Holding Them Responsible …
Sue’em All!
Posted on 01/25/2003 5:48:06 PM PST by spartagroup
Such attorneys could help people like Lilly Blumenthal of Bethesda, Maryland, who came into the news recently. It all started when she reached frantically for the pistol in her night table after hearing an intruder yank open her bedroom door.
Lilly grabbed the new, black Glock, flicked on a lamp and raised the pistol as the masked man stepped through the doorway.
"Stop or I’ll shoot!" Lilly shouted.
The prowler accelerated towards the bed.
"Oh, no!" she screamed. The Glock had one of those new built-in trigger locks mandated by Maryland law. She fumbled but failed to remove it in time as the man bellowed and leaped onto her.
But hey, the intruder raped her only six times, after smacking the harmless pistol out of her hand.
Well, the Glock wasn’t exactly useless. The guy did pick it up and whack her in the head with the barrel when she didn’t comply quickly enough with his "requests."
The New York Times emphasized the single biggest positive outcome of the incident upon publishing a long feature article on Lilly, i.e., Maryland’s new gun law had worked to perfection in one of its first tests, as no child was injured playing with the weapon.
"After all, a playground is located just down the street from Ms. Blumenthal’s apartment," the Times could well have pointed out in this article. "In her panic, a non-experienced civilian such as Ms. Blumenthal might well have let off a stray shot, which could have exited her bedroom in just such a way as to leave through the window, deflect off a tree, bounce around the corner and just maybe strike an INNOCENT child playing in the yard at 3:00 am. Can we really risk that?"
Some lawyers advised Lily to sue Glock for producing a "defective" lock, but she believed the lock had worked exactly as designed . . . by the new Maryland law.
"So, why not litigate against the people who pushed through this gun lock law," Lily decided. "My case is far stronger than a lot of mega-lawsuits I’ve read about, for cigarette smoking or asbestos. We have a direct correlation of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the Second Amendment, for goodness sakes, the Bill of Rights, and it led straight to the attack on me."
Lilly’s lawyers began by suing the anti-gun groups who proudly took credit for the new law, then went on to add the Washington Post and the New York Times to the list of defendants, and then CNN as well.
"We’re using the civil provisions of the Rico statues that Congress developed to break up organized crime, but leftist lawyers thankfully showed us how it could be exploited when they utilized it against abortion protestors and other groups they wanted to squelch," said Ms. Blumenthal’s lead attorney, Jeremiah Blotter. "We feel that the so-called gun control groups and their media allies have acted in a wide ranging criminal conspiracy to deny American citizens their constitutional rights, i.e, those rights clearly laid out in the Second Amendment. I mean, people sue all the time, claiming that someone is infringing on their civil rights or their rights to privacy, based on some hazy interpretation of one article or another of the Constitution. Here, we have a clearly defined constitutional right, and clearly defined conspirators."
Just as fee-gouging tort lawyers sought out favorable juries for their cases in rural Mississippi counties or inner city neighborhoods, Trotter found a way to bring his case in conservative Prince William County, Virginia, which has ten times as many churches as bars, nearly every household holds a weapon or two, and where Federal prosecutors sent John Muhammed, one of the Washington D.C. sniper suspects, for what they hope will be a speedy and conclusive trial, ending in the death penalty.
Among the groups sued were Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse Inc., whose president, Matt Fenton, told the Washington Post with self-satisfaction in the December 31st article how his group promoted the new law so that it "will save lives. It's the way of the future."
Here’s your summons, then, Mr. Fenton.
The lawsuit also named the Montgomery County chapter of the Million Mom March, whose director, Lillian Pubillones Nolan, was quoted in the same Post article as saying that her group backed the law because it "will help protect Maryland's children."
Here’s your summons as well, Ms. Pubillones "But what about the adults who actually own the weapons, Ms. Publillones Nolan?" Ms. Blumenthal’s lawsuit said.
Blotter also successfully petitioned the court to have original tapes of interviews that reporters for the Post and the Times conducted with the gun control groups turned over to him.
"Those tapes showed that the simpering reporters even gave advice to the groups when they conducted their so-called interviews, which were more like strategy and mutually support sessions than anything else," Blotter said. "We say it’s like shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. Sure, the First Amendment protects freedom of the press, but not reporters who are conspiring to overturn another of the Bill of Rights."
The lawyer said such meetings resulted in editorials like the one the Post published on January 4th:
Blotter’s lawsuit charged that the gun control groups and the cited media conglomerates "knew, or should have known, that the trigger guard would render the pistol useless in an emergency, that you showed a callous disregard for the life and property of the plaintiff as you secretly conspired, whether publicly or with implied mutual consent, to circumvent the Second Amendment."
The jury stayed out less than an hour. They awarded Ms. Blumenthal $20 million in compensatory damages and $3.6 billion in punitive and "pain and suffering" damages.
Blotter said that a big factor in the victory was the whistle blower who turned over to the defense secretly recorded tapes that demonstrated the conspiracy’s real purpose was to eliminate all gun ownership in America – not by promoting a perfectly legal constitutional measure to overturn the Second Amendment, but by stealth, by passing dozens of laws that would so restrict gun ownership so as to make it impractical.
"Well, I guess we didn’t need that secret tape, as they are clear about their true goals, which is to illegally make the Second Amendment irrelevant," Blotter said. "I would have to say that the defendants were flabbergasted by the decision that they couldn’t conspire to deny Americans their constitutional rights, after they and their ilk had sued over the violation of so many faux constitutional rights."
Blotter said that he was setting up a new law firm, True Justice, which would represent a wide array of wronged individuals and groups who reluctantly have concluded that they must join the scoundrels and sue as well.
