This makes you want to go grab a baton and stand there with him

[CQB27]

And you didn't stand up and say a dam thang?

Did you call them out on it?

Probably too busy being "continuing educated" to do that.

 

[dcline9163]

Now that's what it's like when you don't have the balls to stand up and say " You Know I don't need to sit here and listen to this Bull Crap from ya'll, then get up say what you think and walk out" That's when you make a statement.

 

[Ken Ford]

I was just at a lawyer's continuing education conference earlier today, and they talked about how those mean nasty white Southern men used to lynch blacks and beat up civil rights marchers and murder the voter-registration volunteers. I was thinking, "Ok, but that was 55 years ago. HOw about talking about AntiFa and the modern violence that the left offers?"

Then they talked about NAZI Germany, and how Trump, like Hitler, manipulated the media and offered propaganda instead of real news, and back in Germany during WWII these right-wing nationalist ideas caused the Holocaust and many millions of deaths. And again, I was thinking. "Yeah, that happened 75 years ago. So why are we talking about this now, at a seminar for Georgia lawyers who might have to deal with First Amendment issues and the intersection of criminal law with constitutional rights? (German people never had any constitutional rights-- when they weren't ruled by an absolute monarch, the "constitution" only addressed the structure of government and the administrative procedures for making laws. Nothing about individual rights. So whatever person or group had the power to make the law was basically unrestricted, and could go as far as they wanted. No judicial review of the executive branch's or legislative branch's actions). I was thinking, "how is this history lesson about the Brownshirts smashing glass windows of Jews' homes and businesses supposed to make me a better lawyer in 2019, when the only real violence to be found in political expression today comes from the extremist left?"

Finally, at the end of the seminar, they made up a hypothetical that was something similar to antifa, but a lost nicer, kinder, and with the best of intentions. They were militant vegans who wanted to tear down the statue of a cow at a university that was founded as a agricultural college and still taught future farmers and meat industry managers about raising cattle for food. Those vegetarians were noisy, but didn't smash anybody's head with bicycle locks, didn't burn down any buildings, didn't flip over cars, didn't throw rocks or bricks, didn't carry baseball bats or wear helmets at their "public demonstration." And, in the end, all the lawyers who spoke / taught pretty much agreed that there was nothing any of us could do to interfere with their right to protest. Even if the protest ends with the cow statute being smashed and destroyed by the angry mob.

The liberal-leaning lawyers who taught this seminar didn't have the guts to talk about the real-world violence perpetrated by the New Black Panthers, Islamic fundamentalists, Black Lives Matters rioters, or AntiFa. THe lawyers had to resort to making up some fictional, safe, only mildly annoying left-wing group for their seminar to discuss. But when it came to right-wing violence, they talked in gory detail and showed all the pictures of lynchings and beatings and mass executions of Jews.

And your money and time was spent there? At least you should know what organizations to keep away from now...
Not judging, I’ve been fooled myself. But once I know...

 

[gyppo]

Don’t be so hard on GaLaw. He is sharing insight from the other side. When was the last time you stood up in a group of your work peers and said f.... all of you and what you silly bas....... think.
If his peers found out he was a secret agent he would catch a lot of their veiled passive aggressive bull****.

 

[Ken Ford]

Don’t be so hard on GaLaw. He is sharing insight from the other side. When was the last time you stood up in a group of your work peers and said f.... all of you and what you silly bas....... think.
If his peers found out he was a secret agent he would catch a lot of their veiled passive aggressive bull****.

I have to agree somewhat. I’m just assuming he has some choice where he gets that continuing “education”

 

[palmettomoon]

Don’t be so hard on GaLaw. .....
If his peers found out he was a secret agent he would catch a lot of their veiled passive aggressive bull****.

You'd reckon he gets enough of that around here, tee hee.

 

[chucklenut]

Don’t be so hard on GaLaw. He is sharing insight from the other side. When was the last time you stood up in a group of your work peers and said f.... all of you and what you silly bas....... think.
If his peers found out he was a secret agent he would catch a lot of their veiled passive aggressive bull****.

ya i concur

read the crowd. sometimes telling people the truth doesnt do anyone any favors.

like my dad told me years ago "dont try to teach a pig to dance. why? you will simply irritate the pig and be left frustrated "

 

[The Old Jaybird]

How the hell is that considered continuing education? Or any kind of education, more like indoctrination. You would think the CE for attorneys would be new courtroom procedures, reviews of new legal precedents handed down by appeals courts, that kind of boring crap that would actually matter, maybe even new clever billing procedures on how to bill 2 different clients for the same hour of your time??

Worked with a guy that did the latter doing insurance consulting for state insurance departments, would bill 3 different states each 8 hours for his day....he made a ****-load of money, until the FBI got wise to him, defrauding a state government isn't a good thing to do.

 

[MRH]

Not saying anything is fine, but I would have got up and walked out. You don't have to say anything by walking, and yet you say plenty.

 

[MrJim]

Not saying anything is fine, but I would have got up and walked out. You don't have to say anything by walking, and yet you say plenty.

Me too