Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Jul 28 07:57:04 2005
"Examining bags? A real world alternative to examining your dental
records — after an explosion."
Arnold Ahlert NY Post
art
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)
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>(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
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
