Alan Dershowitz-Defending Osama bin Laden in court as a lawyer is the 'highest form of patriotism'

Good Morning America ^ | November 29, 2001 | Diane Sawyer

[codebreaker]

Just uttered this spew right in front of Diane Sawyer unchallanged on Good Morning America .

[codebreaker]

Just forget the dead and all of the soldiers, Alan.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

In Alan's world of poststructural thinking, everything you think is right is wrong, and vice versa. Ergo, OJ is innocent, communism worked, and Bill Clinton is God.

[TomGuy]

All Ders is concerned with is the astronomical fee he'd hope to get.

[imperator2]

He repeats the same garbage wherever he goes. The only things he omits to say is that those patriotic lawyers will send a bill of $20 million dollars to the American public for defending Bin Laden.

The lawyers who defended the WTC bombing of '93 send the government a bill for $14 million. The McVeigh lawyers billed us $20 million.

Lawyers sure are patriotic when it come to stealing money.

[randog]

I love all these warped definitions of patriotism. "I love my country so much I have to destroy it". Only a liberal could make that connection.

[Tony Niar Brain]

One of the fundamental concepts behind the U.S. Constitution is that EVERYBODY, including the worst criminal, has a right to a lawyer. We cannot disregard it because it's an inconviencence. It's much like freedom of speech; if we don't believe in it for those we don't like, then we don't believe in it at all.

[imperator2]

Nowhere does it say that the defendent has a blank check to charge the American public whatever the heck they want. I think that defense cost should be strickly limited, and obtained from any assests the defendents or their organizations have. I am not willing to pay taxes to enrich lawyers.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

He's a waste of space

[rushtafarian]

What you ('brain') don't realize is that this is WAR!! The war has been brought upon us on our shores. Bin-deaden is not privy to our constitutional guarantee of rights. He is a war criminal and should (and will) be handled as such. No amount of bleeding heart liberal spew can or will change that. The American people OVERWHELMINGLY support our president in this matter. Libs be d#*ned on this one!

Frankly, his head should end up on a stick with his entrails dangling for the dogs.

God bless the true patriot.

rushtafarian

[Sneer]

Would he do he same for Hitler?

[pray4liberty]

Alan Dershowitz-Defending Osama bin Laden in court as a lawyer is the 'highest form of patriotism'

Patriotism? More like treason.

[rushtafarian]

Touche Sneer!

God bless the true patriot.

rushtafarian

[GenXFreedomFighter]

He's said he would. Gladly.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Would he do the same for Hitler?

Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Claus von Bulow...absolutely

Devout Christian or Jew....forget about it

[japaneseghost]

Let me 'xplain:

When I worked in a NYC boutique law firm, the 2nd biggest client was a Jewish Mafia don. His wife's brother was executed in a restaurant, and there was lots of publicity. Our partner went to the funeral. His picture (and the Mafia don client's picture) was in the papers.

The other partners freaked out. Our #1 biggest client was a very quiet society venture capitalist who hated publicity.

A partners' meeting was called. The Mafia don was removed from our client list. That was 10 in the morning. By 4 p.m., the managing partner convinced the older, conservative partners that even Mafiosos were afforded the privilege of legal representation, and that it was unAmerican to deny someone who had previously paid his bills and given us so much business.

The client list was printed again, with the Mafia don's name included.

The moral of the story is that it takes guts to defend someone who is obviously wrong, but somebody has to do it, because if no one does it, our legal system would be lacking due process.

[DManA]

Well, John Adams did defend British Soldiers in court.

[Guillam]

The highest form of self interest maybe. Shyster.

[JD86]

that it was unAmerican to deny someone who had previously paid his bills and given us so much business. The client list was printed again, with the Mafia don's name included. The moral of the story is that it takes guts to defend someone who is obviously wrong, but somebody has to do it, because if no one does it, our legal system would be lacking due process.

Pleeeassssse, the moral of your story is that it was unAmerican to deny someone who had previously paid his bills and given us so much business.

[Nora]

If by some miscarriage of gun control, Bin Laden were to stand trial in the United States, it would be the highest form of patriotism to defend him. OBL has plenty of money to hire whomever he wishes, so not to worry about tax dollars enriching lawyers.

We are a nation of laws and of a government with limited powers. The role of the criminal defense lawyer is to make sure that the government never oversteps the Constitutional limits of its power. While I have no desire to see OBL taken alive, if he were put on trial in a criminal court here, the government would not be entitled to arrogate to itself additional power just because we "know" he is evil. To stand up to the enormous public displeasure (which is being previewed here) in order to assure that we remain a nation of laws is indeed patriotism and the highest defense of the Constitutional limits on the government.

[JD86]

The lawyers who defended the WTC bombing of '93 send the government a bill for $14 million. The McVeigh lawyers billed us $20 million.

let us hope bin Laden does not survive to stand trial, for purely economic reasons of course