They’ve really gotta be shitting me. I mean, really.
First, during Sean Hannity’s March 23 radio show, former New York Mayor (and New York U.S. Attorney) Rudolph Giuliani fielded phone calls from listeners. One caller asked Giuliani to clarify his stance on gun control, to which he replied, “I support the First Amendment right to carry and bear arms.”
Okay, for any others also not paying attention during “Con Law I” class, the two Constitutional Amendments at issue are as follows:
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Riiight. Thanks Rudy, and you’re running for President of just what, exactly?
As if that wasn’t comical enough, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s senior counselor yesterday refused to testify in the Senate about her involvement in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. As aptly noted by the Washington Post:
The decision means a senior aide to the nation’s top law enforcement official is in the remarkable position of refusing to testify for fear of implicating herself in a crime.
At least she cited the correct Amendment. It could have been worse – she could have sought refuge under the Eighteenth Amendment, but then she wouldn’t have the luxury of getting liquored-up after being granted immunity.
Finally, as if the above stories weren’t sufficient justification for lobotomizing all lawyers (myself included), there’s this story of the Justice Department’s continued efforts to mangle the U.S. justice system. In addition to the now well-publicized political firings of said U.S. attorneys, the Justice Department sought to insert a provision into the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act that would allow the AG the power to appoint interim U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation.
Thankfully, Congress passed a bill yesterday stripping the Justice Department and the AG of that power, which would effectively have given the President and his legal lackeys the power to hire and fire, at will, the highest law enforcement officials in the country – depending on which of Congresses laws they seek to enforce.
Well, I guess it could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.
N.B. As you can see, for some reason I’m stuck on a Fight Club/Super Friends theme this week. Sorry about that. I’m hoping it passes before I develop a taste for lobster bisque and crime-fighting.
(Via The Daily Dish)
Main Entry: nelophobia
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a fear of glass
Is this correct?
And we have a winner.
Time to find some other random fucking phobia to haunt my nightmares.
Perhaps a fear of caning or cholera is in order.
Frakking lawyers, everybody knows that the 2nd Amendment is about guns! What a tool.
great points in your post.
loving the super friends!
V
If Judas were alive, he’d be a lawyer.
You know what’s really fun to do? Ask a lawyer if he/she know the 5 things necessary to be a truly honest lawyer. The odds are they’ll say “NO”, then you say, “I didn’t think you would!”
LAWYERs ……… Where do I start. I will keep it simple , a lawyer is a virus with shoes. Now I don’t want you to think I am prejudice because I think everyone should own two lawyes, one to crap on and the other to wipe yourself with.
I like Ralph DeMattia’s comment I will use it tomorrow.
I hate lawyers. In fact, I fired one yesterday for being lazy and stupid. After three weeks of blood, sweat and playing golf, this idiot sends me an email. He plays the game of peat, repeat and echo. He only tells me what I had told him three weeks earlier. His information about my case is wrong. He spends his time telling me what the other lawyer and his clients proposes. I should have known better than to use this lawyer when he reveal that he and the other lawyer were college buds.
I wrote the S.O.B. an email and asked him what in the hell was he doing? I told him that I did not hire him to represent the other lawyer and his clients to me. I didn’t give a damn about what they proposed. He took almost a $1000.00. I went to his office and told him to his face was a stupid kid that didn’t know how to represent his client. Watch out for these blood sucking, money stealing asshole.
I just went through two years of harassment by my brother’s attorney. Over 2,000 hours, sometimes more then 40 hours a week went into responding to his demands for disclosure. I sent the same things multiple times. As trustee for my mom’s trust, I experienced that I had no rights as a beneficiary. I was challenged repeatedly on the same issues, had 5 attorneys of my own look over my work and find that I was acting in accordance with the trust and the law.
My brother’s attorney repeatedly threatened and accused me and finally demanded that I do something so unethical that I resigned.
Next, I was petitioned. The petition consisted of 8 false accusations. I knew I had been honest and mistakenly believed that if you are honest and can prove with physical evidence that you have acted in good faith, you have nothing to fear from the law. I represented myself.
As this was now in probate court, none of the trust law or the trust, for that matter had any relevance. I was now held to the same standard as a professional certified trust attorney. I have a high school education.
Each trip to court was over 700 miles from my house. I was never allowed to speak. I was sanctioned $1,000 for not turning over the information that I had proof of service that I’d sent them. This same information was attached to documents filed with the court.
When the bench trial finally happened, I was cautioned to contain myself to the matters of the petition. I was not allowed to object as I listened to opposing council lie during his opening statement. An hour an a half later, I didn’t even know where to start. False accusations going back to before Mom dyed, 38 exhibits, NOTHING BACKED UP WITH PROOF! The judge cautioned that the trial was to go no later then 4:15. The judge allowed my brother’s attorney to go for nearly 2 hours giving his closing argument, stopping him at 4:10. I had 5 minutes to respond to nearly 2 hours of lies.
The judgment: I was found guilty of bad faith for something that I was never accused of or had opportunity to defend my self from. I was to reimburse my evil brother $58,000 for his attorney fees going back to when he first hired the guy. My brother got less then $10,000. My brother’s attorney has cost me nearly $200,000. I have less then $1,000, my cabin and my car. My struggling gift store is my only source of income.
I did finally retain an attorney to ensure that I did the last of this correctly. At $350 per hour, I could not afford to call him to ask a question. I had to let him go hoping I’ll be able to come up with the money to pay his last bill. Since the beginning of May, I have already paid him nearly $20,000.
So, why do I hate attorneys. I don’t hate all attorneys. I hate my brother’s attorney. My brother was the perfect dupe. Half a million dollars inheritance and less then half a brain. This attorney started out by cutting off all communication. He emailed me multiple times daily and sent many of the same things in the mail. He kept anything from getting settled. He stoked the fires of my brother’s resentment that he, the oldest son had not been chosen as trustee. He bent and twisted the law. He used the court to extort tens of thousands of dollars, ruined a family and may succeed in making me homeless. The saddest part is that he has destroyed my belief in the law and this country. I have experienced profound hatred because of my brother’s attorney. So my brother has succeeded. He has given my inheritance to his attorney and he has made a loved one into an enemy.
That sucks. The legal system is too complicated and technical to navigate through, that’s how lawyers makes money, A pro se litigant are treated as you have a lawyer….That does not sound fair, Laywers are definetely paid too much, Their expertise is how to fight others, sometimes like enemy, I do not think that kind of work is much beneficial to the society as a whole, it is often destructive than construstive, does not worth to be paid that much and elevated.
It is sad this country had too much laws, It is too heavy a burden onto itself and hard for a averge guy to obtain Justice, Justice is for rich people?