This is the rest of the post from this morning that Blogger's computers marked as offensive and put behind a content warning, with links and without further editing. So far the computer hasn't marked it as offensive. I have no idea what supposedly violated the guidelines, maybe it was a computer glitch. Computers are absolutely stupid there is no such a thing as computer intelligence or even understanding, so maybe that's it.
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If you read me you will note that in the past couple of years my regard for the entire legal profession has fallen off a cliff and it hasn't hit bottom, yet. I don't think my thinking about the modeling-pagent-movie industries is unrelated. The famed "civil liberties" lawyer, Harvard Law Professor, lawyer who was among those who got Epstein's sweetheart deal with Acosta which allowed him to continue his crime spree for more than another decade AS LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICIALS AND PROSECUTORS AND "OFFICERS OF THE COURT" KNEW ALL ABOUT IT, Alan Dershowitz had his fame as a "civil liberties lawyer" dissected by one of his most exigent and accurate critics Norman Finkelstein. Note I'm transcribing from the video here, and I'm consolidating instead of giving a verbatim transcription of what was said, making insertions for clarity and adding commentary.
Professor Dershowitz, he had done many despicable things.
There was a long period of time up until maybe four years ago when professor Dershowitz was always described as professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University,
famed civil liberties lawyer, comma.
He wasn't a civil liberties lawyer. There's no truth to that. Alan Dershowitz, his career began in the 1970s, his public career as a public presence, not his professional career.
He was a Harvard professor and I assume he was competent in his, uh, field of expertise. But his professional career begins [when] he was a defender of pornography.
That was his big thing because back then pornography was considered a civil liberties issue because it was banned, right? There were widespread prohibitions.
- He was the lawyer for I am curious yellow which was the first pornography film imported to United States. It was a French French film I am curious yellow.
- Uh he was the lawyer for Harry Reemes when Linda Love Lace . . . Deep Throat Deep Throat when she accused him of uh Harry Reems of having brutalized her on uh in the filming of of Deep Throat. He was the lawyer for Deep Throat.
I'll break in here to clarify that Dershowitz was Harry Reems lawyer when Reems was appealing his conviction on charges of distributing pornography when he was only an actor in the thing. Rather low hanging fruit for a lawyer to make a nation wide reputation on, I'd have thought. Linda Lovelace did accuse the men making the movie, including her then husband, of brutalizing her. I didn't happen to see the movie - maybe the I Am Curious franchise had already convinced me I didn't want to waste money or time on it, by then - but I can well imagine a man famous for his large phallus would have brutalized women during his film career. Brutal use of women, other men and children are an intrinsic part of porn. But Dershowitz's advocacy doesn't seem to have been directly involved with any accusations she made against Reem.
That never that never did any harm to his reputation. Any harm.
If you were to Google now, you know, your listeners can do it on their own, your viewers can do it on their own. If you were to go now and look at the parade of academics who are celebrating Alan Dershowitz when he is retired or retires from Harvard Law School. It's everybody. A who's who of academia is there. And the Harvard uh law school dean Martha Minnow, she's singing the praises of Alan Dershowitz. She's a famous feminist scholar, a feminist legal scholar, knowing full well his record, singing his praises.
They didn't care about the fact that he got Jeffrey Epstein off.
It was even interesting. So Jeffrey Epstein got one year. You know, in the first trial he got one year. He was out in his own recgnissance all day. He only had to come back, you know, he had his office outside. He only had to come back at at night for his sentence.
And Dershowitz was asked about it and he says [when asked] Do you feel bad? In retrospect, when you know it came out that he had done this and done that and done that.
Dershowitz said, Feel bad? The only thing I feel bad about is that he got one year. I think he should have gotten scott-free. Now, he's saying this after after all the claims and allegations against Epstein. That didn't alienate anyone.
People like, you know, Jeffrey Toobin.
That's all he did. I mean, he's a snake. He is just such a snake.
You can listen to the entire interview and hear the partial list of eminent academics, including the former Harvard Law School Dean, "justice" Elana Kagan who come in for his criticism as enablers of Dershowitz. And, as he notes, AND WHICH IS OBVIOUS, there is a link between such "civil liberties lawyering" and the world of Epstein even if someone other than Dershowitz was the ambulance chaser all of those worlds have in common. If I wasn't bening more careful with words I'd say the Harvard Law crowd, the celebrity lawyers, the media promoters of all of this stuff, the lawyers, the worlds of crime and abuse they advocate for AND GET PAID HANDSOMELY TO LIE FOR ignored the stench of it. But such elite scum washes regularly and wears expensive, clean clothes, they don't ignore any of it, THEY KNOW FULL WELL THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE ENABLING AND IGNORING. They ignore it because, being part of the racket, they stink as much as the ones who get fingered. The rich are generally scum.
