Hey Guys,
Well so much for bodybuilding, MMA, cars, diet, nutrition, bodybuilder gossip and even hot chicks.
Some of these child abuse questions seem to be quite similar so let me bring this short but volatile chapter to a final conclusion on my part:
1) I am not my job.
2) I am proud of what I have achieved, from nothing, with no help from the politicos or anyone else but a few close friends and parents.
3) I am much more proud of several other things I have achieved in life than anything I've ever done as an attorney.
4) I was a part time Municipal Prosecutor in 4 towns for 2 years and hated it!!! I didn't want to "judge" anyone. Defendant walks into my office
and has a ticket for No Insurance which is a $1,000 fine and mandatory 1 year loss of license. The following conversation takes place with he and I:
Me: "Did you have insurance?"
Him: "No"
Me: "Why not?"
Him: "I can't afford it" (NJ is the HIGHEST paying state in the country for car insurance)
Me: "What do you do for work?"
Him: "I work in a factory"
Me: "Do you have a family?"
Him: "Yes, I am married and have 2 kids."
Me: "So if you have no license, you can't work. I am going to downgrade (change) your ticket to Failure to Produce the Insurance Card. No suspension and a $32.00 fine.
5) Given that my grandfather was shot through the head with a rifle by a 19 year old SS Officer (Josef Wurst- later hanged at trial) and survived
and my Dad went through the camps as well and saw Hitler live 2 times, I could not defend someone at Nuremburg.
Now go ahead and scream "hypocrite." I have told you over and over again that my personal ethics don't have to make sense to anyone else.
My moral barometer does not have to be identical to yours. I can't represent someone charged with abusing an animal and I can't tell you why that
is different to me than an alleged child abuser. I do NOT condone either. If I don't have the nerve to do something, I don't do it. It does NOT have to
make sense to anyone else. Do your ethics, justifications and peccadillos make perfect sense to me, to Las Vegas, to Pellius? Probably not but it doesn't
matter. They don't have to. I am not operating outside the law and the argument that I am not hurting anyone can be debated ONLY if you first find
the judicial system at fault. I am a terribly flawed human being (don't tell my girlfriend) but my job is the same job as hundreds of thousands of others so
perhaps there has been a societal acceptance way before I went to law school that what I do for a JOB has some purpose or place despite it being terribly
unpopular.
6) I fully understand how people despise child abusers. I even gave you the name of a client whose case was so repulsive that I still have nightmares when
I think about the photos in the Discovery. I actually removed myself from the case. Yet no one ever asked me about that case. Again, strange.
Perhaps the best way to help diminish (not able to abolish) child abuse is to have the public view trials of the accused and watch as most are convicted and those who
aren't are forever embarrassed anyway. Perhaps if more abusers saw the trial and that evidence is presented in an overwhelming and expertise manner, they might think twice before acting.
7) I ask you to find ONE example of me criticizing anyone else's job or profession. I even supported Vince G when he was attacked for some type of job he held. The
job does not necessarily make the man, neither does the suit or flannel shirt or car he drives. I, along with almost all of you, am much more than simply my job. We
are all an amalgam of different emotions, frustrations, desires, talents, attributes, interest, etc. I am sure my postman has much more going on in his life than just his job.
I think I will wait for a new topic here to emerge as I've pretty much exhausted all my answers as to why I represent the reprehensible.
Nevertheless, I remain on GetBig knowing the consequences because in the end, you guys are very smart, fun and thought provoking.
Harley