This has been a few weeks coming. So here is the mission statement for the site:
Next fall I shall be beginning BAMCIS Legal. This is certainly open to change in the coming months, but it is my intention to be running a small solo practice within the Pacific Northwest. The main focus the practice will be in civil rights matters and I don’t anticipate becoming overly wealthy from it. Basically, I want to help YOU fight city hall. Our lives are daily influenced by men with badges and other agents of government. These agents are often poorly equipped to wield the power they carry. This can be due to simply being poorly vetted before being put into a position of power. More often it’s because no person should have the power over your life that these people carry. It is my goal to loose those shackles, or at the very least to serve as punisher to those who abuse power.
Clearly, much of what I’m going to discuss on this site will be matters you wouldn’t expect to hear from a lawyer, much less one who is allowing his practice to be known. I anticipate that this will hurt my business. Why do it then? It is important to me that anyone who accepts representation by me be well aware of the man who represents him. One of my concerns in going into the law was the mercenary way in which lawyers are used. The morality of this is pressed upon you from the first day of law school. There is no right or wrong, and both sides deserve fierce representation. The legal profession is replete with people starting off as consumer protection lawyers who then become corporate lawyers. It’s not uncommon to hear of a person beginning a career as a prosecutor then becoming a criminal defense attorney or vice-versa. I intend to start a solo practice so I can choose first whether a client’s position is ethical before accepting his business.
My life’s mission statement: fortune and glory. I intend to become wealthy because, well, then I can entertain all of my eccentricities. I have a philosophy for life, and I desire that philosophy to be heard. I believe in the power of the individual. Only be empowering each of us who prove ourselves worthy can we earn the ultimate glory for our species: eternal survival.
To that end, hopefully business will go beyond BAMCIS Legal into other ventures. BAMCIS Publishing? Sounds like a plan. And each of those will require customers. And as a matter of integrity I would want each of those customers to know the man and the ideas they support when they purchase a product from me, whether a widget or legal representation.
BAMCIS: The six troop leading steps as taught to United States Marines. Commonly used by said Marines as a sign of exaltation following a success in life.
Begin the Planning
Arrange Reconnaissance
Make Reconnaissance
Complete the Plan
Issue the Order
Supervise
