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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder

Is Obama's likely nominee for Attorney General an encouraging sign for advocates of the Constitution and the rule of law?

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:05 AM

    Simple solution

    All attorneys should work for free, that way the evil rich money won't taint them. Because a lack of evil rich money taint is important when appointing Government officials, and is paid close attention by the powers that be when making such decisions.

    Besides, rich = evil.. or something, so a rich corporation is evil. Evil richness calls for an automatic presumption of guilt. Just imagine: a passionate lawyer got rich doing something it loved like practicing law. What a scumbag.

    Oh wait... nevermind... I see now...

    I don't have a problem with the defense of the unpopular. I am a member of one of the most maligned sub-groups in the world, and I appreciate the fact that there are always those who are willing to engage the opprobrium to make sure justice is served.

    Its the profit motive behind law that makes me uneasy, not the defense of the unpopular.

    Poor baby. As usual, it is all about omooex strutting around making sure everyone knows just how much it sucks to be poor persecuted omooex. If you really understood how bad it sucks to be omooex, you'd hate evil money and rich corporations too. Omooex lives through the transitive property. omooex = maligned sub-group, Latin Americans = maligned sub-group, therefore Latin Americans = Omooex.

    The moral calculus is pretty simple. If it appears to be persecuting something then by the transitive property it is persecuting omooex and is therefore evil and rich (evilness and richness are the same thing) because omooex is neither (omooex = good, so !omooex = !good = bad).

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