[Politics] Disbar Alan Dershowitz
Mar. 17th, 2005 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweedThe Rude Pundit relayed this joke a while back:
A man is sitting in a bar grousing. "You spend your whole life building bridges, they don't call you John the bridge builder. You spend your whole life baking, they don't call you John the baker. But you fuck JUST ONE GOAT!!!!
From this we derive the notion of the "goat-fucking moment." This an act so horrible, so egregious that it is something that can never be overlooked, it is what defines you now and forever, and nothing you ever do or say will make up for the fact that you did this thing.
I assert that supporting or defending torture is such a goat-fucking moment. Rule 1 is there is no excuse for torture. Rule 2 is if you think you have an excuse, see rule 1.
Alan Dershowitz recently said:
But placing a sterilized needle under somebody’s fingernails for fifteen minutes, causing excruciating pain but no permanent physical damage - is that torture?
Frankly, if he really isn't clear on the matter my suggestion to him is to have a go at it and report back to the class on whether he found it torturous. It's rather clear that his intent is to follow in Abu Gonzalez footsteps to define away some at least some torture.
Matthew Hale was disbarred on the grounds that his bigotry made him morally unfit to practise law. I submit that trying to excuse or permit torture renders one morally unfit to practise law as well.
Alan Dershowitz fucked the goat.
A man is sitting in a bar grousing. "You spend your whole life building bridges, they don't call you John the bridge builder. You spend your whole life baking, they don't call you John the baker. But you fuck JUST ONE GOAT!!!!
From this we derive the notion of the "goat-fucking moment." This an act so horrible, so egregious that it is something that can never be overlooked, it is what defines you now and forever, and nothing you ever do or say will make up for the fact that you did this thing.
I assert that supporting or defending torture is such a goat-fucking moment. Rule 1 is there is no excuse for torture. Rule 2 is if you think you have an excuse, see rule 1.
Alan Dershowitz recently said:
But placing a sterilized needle under somebody’s fingernails for fifteen minutes, causing excruciating pain but no permanent physical damage - is that torture?
Frankly, if he really isn't clear on the matter my suggestion to him is to have a go at it and report back to the class on whether he found it torturous. It's rather clear that his intent is to follow in Abu Gonzalez footsteps to define away some at least some torture.
Matthew Hale was disbarred on the grounds that his bigotry made him morally unfit to practise law. I submit that trying to excuse or permit torture renders one morally unfit to practise law as well.
Alan Dershowitz fucked the goat.