I’ve been thinking a lot lately that the United States is no longer a nation of laws but rather a nation of lawyers. The purpose of lawyers nowadays seems to be to help whoever can pay their fees to skirt the law as it was written and to get away with whatever they want. What is on the books is a moot point. Law is really whatever the lawyers say it is. It has become nothing more than the manipulation of language by an elite group.
This is why the Fort Hood shooter case is languishing for two years, why no one calls out the obvious radical Islamist ideological motive.
Let me ask: If there is a pile of dead bodies and at least three witnesses, and a video of the shooting (until the NCO ordered the soldier to delete it) why was Hasan not taken out to face the firing squad the next day? Even the Ground Zero imam admits it was an act of terrorism, though in true moral equivalent fashion he puts the blame on America.
Ah, the date rape drug of moral equivalence. It is certainly doing its job to disarm America. What to speak of defending the citizens, the Deadbeat Administration will not even defend its service men and women who put their lives on the line to defend us from enemies. It arms the border patrol agents with bean bag rounds while it runs real guns across the border to end up in the hands of the very enemies against whose perfidy they swore an oath to protect us.
The inaction and lengthy process makes no sense – unless the enemy is in charge. That would explain everything. And with the date rape drug of moral equivalence called “sensitivity training” it was easy. It seems that Nidal Hasan is one of the protected class, along with whatever other tribal identity the statist Democrat Party desires to manipulate for votes and whoever else has done them favors and knows too much.
It is not the foreign enemies we need protection from now but rather the domestic ones; the ones that are the most dangerous and difficult to fight.
“No offense – but you’re killing us”
If I may be blunt: The statist Democrat-globalist alliance is choking the life out of America at the edge of the abyss. They want America’s treasure – money, land, minerals – and they are in the process of getting it. This is no time for political correctness, no time to worry about offending the sensitivities of those who wish us ill. We need defenders willing to make a vigorous effort to throw off those who attack the American ideal of representative government of free men by consent of the governed, to censure those who laugh at the idea of constitutional law.
The alternative to engaging in all out self defense is surrender. You can always become a Democrat, stop fighting and cash in. And if you get in trouble while following the dictates handed down to you by the oligarchs through the faceless, nameless bureaucracy don’t worry – they’ll get you a lawyer who will get you off the hook. Just ask Tony Rezko and Nidal Hasan.
Don’t miss this interview at the Daily Caller.
10 questions with ‘Schools for Misrule’ author Walter Olson
By Jamie Weinstein | March 6, 2011 | The Daily Caller
Walter Olson is the author of “Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America,” just released last week.
Olson, who is currently a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies and founder of the online blog Overlawyered.com, has been called the “intellectual guru of tort reform” by The Washington Post. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many other major publications, and has appeared as a commentator on numerous television shows, most interestingly “Oprah.”
He is also the author of three other books on legal issues and the American legal system.
Olson recently agreed to answer 10 questions from The Daily Caller about his new book:
1. Why did you decide to write the book?
I’d written three books about the destructive, sometimes zany excesses of our legal system. I knew most bad trends in the law are driven by bad ideas in the law schools. But I couldn’t find a book that told the story of how and why this keeps happening.
2. You write that the ideas taught at America’s top law schools are catastrophic for America. What are some of the ideas that you think are so harmful?
Many destructive areas of litigation in the courts today can be traced to very specific ideas that came into vogue in law schools. Take “educational equity.” Most states at this point have experienced court takeovers of education funding that have undercut local control of schools and shifted power to state governments and to organized provider groups such as teachers’ unions. Then there’s environmental impact review — the paralytic style of litigation that ties project planning up in knots without actually distinguishing good projects from bad. More recently you have the slavery reparations movement, a very destructive movement indeed, which drew much of its intellectual firepower from law profs at Harvard and elsewhere. The courts swatted that one down pretty quickly, and my book tells why. But an article in the Maine Law Review proposing the revival of Indian land claims in the Northeast touched off forty years of hurtful and largely futile litigation.
Incidentally, all four of the legal movements I just named drew support from the Ford Foundation’s big decades-long program of philanthropy aimed at using law schools to change the legal system. That’s part of the story too.
3. Why do you think the number one profession in Congress is lawyer? Is that good for society?
Lawyers have been rising to the top in America since Tocqueville’s day. But only in the second half of the 20th Century, I would argue, did the profession’s intellectual leaders begin to see lawyers as society’s natural governing class. One reason this is dangerous is that — as University of Tennessee law prof Benjamin Barton shows in an excellent new book — lawyers and judges display much class solidarity in arranging rules so as to advance lawyers’ interests, favoring legal complexity that itself creates a wider call for lawyers’ services.
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