As The 9/11 Commission Fiddles...
By Irwin N. Graulich (07/27/04)
Not a single authority on terrorism. Not one FBI, CIA or police expert. Not even an individual immersed in Middle East politics. No wonder their opinions are rather hackneyed. A group of intelligent teenagers could have arrived at very similar conclusions for virtually every incident from Pearl Harbor to the Kennedy assassination.
Government waste at its very best, with the purpose being to deflect blame away from Congress and the true culprits. In life, "stuff happens." Unfortunately, it is trial lawyers like John Edwards who have given our society an excuse for everything. The words "accident" and "unpreventable" are being removed from our lexicon. Instead, blame, fault, "I want to get paid" or "Let's create a new government bureaucracy" have become Washington's false gods.
Commissioners/Counselors Hamilton, Ben-Veniste, Fielding, Gorelick, Gorton, Roemer and Thompson all believe their legal expertise has made America safer. Among the remaining three non attorney commissioners, only former Secretary of the Navy Lehman seems qualified. Messrs. Kerry and Hamilton actually walked out on the President and Vice President during testimony at the White House, because they probably had more important things to do. Yet this "diverse" Commission ultimately concluded, "With dismay, we think more could have been done since 9/11 to detect and defeat terrorist plots." What more could possibly have been accomplished, with no successful attacks on American soil?
Trial lawyers are indeed the cancer of our society. Edwards et. al have taken an honorable profession and turned it into a legal house of ill repute. Their courtroom antics have given people with big dreams a new type of lottery ticket, while murderers and other violent criminals are awarded get out of jail cards. These skilled orators use their God-given talents to find errors in a police report filled with thousands of discoveries, or learn to twist an inexperienced witness' testimony. Would the great Perry Mason have ever found fault with a product that was totally misused by a consumer or blamed McDonald's for someone eating way too many hamburgers and french fries?
The creation of this "shifting blame mentality" away from the average citizen and towards companies with deep pockets is even more dangerous to America than terrorism. Trial lawyers are America's version of al-Qaeda, ruining more lives every day. Morality has a different meaning in terrorist training camps and law schools. Their primary interests are winning for their clients whether they represent Osama or OJ. Just ask many of these legal combatants who need major therapy to cope with their own after-trial guilt and shame.
Using the law to insure product quality, honesty, better behavior and safer automobiles is certainly a noble endeavor. In fact, protection of all citizens is the ultimate purpose of government and laws. However, when an important concept is taken to the extreme, fanaticism takes over and leads to evil. Unfair lawsuits against important research-oriented drug companies, dedicated doctors and product innovators have added expense and problems to our lives.
Enter Johnnie Cochrane, Alan Dershowitz, Ron Kuby, William Kunstler, Mark Geragos, Robert Shapiro and a host of their American al-Qaeda type brothers waving the Constitution like hijackers wave The Koran. Do these partners in courtroom terrorism do some good things? Of course. bin Laden did some good things in Afghanistan against the Soviets. Adolf Hitler built highways in Germany and Saddam gave many Iraqis free education. What is much more important are the long-term ramafications of their efforts.
One of the great lies within our democracy is the misleading idea that our elected officials represent the broad fabric of our society. We hear, "Congress is diverse." What a joke! There are white lawyers and black lawyers and Hispanic lawyers and women lawyers and Jewish lawyers and Asian lawyers. How about a waiter, a sanitation worker, truck driver, dentist or storekeeper representing us? Their everyday life experiences have given them much more wisdom than law schools and fancy restaurants in Washington DC.
Representatives have made the rules so difficult that even under McCain-Feingold, the only people who are able to get elected to Congress are lawyers or millionaires who can buy their seats, with an ability to ultimately move on to be appointed as investigative emissaries of their own government bureaucracy. Just read the 500+ page report of the 9/11 Commission. What a waste of 50 million bucks!
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