I think Larry Flint is a degenerate asshole…

Please don’t take this as a dig against everybody in law enforcement, but if the degenerate assholes who currently hide behind a badge or a D.A.’s credential instead peddled porn, this would be a better country.

Haynes is obviously corrupt to the root. You cannot be a person of integrity and strong moral fiber and defend this man, and fall back on “hey dude, it’s just a job I’m paid to do”.

As much as I want to say, “Right!” I can’t. I can’t because I imagine there are many defendants where people often say the same things. That guy executed by the State of Texas for alleged torching his house and children? Not exactly a swell guy, but most likely innocent of the crimes he was executed for.

One of the problems with defending freedoms is that you often have to defend the freedoms of those who are less than our ideals as citizens. Why? Because it is this group of people that are most easily abused early on, then as the abuse spreads we wish that we’d stopped it sooner.

LOL.

Memo to Sheriff Hodge and his power tripping badged buffoons:

“You’re in a heap of trouble, son.

Prior to their trial, the MHD guys spent about a week in the area, meeting and chatting with residents. Apparently more than a few people have had encounters with Hodge’s nut jobs. This website was created to document and share them.

I think Larry Flint is a degenerate asshole, but I’m certainly glad his lawyer defended him. I don’t read Hustler, but I’m smart enough to know that his case protected my right to free speech.

You don’t have to like the person being defended to uphold the idea that in order for justice to exist, everyone has the right to a lawyer.

I hear that quite frequently here in Alabama. But, you know, sub AL for WV…

I think Haynes is probably corrupt to the root as well, however I completely disagree with this statement. Doesn’t the ACLU do this kind of stuff all the time? Can you not represent the KKK in a 1st ammendment case and not be sleazy? For that matter I thought a Lawyer was somewhat ethically obligated to keep clients that they take on.

Heck it wouldn’t completely surprise me if Danks is on the case specifically because he also found out through the Agitator and this is as close as he could legally come (without ethics violations) to saying he supports Radley’s work.

To make anything stick to the sheriff, they are going to have to sue in federal court, and that will be tough. Their “free” lawyers may decide to run out of free time then.

Until I see a conviction of the pigs for roughing up an innocent citizen, I stand unmoved from the premise that we’re cattle.

I think you probably don’t understand how the legal system works is supposed to work.

My “win the lottery” job (i.e. what would I do if I won the lottery) would be a public defender, or something bigger in scope. There are a ton of those guys I wouldn’t “defend”, but I would certainly legally defend them to the fullest.