Cockroach is not a bad word or an abuse. A search in Wikipedia will reveal that cockroaches have retained their basic body structure for roughly 200 million years — that is 199,700,000 years earlier than Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Cockroaches have a prior claim over humans to the right to exist in this world.

Science Encyclopedia tells us that cockroaches do not bite or attack people, unlike people who attack cockroaches. Of course, cockroaches carry bacteria, transmit diseases and trigger allergies. Humans also carry bacteria, transmit diseases and trigger allergies (especially among members of rival groups). Some humans consider cockroaches as ‘creepy’, not unlike some humans consider other humans as ‘creepy’.

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Some days ago, a high dignitary stirred the cockroaches from their slumber. Bless him, he clarified promptly that he was referring to fake lawyers with fake degrees roaming around the courts. Such fake lawyers deserve to be called bad names but, I submit respectfully, not a cockroach. Once stirred, the cockroaches remain stirred........

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