The thread previously known as 'Lerner presumably'

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 6:11 PM -0500 2/17/03, John Mage wrote:
>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>[some crude redbaiting, ending as follows]
>
>>  That too many progressive groups wait for pressure from more
>>  moderate forces to exclude the WWP is to their discredit. The WWP
>>  should be excluded from rallies not because they attack other
>>  groups politics but because their own politics are so henious. I
>>  wouldn't care if the KKK was against the war on Iraq; I'd want them
>>   excluded from the platform as well.
>>
>>  Nathan Newman Vice President, NYC National Lawyers Guild Former
>>  National Vice President (Note my views do not reflect those of the
>>  NLG national leadership)
>
>To clear up the implication (by what we lawyers call "negativa
>pregnans") that these views DO reflect those of the NYC NLG leadership,

*****   BYLAWS OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
As amended October 2001

...SECTION 5 - OFFICERS AND STAFF IDENTIFICATION
Officers and staff may sign statements as individuals and identify 
their position within the organization if it is noted that the 
organization is listed for identification purposes only....

<http://www.nlg.org/members/NLG_Bylaws_2001.pdf>   *****

*****   pregnant negative, in Logic [L. propositio categorica 
negativa prægnans in Paulus Nicolettus Venetus, 15th c., Prantl IV. 
129, note 545]: see quot. 1890. negative pregnant, in Law, a negative 
implying or involving an affirmative.

<http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00187055/00187055se4>   *****
-- 
Yoshie

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