Posted on 08/10/2010 9:17:50 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
There are several precepts that American jurisprudence is supposed to be based upon. "Equal under the law," "justice is blind," "no man is either above or below the law," in the U.S. these basic ideas undergird the premise that we are all the same under our American law. But apparently someone forgot to tell the American Bar Association about all these simple, long-time American principles because the ABA is delivering itself a new charge: The search for Hispanic law.
That's right, folks, the ABA is no longer concerned with "the law." The ABA is poised to become more concerned with segregating Americans into classes each with their own sort of "law." According to the ABA, I suppose, we now have your basic "Hispanic law," and perhaps your "African American law," with maybe a little "White law" thrown in there, and, who knows, maybe some "gay law," or heck, why not even some "non-human Americans law"? I mean my dog might want to sue someone, ya know?
And, wouldn't you know it, the reason we have this new concern about "Hispanic law" is because the new president of the ABA is a Cuban-American lawyer from Miami, Florida. The left's identity politics, its propensity to separate us all into different segments so that they can better control us, moves ahead apace with the era of Obama…. you know, that post-racial president that was supposed to "heal" America? Yeah, that one...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
The majority of attorneys are not members of the American Bar Association. While it has some role in vetting prospective judicial candidates, and as an excuse to party at its meetings, the organization is largely irrelevant to lawyers. It took a leftward turn decades ago and has lost membership in spades. Mostly those attorneys who have judicial or political aspirations are interested in being members. The rest couldn’t possibly care less. It is, like NOW, a shadow of itself that still commands attention only from the media when it is lazily looking for a spokesman.
After the apocalypse, people will hide the fact that they were lawyers... says a lot about that once fine calling.
LLS
Agreed, except that I think NOW was always pretty far left. The ABA used to be even-handed enough to be respected by conservatives, but that day ended, as you say, decades ago. Now the ABA takes positions on substantive abortion laws (favoring on-demand abortion, of course), for Pete’s sake. What’s that got to do with being a good attorney?
“What’s that got to do with being a good attorney?”
Nothing at all. The sixties generation determined awhile ago that it, the anointed, had the message and all it required was a power base from which to expound its message. Draft-dodging radicals discovered the benefit of using churches as a power base (after hiding out the Vietnam War in divinity schools), as did others as they moved through so-called nonprofit organizations and membership organizations such as the ABA. My understanding is that the AMA and APA, and a lot of other A—A groups have also been hijacked to use as political podiums. The groups are becoming caricatures of their original missions.
Whether or not the non-ABA lawyers realize it, the American Bar Association is the face of lawyers in this country. Their silence in the face of ludicrous ABA statements & actions is taken as at least acquiescence, if not down right approval.
Lawyers, clean up your own house, before the unwashed masses listen to Dick in Henry the Sixth:
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
Can’t argue with you on that but it is a huge job. You can say the same about every other profession represented by a national, or even state, organization. How many teachers feel adequately represented by the NEA or AFT? How many state workers really feel loyalty to the SEIU? While it may be advantageous to fight from the inside, it would take decades in the case of the ABA. In the meantime, the group collects hundreds of dollars annually for membership fees and spends it lavishly funding radical causes. (It might be thousands now, for all I know. I quit way back during the abortion and ERA fights.)
As always, it’s the media that anoints and props up these organizations. Neuter the media, form alternate organizations and the original organizations will have to start dancing to the tune of its members to even have any relevance.
Expected from a libtard outfit largely made up of liberal/progressive Democrat Party trial lawyers..... =.=
Ping!
When they decided to be pro-abortion in the 1980’s I left. They have no business meddling in the stuff they take on in the name of the law.
The radical leftist have gone for the controlling positions in nearly all professional organizations, from the ABA, NEA, and unions to “mainstream” churches.
I believe that the most effective course will be to form alternate organizations. We have already begun that with the media. Then look at the more conservative Episcopal churches aligning with conservative African Anglican bishops.
