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• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:38 AM

  I'm with usmlrf on this and I think a distinction needs to be drawn

  between defending individuals and the due process that assures individuals aren't deprived of their liberty falsely and defending the Chiquitas of the world who break the law as part of a profit driven cost/benefit analysis--where the only downside is a adverse money judgement and very rarely a criminal or civil one against the individuals who personally hide behind a legal fiction to prevent their amoral decisions from having personal consequences. As much as the law has set the precedent that fictional legal entities and living breathing human beings have the same rights it has become quite clear that entities have greater access and ability to protect their "rights" than do humans because of money. And that simply doesn't comport with most people's sense of Justice. There is a difference of which Glen is quite aware, and he should speak to that. Is that to suggest all corporate lawyers are bad (no--some are even donating their time to defend Guantanamo detainees under threat that their corporate clients might take their business elsewhere--but there can still be legitimate questions about a corporate lawyer's do-gooder motivation given their normal client base).

  As far as Holder goes, almost anybody (including that self oiling nutbag Ashcroft) is an improvement over Consigliere Gonzalez.

  —rrheard Read rrheard's other letters
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