The Lawyer Jokes are true (feminine version)
Jack Kemp
Last night I went to a community board meeting in my New York City neighborhood, a meeting that began with the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase "one Nation under God" included. After the local police precinct commander gave his report on the thankfully low crime statistics and his efforts to keep unlicensed motorcycle/moped drivers off the streets, questions were asked from the audience.
One woman, a citizen non-board member, inquired about rapes and assaults on women. The precinct commander gave a low figure and talked about how this was not the result of any repeated pattern by a neighborhood resident, in his professional opinion.
Then I witnessed a question asked by a woman attorney, an actual local board member. She asked about purse snatchings in the precinct/community. The precinct commander gave a low figure and they discussed an incident in January in which the perpetrator was caught and awaiting trial. What followed showed a shallowness and egotism that I could barely believe. This same attorney then said, after being informed the perpetrator was caught, that if she were his lawyer, he would not be convicted (or words almost identical to that). Sitting about fifteen feet away from her, the lawyer admitted that for a price she would sell the interests of the community and her fellow women, victims of purse snatchings, for a few pieces of silver. I assume this wasn't part of the speeches she made when she ran for community board membership.
I do not know the name of the attorney in question, nor do I wish to learn it. Thankfully, her sentiments did not appear to represent those of a community board of many members. But it shows a "soul sickness," if I may borrow a phrase from a writer friend Bill Miller, that went beyond a desire to see an accused given the protection of the law to the level of all but advocacy of getting away with whatever one could, i.e., anarchy. Yes, snatch a purse and this attorney will help you get away with it - and she stated this to the civic minded attendees of a community board. Was she encouraging me and others present to take up purse snatching and then hiring her if caught?
Years ago, I wrote a blog piece on Moral Relativism http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/01/moral_relativism.html where I stated that if a liberal tells you there is no right and wrong, ask them for the address of their grandmother so you can steal her purse on the first of the month when she goes to deposit her Social Security check - and see what their reaction will be. Apparently I should have said ask a lawyer this question because they might very well not only give you the grandmother's address, but their business card in case you get caught. This is a bankrupt philosophy for a near bankrupt liberal run big city. Mayor Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat who "switched parties" so he could avoid a bruising Democratic primary fight (he is now an "independent"). There is a reason that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's policing policies have been continued in the next administration.
There is a Bronx, New York City, assistant District Attorney who had a recent arrest for being drunk and involved in a car accident removed from her driving record in what now has become a public scandal.
The New York Post reported on May 5th that:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ada_case_loaded_in_bronx_wTfOeIkDvCnm5263vlUa0J
"Jennifer Troiano, 34, was arrested last August after she was found 'stumbling, falling down . . . on the cellphone walking in lanes of traffic' after an accident on the Major Deegan Expressway, police said."
END
Amazingly, the City of New York is still allowing her to prosecute 75 other cases of lawbreaking as complaints mount from both police and other attorneys in her office.
How long can a city - or a society - operate at this level of amorality and double standard? The only silver lining I can point out is that at least the City of New York isn't running those radio commercials asking people to buy their bonds.
There isn't much of a bond between the government and the citizens these days.
Last night I went to a community board meeting in my New York City neighborhood, a meeting that began with the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase "one Nation under God" included. After the local police precinct commander gave his report on the thankfully low crime statistics and his efforts to keep unlicensed motorcycle/moped drivers off the streets, questions were asked from the audience.
One woman, a citizen non-board member, inquired about rapes and assaults on women. The precinct commander gave a low figure and talked about how this was not the result of any repeated pattern by a neighborhood resident, in his professional opinion.
Then I witnessed a question asked by a woman attorney, an actual local board member. She asked about purse snatchings in the precinct/community. The precinct commander gave a low figure and they discussed an incident in January in which the perpetrator was caught and awaiting trial. What followed showed a shallowness and egotism that I could barely believe. This same attorney then said, after being informed the perpetrator was caught, that if she were his lawyer, he would not be convicted (or words almost identical to that). Sitting about fifteen feet away from her, the lawyer admitted that for a price she would sell the interests of the community and her fellow women, victims of purse snatchings, for a few pieces of silver. I assume this wasn't part of the speeches she made when she ran for community board membership.
I do not know the name of the attorney in question, nor do I wish to learn it. Thankfully, her sentiments did not appear to represent those of a community board of many members. But it shows a "soul sickness," if I may borrow a phrase from a writer friend Bill Miller, that went beyond a desire to see an accused given the protection of the law to the level of all but advocacy of getting away with whatever one could, i.e., anarchy. Yes, snatch a purse and this attorney will help you get away with it - and she stated this to the civic minded attendees of a community board. Was she encouraging me and others present to take up purse snatching and then hiring her if caught?
Years ago, I wrote a blog piece on Moral Relativism http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/01/moral_relativism.html where I stated that if a liberal tells you there is no right and wrong, ask them for the address of their grandmother so you can steal her purse on the first of the month when she goes to deposit her Social Security check - and see what their reaction will be. Apparently I should have said ask a lawyer this question because they might very well not only give you the grandmother's address, but their business card in case you get caught. This is a bankrupt philosophy for a near bankrupt liberal run big city. Mayor Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat who "switched parties" so he could avoid a bruising Democratic primary fight (he is now an "independent"). There is a reason that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's policing policies have been continued in the next administration.
There is a Bronx, New York City, assistant District Attorney who had a recent arrest for being drunk and involved in a car accident removed from her driving record in what now has become a public scandal.
The New York Post reported on May 5th that:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ada_case_loaded_in_bronx_wTfOeIkDvCnm5263vlUa0J
"Jennifer Troiano, 34, was arrested last August after she was found 'stumbling, falling down . . . on the cellphone walking in lanes of traffic' after an accident on the Major Deegan Expressway, police said."
END
Amazingly, the City of New York is still allowing her to prosecute 75 other cases of lawbreaking as complaints mount from both police and other attorneys in her office.
How long can a city - or a society - operate at this level of amorality and double standard? The only silver lining I can point out is that at least the City of New York isn't running those radio commercials asking people to buy their bonds.
There isn't much of a bond between the government and the citizens these days.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 3:46 AM
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