In education, what makes the “elite” schools elite? Because all the “right” people went there? Does an education from Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Columbia better prepare one academically for public service that a similar degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, Rice or Notre Dame?
Does an education in law at Harvard make one a better representative of the people that an engineering course at Georgia Tech or Carnegie-Mellon? What about a career military officer, factory manager or large farm owner/manager?
For that matter, we even had a retired actor who made a better president than all of the men put together who made a law degree from an “elite” university their first step up the political ladder.
(no offense intended to you, a lawyer, I presume)
Hispanic Law, Black Law, Sharia Law, talk about court shopping.
The Americans defeated them over and over again in the conquest of the New World and humiliated them with America's success as a nation.
An affront to men who think the world revolves around them.
So they will now try to take by farce law and relentless pushing what they could not win by force of arms: control of the gringo wealth, domination of the gringo land.
The return of the Caudillos.
That's all it is. A stupid, low brow, troglodyte game.
No offense taken. I am retired. We have lost the sense that a decent human being with a modicum of intelligence and common sense is of more worth than a warren of eggheads. Most of us have more real-world experience than the entire White House staff.
The alternate organizations is a good tactic. I think we need to start exposing what an “elite” education consists of these days. They have been living far too long on the shoulders of giants long gone.
Today the ivy league schools are largely frat houses with famous profs who give syposiums from time to time. There is nothing there which can’t be accessed these day on the internet. The value of the ivy leagues is, of course, the ability to make valuable lifelong connections to ensure the continued rule of the elite. The schools have a great deal of money and charge enormous tuition to ensure that only the rich and condescended-upon may attend.
The elite is seriously threatened by Sarah Palin because she is popular and people are becoming attracted to down-home honesty instead of high-flown pontificating. Notice how often they belittle her secondary education and, of course, completely denigrate her real-world education. The biggest threat to their world is for people to stop taking the elite to be elite instead of the effete, silly snobs they are.
Well said!
A number of homeschooling organizations have parallel track secondary & post secondary education programs, often along the lines of apprenticeship or mentoring. Many of these are through Christian home schooling programs. While there is a desire that their students avoid some of the less savory aspects of college life and left-wing professors, it often appears that the prime motivation is to provide the best possible education and training.
Content matters greatly, but format is also very important, hence the apprenticeship and mentoring methods. We have friends who used the Institute in Basic Life Principles courses and later their children were mentored by doctors and lawyers. http://iblp.org/iblp/about/whatwedo/education/
I also did a quick web search just now and found this group that uses the following method:
“Let’s say a homeschool graduate at age 17 or 18 wants to become a civil engineer. What should he do? At AME, we think the first step is to find a godly, experience civil engineer that that young man can work alongside in a mentorship. Maybe he works in a part-time mentorship under than engineer as he pursues formal study at a college at the same time. Maybe he works side by side with that engineer full time for the next 4 years until he eventually starts up on his own or joins that engineer’s business. Maybe the young man realizes that civil engineering wasn’t what he was looking for after all (and it didn’t take him 4 years of college and $150,000 to figure it out)!
No matter which way you approach it, the young man has a chance to experience the real-life business world, and be trained by an experienced master who will focus on his character, skills, and understanding of the business, not just his academics. It’s the tried-and-true method of learning that many of America’s founding fathers used, and it’s working again today.”
http://ameprogram.com/about-ame.html
I absolutely agree that mentoring is making a valuable comeback. For too long, the universities have billed themselves as the sole gatekeepers to success when, in reality, most real innovators and successful people are those who have broken out of the accepted mold and pursued their own dreams. Universities are good transmitters of tradition, of “accepted wisdom”, and of “correct attitudes”, but they are lousy at inspiring people to reach for greater heights. Professors are comfortable, they don’t like being trumped by their own students. (I worked at a private university many years ago and the academic vice-president and I were chatting once and he made an interesting observation. He said that as far as university faculty members are concerned, the French Revolution never happened.)
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