"Unlike the left, my new firm will protect clients who had actual constitutional rights violated, not those derived from people smoking this or that, on ‘inferred’ or ‘shadow’ rights."
His new cases include lawsuits against:
American Federation of Teachers – This group has conspired criminally to deprive millions of American school children of their rights to an education (legal term: "failure to learn’em") so as to preserve their perks and high salaries, while avoiding new rules that would hold them accountable for actually teaching something to their pupils.
Blotter found a way to file suit in rural North Carolina, representing taxpayers whose federal tax dollars had gone to support Washington D.C. public schools, which spend nearly $11,000 per student, 40 percent more than the national average, more than twice as North Carolina counties, yet producing students who consistently score 40 percent lower than the national average on achievement tests.
Reparations Now! – True Justice, will file a $134 billion lawsuit against this group that seeks taxpayers’ money today to turn over to descendants of slaves (as well as to descendents of slave-sellers, i.e., recent African immigrants whose ancestors captured and sold other Africans to the Europeans). Blotter will file a class action suit on behalf of descendants of the more than 30,000 Union soldiers, 99.7 percent white, who died during the Civil War to end slavery.
"People who died in battle made the greatest sacrifice, and their progeny should be rewarded first," Blotter said. "End of story."
Planned Parenthood of America (PPA) – True Justice , will file a class action suit on behalf of thousands of once-pregnant women who sought pregnancy counseling at Planned Parenthood over the past 30 years and were steered 100 percent to abortion clinics, which left nearly all these women swamped with guilt as the years passed, often with the lost babies crying in the middle of the night, waking up the women.
The firm has found women now living in Baptist-heavy counties of rural Alabama who once had abortions after PPA counseling.
"I think we will find very friendly juries in Alabama," Blotter said.
Wall Street Project (Jesse Jackson’s cash cow – The Rev. Jackson used the Wall Street Project to shake down dozens of financial firms and other large companies, threatening them with lawsuits and charges of racism unless they coughed up big bucks and favorable partnerships for designated minority enterprises, all of which are linked to Jackson’s relatives and intimates.
"These settlements resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses by shareholders from the firms targeted by Jackson, many of whom are joining my class action suit against the Project," Blotter said.
International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) – All leaders of the current anti-war movements have learned one major lesson from the anti-Vietnam War movement and now declare themselves "American patriots," fervently declaring by rote: "I love my country."
As journalist Michael Kelly makes clear in a Washington Post column on Jan. 21st, 2003, old-line Stalinists created International ANSWER, which organized the latest nation-wide protests in January of 2003, most of which were headlined by violently anti-American speakers.
"We found some grandmothers in sneakers and high school class presidents who attended these protests and were profoundly offended by the tenor of the speeches," Blotter said. "They were worried about the U.S. entering a foreign war, and who isn’t, but the speakers drenched them in tirade after tirade that labeled the U.S. as the world’s number one criminal nation. We’ll maybe file this suit in San Diego, where we could find a tidy, patriotic jury pool of retired military personnel and their families."
Amnesty International – Blotter will file suit against this organization for knowingly issuing reports that criticized alleged U.S. violations of human rights in its campaign against Islamic terrorists, while turning a blind eye, as it were, to wholesale torture and executions by politically correct regimes in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
"I gave my money to Amnesty thinking that they would protect prisoners of conscience around the world," said Sebastian Freedman, one American who joined True Justice’s, class action suit.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – True Justice, will bring a class action suit on behalf of all Christmas shoppers who have spent literally billions of dollars each year to celebrate the holiday, only to have their sensibilities dashed when ACLU backed mean-spirited individuals who try to get the holiday declared unconstitutional.
Earth First, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace – With the coldest January in decades wracking the American Northeast, True Justice, will launch a combined lawsuit against all of these groups for their false "The sky is falling, global warming is coming, send us money, money, money!" fund-raising appeals over the past two decades.
"The aim is to win a big enough award in order to buy a gargantuan V-8 SUV for each of the plaintiffs," Blotter said.
People for the American Way – True Justice </font, will file a lawsuit against this organization for its fraudulent name.
"The people who formed this group detest the American way," Blotter says. "They are trying to destroy all of the traditions and rights that the United States used to become the preeminent nation in the world today. They hate our patriotism, they hate our self-reliance, they hate our religious nature. Under the ‘American way,’ haters of America certainly have the right to exist and to promote their vile values, but they have no right to expect that such views would be given any equal space in national debate."
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) -- True Justice, will bring a lawsuit against GLAAD and other homosexual rights groups to halt their criminal conspiracy against the Boy Scouts.
"These groups have embarked on a national conspiracy to eject the Boy Scouts from all public places for the sole reason that their membership code rejects homosexual members and especially leaders," says Blotter.
True Justice, plans to file this lawsuit in a suburban Alabama county. The lawsuit will juxtapose the Boy Scout oath to GLAAD priorities.
The Boy Scout oath:
,I>On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
The lawsuit will compare the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Boy Scout community projects carried out over the decades with what GLAAD has offered to America, and most of all, True Justice, will ask the parents of the jury how they would feel about having GLAAD members join the Boy Scouts and take their sons out to the woods on weekend camping trips.
Where are the pro-Second-Amendment lawyers who will take cases pro-bono?
The left sues, and sues, and sues--planning to lose, and lose, and lose.
Eventually they will hit a friendly jury--and that is what they are counting on.
As I put it, let us make them "worship at the altar of Our Lady of Perpetual Litigation"--for, say, "conspiracy against the Bill of Rights".
Make up any legal theory, and keep pushing it until you get a $400 billion win. Even if you lose, you eat up their resources in litigation costs. This is their tactic, and it simply confounds me as to why we don't use it against them.
--Boris
Best regards,
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