The thread previously known as 'Lerner presumably'

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Mon Feb 17 17:45:02 PST 2003


Thomas Seay wrote:

> Let's see. John Mage took a posting from this list and sent it into

> the National Lawyers Guild, ostensibly to get you in trouble.

>

> First of all, John sounds like a fink, and I would like to hear the

> fink's rationale for this action.

Gladly, but only once. "Fink's rationale" follows: I have belonged to the New York Chapter of the Guild for 34 years, I am proud to say. Nathan Newman signed the post in question as follows:

> Nathan Newman Vice President, NYC National Lawyers Guild Former

> National Vice President (Note my views do not reflect those of the

> NLG national leadership)

This implies*, that while his views do not reflect those of the NLG national leadership they _do_ reflect those of the NYC NLG leadership - expecially given that he had identified himself as "Nathan Newman Vice President, NYC National Lawyers Guild."

Upset were that to be the case, I forwarded the post as signed in the fashion set out above to the President of the NYC NLG and inquired if that implication were correct. I am very glad it is not.

john mage

*at least since 1311, during the reign of the great gay Edward II (_Thurmeton_ v. _Pouterel_ 63 Selden Soc. 216 at p.220). To spell it out, by qualifying a negative ("...do not reflect those of the NLG _national leadership_") to limit it to one of several possibilities makes the negative "pregnant" with the affirmation of the excluded option.



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