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"To defend the powerful in a system designed to accomodate them is unethical."
Something about this commment really disturbs me. I'm really not that articulate this late in the day, but here's the thing, slicknlover, I can understand and on some level agree with your objections to Holder for his work with Chiquita. I hate Chiquita banana. They are the devil.
But what if the powerful are on the side of justice? Or, are they inherently, because they are powerful and have been accomodated, unethical and by extention anyone who defends them are unethical? (I made myself dizzy there.)
To be honest, I think what you really want to say here is immoral. It's morally wrong not to fight the power. I know morality has a religious connotation, but ethics, especially when talking about the law, which is in and of itself a system with its own set of ethics, is too loaded a term to use.
