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t is true that at times the government must act to protect the public’s welfare and balance personal liberties with public safety. Two popular quotes are that, “With great power comes great responsibility” and Edmund Burke, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” The ability to put a leash on someone’s personal liberty, when granted, must be used with great discretion.
Well said, Mr. Speaker. Now feast your eyes on these words:
Georgia State Bar Rule 4-108, Conduct Constituting Threat of Harm to Clients or Public; Emergency Suspension.
(a) Upon receipt of sufficient evidence demonstrating that an attorneys conduct poses a substantial threat of harm to his clients or the public and with the approval of the Immediate Past President of the State Bar of Georgia and the Chairperson of the Review Panel, or at the direction of the Chairperson of the Investigative Panel, the Office of General Counsel shall petition the Georgia Supreme Court for the suspension of the attorney pending disciplinary proceedings predicated upon the conduct causing such petition.
Surely flying on a crowded aircraft with drug-resistant tuberculosis meets the standard of substantial threat of harm to the public.
Technorati Tags: Andrew Speaker, CDC, TB
wfzimmerman’s review: “When I acquired this, Arthur Liman seemed a lot more likely to be remembered than he does today. I will probably deaccession this baby.”
PublicAffairs (1998), Hardcover, 386 pages
Democracy stuns Polish coma man – CNN.com
WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) — A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.
Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.
“It was Gertruda that saved me, and I’ll never forget it,” Grzebski told news channel TVN24.
“For 19 years Mrs. Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband’s position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections,” Super Express reported Dr. Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.
“When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere,” Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system’s economic collapse.
“Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin.”
Thank God for Ronald Reagan.
Technorati Tags: Poland, Berlin Wall
wfzimmerman’s review: “I re-read most of the Scudder books a couple of months ago. They’re terrific.”
William Morrow (1998), Hardcover, 336 pages
tags: Matthew Scudder, collecting author highlights
wfzimmerman’s review: “A cool "old school" account of famous American trials. I am the first LibraryThing user to own this book — that’s a first for me!”
Bobbs-Merrill (1957), Unknown Binding, 228 pages
tags: law, first edition, trials
Title: The burglar who liked to quote Kipling
Author: Block, Lawrence
Desc: 196 p. ; 22 cm
Subject Headings: Rhodenbarr, Bernie (Fictitious character) — Thieves — New York (State) — New York — Fiction
Material Type: Book
Language: eng
Pub. Info: New York : Random House, 1996, c1979
Catalog Date: 05-31-2005
ISBN: 0451180755
Price: $7.95
# of copies: 5
Availability: 2 copies available at Downtown 1st Fl.
Due Date: 05-12-07
… pushing the hapless Nuri al-Maliki aside and installing former CIA asset and neo-con favorite Iyad Allawi back in as a dictator. Nothing less than a return to strongman rule will restore order, Washington believes. – Pepe Escobar …
Gingrich Admits Affair During Impeachment – New York Times
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group. …
Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton’s infidelity.
”The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge,” the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton’s 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. ”I drew a line in my mind that said, ‘Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept … perjury in your highest officials.”
No sale.
Technorati Tags: Newt Gingrich, Dobson
By Pepe Escobar Asia Times “……The winner in the short term in Iraq will be the clever chess player who has managed to ingratiate himself as Bush’s man – apart from the momentarily shadowy Allawi: SCIRI’s Abdulaziz al-Hakim, …
The law–“carefully scrutinized,” wrote Pepe Escobar in Asia Times, “by Washington, Big Oil and the International Monetary Fund, but not by Iraqi politicians”–would establish 30-year production-sharing agreements with Western oil …
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