It appears the "progressive" local blogosphere is determined to maintain radio silence on the N.C. State Bar's aggressive attempt to strip a blogging ex-judicial candidate of her law license.
The "issue" of such vital importance to the legal & judicial safety of the voting public is Rachel Hunter's use of the online moniker, "Madame Justice".
The hearing is scheduled for Friday.
I'm going to get out my crystal ball (it's blue - no really, I have one and it's blue) and predict it will go something like this:
This is a Star Chamber . . . a politically-motivated dog & pony show along the lines of the Nifong sacrifice . . . and the deal is already done. The Bar will go through all the motions of a fair hearing, but barring something unforeseen, Rachel will lose. I'd bet real money that the Bar will attempt to divert attention away from what they are doing to Rachel and why by attacking Rachel's husband, Connie (who is not on trial). Rachel & Connie's campaign rhetoric (i.e. the political correctness of political speech) will also figure prominently as a diversionary tactic.
As an aside, a great quote from the 1995 movie, The American President, immediately comes to mind (I guess nobody at the Bar saw it - but of course, it's a chick flick and the Bar is nothing if not a good-ole-boys club):
"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours."
I suspect the Raleigh press has already been alerted to the done deal and will be there to snap pictures when Rachel leaves the chamber. Brian Oten will primp and preen for the camera (hope he takes a better picture than this).
I did not used to be this cynical.
And North Carolina's MSM will no doubt dutifully be there to peddle the Bar's spin that a licensed professional's Free Speech . . . indeed a judicial candidate's free speech . . . is something to be squelched in North Carolina.
Bloggers like Cone and Hoggard and Roch and such will likely gleefully pile on . . . thinking they are dancing on Rachel's political grave. She's "batshit crazy" after all.
Here's my final prediction. Rachel (and Connie) will not go down without a fight. Expect a quick move to Federal Court . . . first to get a stay . . . and then to file a big PHAT lawsuit on First Amendment grounds.
But of course, the N.C. State Bar does not care about that. When they lose that lawsuit (and they will), it's just OPM (other people's money).
Yours and mine.
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I have followed Rachel's ordeal, and make no mistake, that's what it is -an ordeal of pure-T-harrassment.
I suspect your assessment that she will be found guilty of exercising her free speech will happen; hence, give cause and justification for the NC Bar to hammer Rachel with some sort of BS discplinary action. http://theexegetist.com
Jack, my disdain for the N.C. State Bar is well known.
Nifong was just the tip of "crooks and liars" iceberg (and his sacrifice to the accountability gods was just a sad/sorry show).
In the Bar's book it's okay for attorneys to lie to their clients . . .
. . . and it's okay for lawyers whose job it is to know better to file false answers on behalf of their clients . . .
. . . and it's okay for those same lawyers to perpetuate a fraud upon the Court by working deals on the lies they filed . . .
. . . and it's okay for them (as officers of the Court) not to take/recommend any corrective action once the fraud is discovered . . .
. . . and it's okay for district attorneys to bully witnesses and hold grudges and treat the victims of white-collar crime like dirt . . . and generally practice what the state law calls "habitual intemperance" without so much as a slap on the hand.
The Bar's motto seems to be "ethics smethics".
I hope Rachel takes a blow-torch to the iceberg and they all sink to the bottom of the ocean.
It would be a good start;)
It may take some time and a fight, but my crystal ball is predicting that she will;)
Well, my affidavit and those of several others from the old AncienrSites.com days are going to be entered into evidence on Friday, putting paid to the lies that "Madam Justice" is some new, nefarious plot.
Of course, there is a good chance this evidence will be dismissed out of hand. This will be because honor, decency and standing up for one's friends when they are in the right is totally alien to this bunch.
Those things are alien to a lot of people - and not just in the practice of law.
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