I agree with Doug, Nathan. Your ideas are more and more disturbing. Michael Tigar, whose activities virtually define what counts as rightesous political lawyering, defended Terry Nichols. My own First Amendment teacher made his bones, as it were, defending the Nazis in the Skokie-Nazi case. My own pro bono work largely consists, btw, in trying to get manifestly guilty convicted murderers out of jail in post-conviction proceedings. jks
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center has zero
> chance of eliciting such
> >a response, and I think it's dangerous for the Left
> to fit this case into
> >the general paradigm of righteous political
> lawyering.
>
> Neither is defending mobsters. But that doesn't mean
> the government
> should eavesdrop on Tony Soprano's lawyer.
>
> >The point here is that the best lawyers for those
> accused of being
> >terrorists are people who don't sympathize with
> their politics.
>
> That's not for us, or the government, to decide.
> You're sounding more
> like a State Department socialist every day.
>
> Doug
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