Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!
From: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD (zygote@icsi.net)
Thu Jul 28 06:02:37 2005
Thanks, a great article. Real common sense.
On 27 Jul 2005 at 17:08, RModugno@aol.com wrote:
>
> You tell 'em Jackie!
> Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG
> Marietta, GA
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> Who'd thunk? Lawyers coming to aid of would-be terrorists
> By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder
>
> (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0705/mason072705.php3?printer_frien
> dly)
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> (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/templates/email2.php?article_title=W
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> ewishworldreview.com/0705/mason072705.php3&sentúlse&ccMe=no) Abraham
> Lincoln noted that "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for
> the stormy present." With terrorists blowing up trains, buses and the
> tallest building in the United States, you don't need Abraham Lincoln
> to tell you that things cannot remain "business as usual." You don't
> need Abraham Lincoln to tell you that lawyers would better serve
> humanity if they continued to chase their secretaries around their
> desks rather than meddle in the affairs of the real world, attempting
> to apply antiquated notions of what is legal and proper to today's
> chaotic and dangerous world.
>
> New York City's Police Commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, has sensibly
> started having police inspect parcels and the backpacks of New York
> subway riders. His is no idle concern since trains in Moscow, Madrid,
> and London have already been blown up by terrorists. We have learned
> that subway and tunnel bombs are particularly heinous because they
> create a constricted area wherein the explosions do their deadly
> damage.
>
> Predictably, the lawyers have come to the aid of the would-be
> terrorists. As we speak, outraged lawyers are sharpening their
> pencils and have come out of the woodwork, setting themselves up to
> challenge the Police Department's actions.
>
> Donna Liebermann, the executive director of the New York City Civil
> Liberties Union, has already begun work on a federal lawsuit to
> inhibit the police. Like the sea gulls that pounce on garbage from
> the tugboats in New York harbor, there will certainly be many other
> lawyers assaulting rationality with lawsuits seeking the same relief.
>
> Surely common sense has fled the field of battle. If these package
> searches are able to save one only one person's life, they will all be
> worthwhile. Terrorists feed on lack of defensive preparedness and the
> absence of police. If a terrorist had to choose between a soft target
> that was unguarded, and one with a heavy police presence and,
> additionally, subjecting the potential terrorist to search, he or she
> would certainly choose the unprotected target. Terrorists may be
> crazy, demonic, and filled with hate, but they are not stupid.
>
> (https://www.kerenyehoshuavyisroel.com/keren/jwr/donate.cfm) The
> possibility that a search may reveal drugs or illegal weapons is a
> plus — not a minus. People shouldn't be walking around our city in
> possession of illegal guns, drugs, etc., bringing them from one part
> of town to another. Being aware of the risks to their delivery system
> by entering highly guarded venues, they probably would have the
> common sense not to ride the subway — which would create a safer
> environment not only for the riders but, perhaps, for New Yorkers in
> general. This, of course, leads to another conclusion.
>
> There is no law, body of law, or constitutional authority that gives
> anyone the right to ride the subway. There is no body of law or
> constitutional authority mandating that a municipality is required to
> provide a subway system. It is offered to the public, and if members
> of the public feel that availing itself of such transportation is not
> in their interest, particularly since they might be searched, they
> are perfectly free to walk — preferably away from the City.
>
> Superimposed upon all of this is the nonsense about racial profiling.
> You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that the bombers in the
> past have not been blond-haired, blue-eyed Scandinavian transsexuals
> wearing snowshoes. Virtually all of the bombings have been
> perpetrated by certain groups of people coming from one particular
> part of the world. It would make no sense to deny our police the
> right to husband their resources and direct it toward those most
> likely perpetrators rather than have to waste their time — and risk
> our safety — searching little old ladies. We have the best police
> force in the world. Many of the police officers are members of
> minorities themselves, and, as a matter of fact, in the last
> graduation of police officers, the minority was the majority of the
> new recruits. The police know the profiles of potential bombers and
> they should be allowed to do their job. This is not a case of
> profiling people because of their ethnicity, or harassing them, or
> denigrating them simply because of their race or ethnicity. This is
> simply a sensible protective action that logically can be most
> effective when directed towards the certain known groups of people
> most likely to commit the crime.
>
> All of this is not to suggest that there will come a time, hopefully
> sooner rather than later, that none of this will be necessary, but in
> the interim, let us err — if err it is — on the side of saving
> lives
>
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Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD
6624 Fannin, #2720
St. Luke's Medical Tower
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