John Edwards - The Populist Hedge Fund Trial Lawyer

John Edwards has an estimated $100 million dollar bank account and a 30,000 a square foot home.

He made this fortune by suing doctors and hospitals and then re-investing the money in Wall Street Hedge Funds.

One of these funds was recently found to be eviciting destitute Hurricane Katrina victims from their homes.

But this comes as no suprise since hypocricy is Edward's most consistent trait.

Now that he's finished chasing ambulances, John Edwards can be found on the campaign trail where he regurgitates Anti-Capitalist rhetoric to his delluded supporters.

He is also fond of criticizing the Iraq War and the Patriot Act.

Coincidentally he authorized the former and voted for the latter.

But to realize what a true scumbag John Edwards is you have to go back to his illustrious career as a Trial Lawyer.

This excerpt is from Wkipedia

In 1985, Edwards represented a five-year-old child born with cerebral palsy whose doctor did not choose to perform an immediate Caesarean delivery when a fetal monitor showed she was in distress. Edwards won a $6.5 million verdict for his client, but five weeks later, the presiding judge sustained the verdict but overturned the award on grounds that it was "excessive" and that it appeared "to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice," adding that in his opinion "the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict." He offered the plaintiffs half of the jury's award, but the child's family appealed the case and settled for $4.25 million.[11] Winning this case established the North Carolina precedent of physician and hospital liability for failing to determine if the patient understood risks of a particular procedure.[12]

So John Edwards made millions of dollars by suing a doctor who made an honest mistake on a technicality.

Impartial observers including the judge noted that "The jury seemed to be swayed by Edwards passionate oratory rather than the actual fact's of the case".

Theres also something twisted and ironic about a sheister lawyer engaged in medical malpractice suits over child birth while advocating pro-choice policy.

He most likely ruined the doctors career and bankrupted the hospital. But it's OK, when your a trial lawyer theres always more people to sue and ruin!

Like later as a personal injury lawyer suing corporations for product liability. Garnering millions even in cases when products were clearly labeled and used irresponsibly.

Of course you could expect the anti-business rhetoric from Edwards. After all he never made money by creating products and services like a real businessman.

Every dime he made was taken from someone else's hard work and tears.

And every political gain was based on distortion and lies.

John Edwards a real American Democrat Dirtbag.

Hate Crimes and Liberalism

On January 6th 2007 a Tennessee couple went out for dinner and a movie at a friend's house.

They would never make it.

Instead they were assaulted, sodomized, tortured and mutiliated for 4 days before being killed and then burned.

The assailants were a gang of four African American men and one woman.

Given the horrific nature of this crime you would think it would garner national media attention.

Instead, the media focused on stories like the Duke Lacrosse case and later the so called "Jena 6" in Louisiana.
But you see there is a catch.

The victims, Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian where white, and as every good liberal knows only "minorities" can be the victims of hate crimes.

Where I wondered, were the crusading activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to help and console the victims families?

Where was the FBI Hate Crimes Unit to collect evidence?

The ACLU was coincidentally too busy that week to bother.

After all, arguing for the legalization of Child Pornogrophy, and suing public universites to install Muslim foot baths while conversely attacking Chrisitan worship in public is difficult work. They can't be expected to intervene in something so trivial as racially motivated gang violence.

They can still help though, perhaps they can organize a fundraiser to pay for the murderers defense team!

The whole thing made me wonder, what is a hate crime?

The answer is a series of laws designed to give minorities special rights and protection under our Federal judicial system.

But just like affirmative action these laws actually encourage more racism by endorsing the idea that people should be treated differently based on race.

The result being that when a white couple is viciously attacked, tortured and murdered by a black gang it is not considered a hate crime.

But imagine the uproar if the same thing had been done by a white gang to a black woman, hispanic or any other racial minority.

The truth is that everyone should be treated and punished equally based on the severity of their crime.

Did Timothy McVeigh or the unabomber "hate" the goverment when they bombed and killed people?

Did the VT Tech killer "hate" the students on the campus that he murdered?

Why would we not use hate crime legislation in these cases as well?

RICO statutes can and have been used to prosecute racist criminal organizations.

Premediated crimes should all be prosecuted under the same criteria.

And if not, then these laws should be extended to everyone.

Diary of a Liberal - All Corporations are evil except Starbucks and Apple

Corporations are all wicked and irresponsible.

You know, even the notion of private property is immoral and despicable.

Its clear that we need an authoritarian goverment which will reign in these ruthless plutocrats.

We should nationalize all private business and redistribute their ill begotten wealth to the destitute.

I mean it's not like these companies became successfull by providing goods and services efficiantly to their fellow citizens for a reasonable price.

Everybody knows that real wealth is created through intrusive taxes and goverment welfare programs.

Well, I guess I can't say that all corporations are evil.

Also, I wouldn't want the goverment infringing on my private property.

It's only OK for the goverment to steal property from the wealthy.

This is fair because they "stole" it from the poor. Nobody ever becomes successfull through hard work or innovation.

Apple and Starbucks however are just fantastic!

I love their $6 Cappucinos and those little danishes by the counter.

Apple is truely a fine example of contemporary corporate egalitarianism.

I mean it's almost like they give away overpriced computers and gadgets for free., direct from the factory in Indonesia.

And when Steve Jobs is involved in an insider trading deal for millions of dollars by defrauding investors we can just ignore it.

It's only wrong when companies like Enron are involved in corruption.

They sell energy to power our Macs which is just downright evil, think of Global Warming.

BREAK...

BACK TO REALITY

The Apple Starbucks phenomenon is another syphtom of liberal hypocricy.

I like to point out the left winger selling a Che Guevera T-shirt which is in of itself a process of Capitalism.

Or Rage Against the Mansion, a band whose very success condradicts the notion of class disenfranchisement and non-existent social mobility.

To the liberal I say if you hate private property than why don't you give me yours.

And if you hate corporations so much than stop participating in Capitalism.