Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!
From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)
Wed Jul 27 20:43:59 2005
A lawyer here in Illinois had the audacity to call the river that runs
through our town an "attractive nuisance" (direct quote from the local
paper). A 9-year-old boy was allowed to go to the library without an
adult and decided to go out the back door and across the parking lot to
play on the edge of the river, where he fell in and drowned. Now his
mom is suing the city and the library for not fencing off the RIVER.
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Anna Meenan, MD
At Wed, 27 Jul 2005, RModugno@aol.com wrote:
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>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 =20
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>By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder
>
> (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0705/mason072705.php3?printer_friendly)
>
>(http://www.jewishworldreview.com/templates/email2.php?article_title=Who& 39;d+thunk?+Lawyers+coming+to+aid+of+would-be+terrorists
>&article_author=Jackie+Mason+&+Raoul+Felder+&article_date=July+27,+2005 article_url=http://www.j
>ewishworldreview.com/0705/mason072705.php3&sentúlse&ccMe=no) Abraham
>Lincoln noted that "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the st rmy
>present." With terrorists blowing up trains, buses and the tallest buildin 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 ou that
>lawyers would better serve humanity if they continued to chase their
>secretaries around their desks rather than meddle in the affairs of the re l world,
>attempting to apply antiquated notions of what is legal and proper to toda 's
>chaotic and dangerous world.
>
>New York City's Police Commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, has sensibly starte
>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 alr ady
>been blown up by terrorists. We have learned that subway and tunnel bombs re
>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. s
>we speak, outraged lawyers are sharpening their pencils and have come out o
>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 w th
>lawsuits seeking the same relief.
>
>Surely common sense has fled the field of battle. If these package searche
>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 polic . If
>a terrorist had to choose between a soft target that was unguarded, and on
>with a heavy police presence and, additionally, subjecting the potential
>terrorist to search, he or she would certainly choose the unprotected targe .
>Terrorists may be crazy, demonic, and filled with hate, but they are not st pid.
>
> (https://www.kerenyehoshuavyisroel.com/keren/jwr/donate.cfm) The
>possibility that a search may reveal drugs or illegal weapons is a plus â €” 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 o 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 anyon
>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 sy tem. 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 aw y 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 ot
>been blond-haired, blue-eyed Scandinavian transsexuals wearing snowshoes.
>Virtually all of the bombings have been perpetrated by certain groups of pe ple
>coming from one particular part of the world. It would make no sense to den
>our police the right to husband their resources and direct it toward those
>most likely perpetrators rather than have to waste their time — an risk our
>safety — searching little old ladies. We have the best police forc in the
>world. Many of the police officers are members of minorities themselves, a d, as a
>matter of fact, in the last graduation of police officers, the minority wa
>the majority of the new recruits. The police know the profiles of potentia
>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 denigra ing
>them simply because of their race or ethnicity. This is simply a sensible
>protective action that logically can be most effective when directed towar s 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 soone
>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
