News Flash For North Carolina's Progressive Advocates Of Free Speech: Oral Arguments On Rachel Hunter's Appeal To Be Heard on January 27th

One of the YaYas send me an e-mail this morning, saying, "LOL, you ARE this woman!":

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the ground each morning, the devil says, "OH CRAP!!! SHE'S UP!!!

Yep. Especially lately.

I think most folks know where I stand on the North Carolina State Bar's despicable treatment of former judicial candidate Rachel Hunter . . . in a series of shameful/blatantly un-Constitutional maneuvers (fed by totally bogus accusations made by anonymous complainants) that turned the disciplinary arm of the State Bar into a political weapon-of-asinine-retaliation.

Yet the Medical Board and the N.C. Attorney General can sleep when real damage is done.

Moreover, Joe Guarino posed a very good question yesterday: Where exactly does Governor Perdue stand on healthcare "reform" . . . especially when doctors in her state can be subjected to such brutal professional retaliation for doing right by a patient?

We're living in some really scary, Orwellian times, people. And we got there because no one (especially not the journalists) was paying attention. And/so it's NOT-even-hardly "all about" me. Not by a long-shot. It's about what could happen to YOU.

It's about what this country is turning into.

I don't care what her politics are (with which, for the record, I'm not always sympatico), WHAT THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR DID TO RACHEL HUNTER WAS JUST WRONG.

And IF YOU REALLY CARE about FREE SPEECH at all, it should MATTER to you that what the Bar did was WRONG!

Of course, Ed Cone & the ethical/progressive company he keeps in our noble and enlightened local blogosphere (who, for all of their recent whining and hand-wringing, have suffered no such insult) are all JUST FINE with Rachel's Constitutional rights being deliberately & methodically trampled by the state.

We got DEAD SILENCE from the Word-Uppers when this all went down.

For all of their progressive clap-trap about "diversity (see the players/comments in this thread)", and wanting candidates to be "transparent" and to open themselves up on blogs, it's JUST FINE with them that Rachel's law license was attacked . . . essentially for blogging . . . and that she lost her job (over a bogus reprimand).

You see, they HATE her (and her husband, Connie Mack Berry, Jr.). Rachel is "batshit crazy". She wasn't fit for office (nevermind what we've currently got in office). And she asked for it because she did not worship at all their "right" forward-thinking altars. Ergo, she deserves whatever the Bar (acting like the worst bunch of good-ole-boys from the deepest back-woods backwater) dished out.

That same kind of hatred is now the foundation of Cone & company's beyond-lame defense of "Fecund Stench" . . . for cyberstalking (a completely different animal than blogging).

With apologies to Jerry Bledsoe, it doesn't matter what a "black & white" law says. Just like perjury doesn't matter. After all, "People lie in Court every day".

Threats and libel are just hunky-dory with this bunch, if the target is Dr. Mary Johnson.

Because Mary doesn't worship at the "right" altars either . . . be they in Bill&Hill's village, the Edwardses' two Americas or the Obamanation.

"There something about her . . . "

Yeah. She has a brain, and she's lived one helluva life.

And after living it, Dr. Mary ("evil", "wack-job", "lunatic", "crazy", "booger-eating moron" that she is) dared tell these blue-tufted HYPOCRITES (that play-on-words is actually an insult to the imaginary bird) that they were/are dead wrong . . . about a lot of things . . . particularly when it comes to the deep chasm between their high-minded, politically-correct notions and the way the real world actually works.

Long-term observers of the North Carolina blogosphere (particularly the Greensboro blogosphere) will note that until very recently, most of these "progressive" types, deferring to the well-named and well-connected people who have run seeped-in-corruption North Carolina into the ground (some of whom are already in jail - and some of whom will hopefully be indicted soon), have been WAY LATE to any party that questioned the ethics of those charged with the public good . . . or how the public's money was spent . . . or how ordinary citizens were treated.

It wasn't all about them . . . their career . . . their safety . . . their rights or their happiness, so it did not matter. They could sit on the fence and smuggly critique the efforts of those fighting the real battles . . . without posing a single objective question to the promiment people/institutions accused of screwing up.

Ergo, it was okay for "the Stench" (who has about as much clue as to what "the real truth" is as your less-than-average deaf/dumb/blind Washington bureaucrat) to pepper Mary's personal Inbox with verbal bombs that threatened her safety (and actually that of others living in her house) and livelihood. Hurling the ad hominems attacking her sanity and character is just swell too.

Making her feel "vulnerable" is where it's at. So is "taking her down". But there's no reason for her to be "scared" of them, and she's the one who should be "ashamed".

What makes it even more reprehensible it that the master-of-the-keyboard (he makes his living at it and thus has a distinct advantage in any "blog-war") hurling this garbage didn't give a second thought to how distracting what he was doing might be to a doctor whose responsibilities included covering the 24/7 emergency call & medical care of someone else's infants and children while he was doing it. No sir. He's a community-minded peach and needs a defense fund because he's the REAL victim here.

And/so if anyone has yet to figure this out, let me make it clear: You wanna talk about "civility" in this blogosphere, we can talk. But forget about me posting any more slurs from gutless anons. You wanna talk about motives and character, bring it on . . . but be prepared for a pointed examination of your own.

Because if I wasn't already really-torqued-off about the despicable, mean-spirited, malice-soaked, ego-boosting, self-aggrandizing treatment dished out by some of Greensboro's "big-gun" bloggers BEFORE I became "child-of-a-borderline-Mother" Fecund Stench's latest online pin-cushion, I am now.

I mean, GOOD GOD, I came here for HELP!?!

Rachel Hunter's appeal is scheduled to be heard by the Court of Appeals on Wednesday, January 27th at 9:30 AM.

The Court granted oral arguments in her case . . . a relatively rare event (only occurring about 10% of the time). An opinion is issued 30-60 days later.

Apparently someone has figured out that not everyone is drinking the State Bar's Koolaid on this one. After all, Rachel did get almost 650,000 votes in her last election. And (as stupid as the Bar apparently thinks the voting public is), I think we can assume that the average North Carolinian can differentiate between an official title and a blog moniker.

People ARE watching.

I'd like to see the Appellate Court hand the Bar their hats . . . for insulting the intelligence of the citizens/voters of North Carolina by assaulting Rachel's First Amendment rights.

But I'm not holding my breath in a state where people can get caught lying in Court, walk away and not one officer of the Court raises an eyebrow.

The law in this state is messed up.

Actually, it's not the law itself, but the practice of it.

Ditto for journalism. Because Rachel's ordeal is a story that should be front-and-center in North Carolina's newspapers.

Just like mine.

Comments are closed. Consider this a news flash - composed on my lunch break (for anyone who wants to know how I do it and find the time to practice medicine).

1/16 Author's note: This post has been tweaked this morning.