German attorney Dr Aiko Petersen refuses to continue granting his deferred services; clearly contravening the ethics standards of his profession and foregoing the cookie on the dark side.

From the department of the low-wage country, neoliberal economics, parallel justice system and commensurate lawyers.

We are saddened. Our moral standards shaken to the ground. Emotionally wrecked. Cataclysmically struck. Devastated!

Is there nothing sacred anymore? Do values get trampled that easily? Does the ego fall by the wayside over petty events?

His Shock & Awsomeness Dr Aiko Petersen

Shocker by docRA Aiko Petersen. It hit us between the toes:

"Hiermit lege ich das Mandat in allen Angelegenheiten nieder." Dr Aiko Petersen

"This is to inform you that I am resigning from my mandate." Attorney Dr Aiko Petersen

What can we say, we are awestruck, apart from the propositional fallacy in that it's a little hard to stop doing what you have not done in the first place. But hey, logical thinking should in the heat of the day be discounted and, as is common knowledge, can't be merged in a legal paragraph.

This resignation letter has affected us deeply, profoundly, emotionally, conceptually, digitally.... whatevs.

Here is why:

We believe that we deserve the continued, the unabated, the unequivocal vacuous service of docRA Petersen to progress to the point where we were 14 months ago.

We believe we have the unwritten right to witness devoted and uncompromising negligence in order to  see our case resolved sometime towards eternity. Or later.

We have paid in the firm belief our cases will find proper justice ad calendas graecas latest. We were even prepared to chip in a couple extra days, make that weeks. We intend to continue on that path because we believe in nirvana.

Procrastination is our mantra; all the better if it's shared by our attorney.

We are ethically convinced, malpractice is virtue and a cornerstone in a Banana Republic.

We clearly understand the hardship that is placed on the august Knights of Justice. Duty permeats their life; yet as Nietzsche cautioned in his 'Dawn of the Day': "To demand that duty should be always rather burdensome, as Kant does, is to demand that it shall never develop into a habit or custom. There is a small residue of ascetic cruelty in this demand." Therefore we feel this emotional dichotomy placed on the tender nerves of these chevalliers and that is exactly why Doc Aiko should continue kicking legal ass for us.

We subscribe to the notion that every case has a gestation period and if that tallies to 15 months, heck, we can deal with that if that's the time it takes to get the mental juices flowing in a lawyer.

We believe only the sustained effort of His Shock & Awesomeness Dr Aiko P. aka el Numero Uno, the Bourne Identity, Mr. Big, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, err, Taxi Driver, Naked Gun ... can offer us a nebulous idea of what justice could perhaps be.

While Elvis' 'A little less conversation, a little more action please' might energize some human beings, we accede to his meditative approach.

We are aware that pecuniar affairs can be funky and here we propose in an exercise of cultural appropriation to instead pay our dues in kind, like for example with Jutta ko Mala as our token of appreciation.

And we thought attorneys have brass balls, the Harvey Specter gait and shit rainbows at Pearson-Hardman. This much holds: "And I'm certainly not gonna let the likes of you tell me who I can and cannot blow." I am off to my mud bath.

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