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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The defense lawyers simply should be ashamed.

Every person charged with a crime deserves a vigorous defense, and part of that process is an attempt to plead down the case. Defense lawyers have nothing to be ashamed of in the slightest.

Some judges dissent because their egos are bruised. They are taken out of the equation after a child predator is convicted.

Ego doesn't have anything to do with it, Judges understand that justice isn't as simple as a rulebook.

2 posted on 02/24/2007 10:56:03 PM PST by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Zeroisanumber
Defense lawyers have nothing to be ashamed of in the slightest.

I'm not sure your hyperbole serves your case any better than O'Reilly's hyperbole serves his.

Sophistry should not be substituted for a "vigorous defense." Yet that is the case in much of our judicial system. Deconstructionism and postmodern concepts of truth (or lack thereof) have turned our "adversarial" judicial system into a game of verbal gymnastics which has only tangential connections to reality and truth. And not a lot to do with justice as a concept, only as a definition.

6 posted on 02/24/2007 11:49:07 PM PST by the808bass (Deconstruct at your leisure)
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To: Zeroisanumber

The Tyranny of Tolerance Written by Robert H. Dierker, Jr.


Category: Current Affairs - American
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2006
ISBN: 978-0-307-33919-5 (0-307-33919-X)
Also available as an eBook.

Published by Crown Forum

About this Book
Read an Excerpt

ABOUT THIS BOOK
For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.

A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept judges from speaking out to present a withering account of how radical liberals run roughshod over the Constitution, waging war on the laws of nature, the laws of reason, and the law of God.

Even those outraged by America’s courts will be shocked by Judge Dierker’s story of activist judges, deep-pocketed special interest groups, pandering politicians, and others who claim to stand for tolerance, equal rights, and social justice, but actually stand for something quite different—something closer to totalitarianism.

Citing not only Judge Dierker’s own experiences but dozens of other recent court cases, The Tyranny of Tolerance shows how the courts enable left-wing activists to ram their dangerous agenda down the throats of the American people. Consider:

• Why do the courts claim the power to tax us?
• Why is a Christian fired when he voices opposition to his employer’s favoring homosexuals?
• Why are airline pilots sued and sent to “diversity training” for recommending that suspicious-looking people of Middle Eastern appearance be kept off planes?
• Why does a judge who defends a monument to the Ten Commandments in a courthouse lose his job?
• Why are speech codes imposed on employers, university students, lawyers (and judges!), while “artistic” indecency is protected from even the mildest regulation?
• Why are peaceful abortion protesters thrown in jail, their right to free speech crushed?
• Why are white and Asian students denied admission to colleges and universities in the name of “diversity”?
• Why is an enemy fighter captured in Afghanistan granted access to U.S. federal courts, overturning judicial precedent safeguarding the president’s wartime powers—to say nothing of common sense?

With this passionate insider’s account, Judge Dierker reminds Americans what’s at stake in the battle for the courts: the Constitution, the success of the war on terrorism, the freedom to worship God, the ability to keep our families safe, the institution of marriage, and much more.

Fortunately, Judge Dierker shows how we can defeat the radical liberals’ tyranny of tolerance. By wresting back control of the courts and restoring the legal, moral, and religious principles embedded in the Constitution, we can ultimately reclaim the republic the Founders bequeathed to us.


7 posted on 02/25/2007 12:13:22 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Vote for RINOS, lose and complain by sending a self-abused stomped elephant.)
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To: Zeroisanumber
The defense lawyers simply should be ashamed.

Thankfully, BOR thinks for us lesser simpler beings without the power of critical thinking skills.

The man is beyond pompous.

I wonder what the defense lawyers who were planning his legal strategy against sexual harassment charges think?

16 posted on 02/25/2007 5:14:05 AM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: Zeroisanumber

I take it you are a lawyer or a judge. Sticking up for pond scum is not cool.


23 posted on 02/25/2007 12:25:32 PM PST by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: Zeroisanumber

One for two isn't bad.

The defense lawyers need to do whatever they can to be effective advocates for their clients, no matter how repugnant those clients are, and no matter how heinous their crimes.

On the other hand, there absolutely MUST be a firewall for society at large against criminal-coddling, corrupt, scumbag liberal Democrat judges. Mandatory sentencing laws provide the rest of us with that firewall.


28 posted on 02/25/2007 8:10:26 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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