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

[Georgia Terrapin]

They always have review and comment cards that you submit so the organizers can evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Usually, they can be submitted anonymously. I attended a drug rehab CLE that was 50% pointless, and the presenter's "rehabilitated" assistant was obviously stoned. (Not really my choice of classes, but fortunately 50% was an entertaining scientist explaining how the illegal drugs affect one mentally and physiologically.) I called them out on the comment card and signed it. I later contacted the organizers to tell them CLE is useless if it's presented by stoners and doesn't involve law in some way. You make your point, but not until you're sure of receiving the mandatory credit hours you suffered for.

 

[Bypass]

Good commercial.

 

[olerambler]

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.

YEAH AND FORGOT TO MENTION YOUR TYPICAL STREET JIGGER WHO OUT LOOKING FOR EASY TARGET TO ROB RAPE WHAT EVER COMES TO HIS SMALL BRAIN .MAYBE THAT LAWYER NEEDS TO SPEND FEW NIGHTS ON STREETS IN ALOT OF THESE BIG TOWNS SEE WHAT REAL WORLD IS LIKE.

 

[Bypass]

YEAH AND FORGOT TO MENTION YOUR TYPICAL STREET JIGGER WHO OUT LOOKING FOR EASY TARGET TO ROB RAPE WHAT EVER COMES TO HIS SMALL BRAIN .MAYBE THAT LAWYER NEEDS TO SPEND FEW NIGHTS ON STREETS IN ALOT OF THESE BIG TOWNS SEE WHAT REAL WORLD IS LIKE.

My TL use to call me a Chigger. I assumed it was a term of endearment.

 

[diacnik]

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.

but he probably paid a large fee and needed to get the continuing ed to stay current in certification - so stuck by the ambush, but maybe said something at the end or in evaluation, etc

 

[GeauxLSU]

Maybe it was an anti tax rally.