Where are the Lawyers of America?
CounterPunch
by Ralph Nader
10/06/07
The rogue regime of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney — so widely condemned for its unconstitutional, criminal Iraq war, its spying on Americans illegally, its repeated illegal torture practices, its arrests and imprisonment of thousands in this country without charges and its pathological secrecy and corporate corruption — still has not felt the heat of the 800,000 practicing lawyers and their many bar organizations. Lawyer jokes aside, the first defense outside of government against the rejection of due process, probable cause and habeas corpus should come from the officers of the courts — the attorneys of America. With few exceptions, they have flunked, asleep at the switch or loaded with excuses...
https://www.counterpunch.org/nader10062007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ralph+Nader
by Ralph Nader
10/06/07
The rogue regime of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney — so widely condemned for its unconstitutional, criminal Iraq war, its spying on Americans illegally, its repeated illegal torture practices, its arrests and imprisonment of thousands in this country without charges and its pathological secrecy and corporate corruption — still has not felt the heat of the 800,000 practicing lawyers and their many bar organizations. Lawyer jokes aside, the first defense outside of government against the rejection of due process, probable cause and habeas corpus should come from the officers of the courts — the attorneys of America. With few exceptions, they have flunked, asleep at the switch or loaded with excuses...
https://www.counterpunch.org/nader10062007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ralph+Nader
rudkla - 8. Okt, 15:43
