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>> While I forget the exact terminology, and am not a lawyer, you are
>> allowed to [live]...
>
>Actually, I believe (don't take my word on this, I haven't looked it up
>recently) the special regulations for [life] are independent of fair
>use. 

Speaking of lawyers, let's reread what Mr Zappa said in the Society
Pages Interview O' the Century, part 1:

DS (interviewer): The secret word definitely was brought to new highs
during that tour, huh?

FZ: That's true.

DS: "Tell Me You Love Me" kind of has gone through some evolutions.
Obviously, it evolved into "Why Don't You Like Me".  Before that in
'84, there was somthin' sort of in-between...

FZ: "Don't Be A Lawyer."  (footnote)

DS: "Don't Be A Lawyer".  (FZ laughs.)  I'm not really too familiar
with the lyrics of that, but what's the basic gist of ... I know what
the other two mean.  I'm familiar with those lyrics, but what's the
basic gist of "Don't Be A Lawyer"?  What's that song about?

FZ: Well, basically we have too many lawyers in the United States, and
most of the things that are wrong with the, well, let's look at it
this way.  If you had the belief that living, when you, let's see how
do I say this?  Let's say you're a regular person and you have a
regular life and you just wanna do your regular stuff.  Hanging over
your head is the possibility that you could run afoul of the law, laws
which you don't even know exist.  There's always a chance that the
government, in some way, is going to give you a bad time.  This leads
to the belief, the widespread belief, I feel in the United States,
that the average guy can't get a fair deal, because there is no fair
deal available anymore, and that always, there lurks the possibility
that in order for you to survive, just to stay out of jail or to stay
out of bankruptcy, you're gonna have to use the services of a lawyer.
Well, the lawyer is not your friend, because the lawyers are the
people who created the situation where there are so many laws that it
makes your life miserable.  It's a self-perpetuationg monstosity, and
we have too many lawyers dispensing bad law, actually participating
where they become legislators.  I think that it's time for some social
engineering to steer people away from the legal profession.  There are
just too many lawyers for our own good.  These guys have to earn a
living, too, and so you wind up with people suggesting that you sue
somebody else.  That's how they earn their money, by generating
paperwork.  You will pay them money to make somebody else's life
miserable and vice-versa.  That's what's lurking beneath the surface
of American life right now.

DS: It's a (Den pronounces it wrong) litigious society. 

FZ:  Yeah.  You pronounce it litigious. 

DS: Litigious.  Thank you.  This makes me think of something....

[etc; interview continues for the remainder of the twentieth century,
bless its soul.]

footnote: This permutation was performed only a few times at the
beginning of the 1984 world tour. 

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Zappa for prez!  He is running but won't waste any $$$ on it. 

p.s. apologies to all you who think this quote belongs nowhere or at
least NOT ON this newsgroup.  Followups elsewhere plz thanks.