Coulter: WHAT'S ARABIC FOR 'YOU'RE NO ATTICUS FINCH'?(Santa's "naughty" list)

A group of "leading conservative lawyers" -- a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" -- has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.

The letter calls Cheney's demand "shameful," before unleashing this steaming pile of idiocy:

"The American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre."

Yes, but even John Adams didn't take a job with the government for another 19 years after defending the British guards -- who, in 1770, were "the police." He also didn't take a position with the U.S. government that involved processing British murder suspects.

I'd be more interested in hearing about the sacred duty of lawyers to defend "unpopular clients" if we were talking about clients who are unpopular with anyone lawyers know.

Every white shoe law firm in the country has been clamoring to take the cases of Guantanamo detainees, while young associates line up to be put on the case. This is even more fun than defending Ted Bundy!

As The Wall Street Journal put it in a 2007 article, a list of the law firms representing Guantanamo detainees "reads like a who's who of America's most prestigious law firms" -- which conveniently doubles as Santa's "naughty" list.

The terrorists' lawyers have included Shearman and Sterling, Arnold & Porter; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; Covington & Burling; Hunton & Williams; Sullivan & Cromwell; Debevoise & Plimpton; King & Spalding; Cleary Gottlieb, Morrison & Foerster; Jenner & Block; O'Melveny & Myers and Sidley Austin.

At least 34 of the 50 largest firms in the United States have performed pro bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.

Years ago, when I nearly died of boredom working for a law firm, I heard whispered rumors about a partner, Michael Tierney, whom none of the female associates wanted to work with because his pro bono work included defending -- gasp! -- pro-life groups. (There was at least one female associate who wanted to work with him!)

I didn't hear a peep about the august "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients" back then.

Like Hollywood actresses, lawyers need to believe they're noble and courageous to help them forget that they are corporate drones doing soul-destroying work, which mostly consists of making photocopies.

Defending terrorists gives status-conscious attorneys a chance to get standing ovations at the annual ABA convention -- much like promoting "global warming" makes climatologists feel like they're saving the world, rather than studying water vapor.

It took me exactly one Nexis search for "ABA," "award" and "Guantanamo" to find that the 2006 "Outstanding Scholar Award" at the ABA annual banquet was given to New York University law professor Anthony G. Amsterdam for his "extensive pro bono practice, litigating cases that range from civil rights claims, to death penalty defense, to claims of access to the courts for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay."

A rule I have is: You're not defending an unpopular client if you're getting awards from the ABA, particularly if the award mentions "courage."

Great picture, Rummyfan!

Here's is a little blurb from Chairman Ann's sidebar:

March 10, 2010, 7:41 PM

ARTICLE 42 OF THE SOVIET CONSTITUTION -

Article 42. Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection.

This right is ensured by free, qualified medical care provided by state health institutions; by extension of the network of therapeutic and health-building institutions; by the development and improvement of safety and hygiene in industry; by carrying out broad prophylactic measures; by measures to improve the environment; by special care for the health of the rising generation, including prohibition of child labour, excluding the work done by children as part of the school curriculum; and by developing research to prevent and reduce the incidence of disease and ensure citizens a long and active life.

Hey, does anyone know how that worked out?

WHAT'S ARABIC FOR 'YOU'RE NO ATTICUS FINCH'?

I think it's:

Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin

Oh, wait, it really means:

Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Except for the Persia thingy, the rest fits. ;o)

Clarence Paige weighed in Sunday jumping up and down with joy that a blonde woman was busted as a terrorist.

It's at the chicagotribune

Thank you, "JihadJane"...
For years we have been hearing pundits and politicians argue for profiling Arabs and Muslims, as if ramping up our prejudices were all we need to do to protect ourselves from bombers and hijackers.

Oh good C. Page, knowing that MOST terrorists are Muslim males (OK, only about 99.3%) and thinking they need to be watched closely is "ramping up our prejudices" is it, or is that subtle-speak for using the race card?

Next he "ramps up" his prejudices by attacking Ann Coulter for something she said 6 years ago.

...conservative columnist Ann Coulter has gone further, calling on airlines to brag about how often they are sued by unfairly inconvenienced Arabs and Muslims. "Imagine the great slogans the airlines could use," she wrote in a 2004 column: " ‘Now frisking all Arabs — twice!' "

Coulter came to mind when I heard about JihadJane, the curiously conspicuous moniker used online by Colleen LaRose of Pennsburg, Pa., indicted last week on terrorism charges.
In pictures released to news media, LaRose doesn't look Middle Eastern. She looks more like, say, Ann Coulter.
That was part of LaRose's plan

Well, duh!

Mr.Page is just now catching on that the Islamic terrorist organizations have been recruiting non-Islamic terrorist looking people to do their dirty work.

Good Job, Page on the catching up thingie.

Mr Page later comments that he and his Palestinian friends don't oppose all profiling, because they don't want to get blown up either.

Some of your Palestinian friends do mister-in fact not only themselves but they also like to take a lot of innocent people with them also.

Just another man who doesn't "get" Coulter, and has fallen into the throes of CES (Coulter Emasculation Syndrome.)

Back to Page's first paragraph in this op-ed:

Thank you, "JihadJane" for making a point about racial profiling that I've been trying to make for years: You can't judge a potential terrorist by his complexion — or, in this case, her complexion.

News flash Mr. Page: we've been profiling non-Islamic people all along...a LOT more than we have those that fit the profile of most terrorists.

So your "thank you" to a terrorist is a little strange and. frankly, suspect. Have you been waiting "for years" to do that?

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