned this quote on its head by arguing it is actually a compliment to lawyers, as noted in this awkwardly written article:

As long as there are lawyer [sic], there will be "lawyer jokes". And lawyers will show how those jokes ring true by trying to explain how such lampooning really constitutes praise for their profession, thus by example justifying the jokes more than ever.

I was never a big Shakespear fan (besides, I guess, Julius Caesar and MacBeth), so MHO on this quote doesn't mean much. But, a quick review indicates that lawyers can rightfully claim this quote as praise for their profession. If lawyers are so bad, why would a treacherous gang want to kill them all? As the logic goes: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.