playbook as old as Shakespeare

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

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