- Lionel Houston: The public looks to the law for protection from these leeches who've chiselled and gouged and sweated them out of their hard-earned dollars, and given them nothing but death and misery in return. If I had my way I'd line 'em all up against a wall and shoot 'em. But as long as the law doesn't permit that, I can at least send them away for as long as the law *does* permit.