Thursday, May 15, 2008

Another radical lawyer-just what RI needs as if we didn't have enough crap going on here-the Metcalf award might as well go to the Enquirer if they consider Jerzyk a journalist-it's only my opinion so it doesn't mean anything much,but the unmitigated garbage spewed out at RI's Future is nothing but a collection of angry screeds and name calling with very little or no factual basis-the main vocabulary words over there are:racist,hater,fascist,reactionary,ad nauseam aimed at anyone who dares to question the great poobah himself or his acolytes crowley and segal.Jerzyk couldn't win an honest debate with anyone having real knowledge of a subject,so avoids serious challenges and only responds to invective.

Joe -

You're funny!

You write that I "couldn't win an honest debate with anyone having real knowledge of a subject,so avoids serious challenges and only responds to invective."

Since you won't come on my blog and debate me on ANY issue, doesn't your criticism more aptly apply to you?

matt-In all seriousness I left an invitation on Anchor Rising for a no BS debate on particular issues to both you and crowley after you guys had been on those threads and got no answer-I can't post on your blog-every time I tried it was blocked so I assumed you didn't welcome any input from this quarter.I am sure you are no slouch when it comes to intellect,and i've said so,but you are oftentimes just wrong on the facts-I am sure you learned the importance of precision of language in law school -when it comes to the immigration issue and racism you throw out statements that are not provable-I never attended law school,although I had a pretty good amount of legal training in immigration/criminal law-i did however,have a great deal of experience in testifying and being cross examined by very good attorneys and was never once accused of fabrication,nor fell into any of the courtroom traps laid by competent attorneys.Why?Because I don't have a big head and I've learned from experience-I was a NY State court officer for 4 1/2 years prior to joining the feds.It was a good job while I was in night school getting my criminal justice degree. It taught me a lot about the way law plays out in the courts.I have a son and daughter,one your age and the other older than you.I might just have seen and retained a few things you didn't during periods you like to write about ,but which I lived through.I was a union member for 26 years.Surprised?You once lectured me about actually having a life on Anchor Rising-and when I answered-total silence from you.
Maybe being in the military at a young age and going to war gave me a little humility and made me realize that the more I learned the more it became apparent how little I would ever know.
Any criticism I've made of you has been based on your writing-I saw you on Laborvision once and I don't recall what you said in particular,so I hardly think I've made it personal because I don't know you at all.
One thing I won't do is wing it and try to speak to an issue where I am ignorant of the facts-even regarding immigration.
I have read a lot of what you write, including an interview you gave on the living wage project at Brown.so I believe I am on solid ground when I discuss what I think your agenda is.
Joe
PS:My worst enemies would concede that I am consistent and willing to admit when I am wrong,which has been far from rare.

Matt-I forgot to mention that I stopped in at the last"drinking liberally"-I don'tknow if you were there because it was before the Phoenix aarticle on bloggers and I really didn't think I'd have recognized you from the one time you were on with Scott Malloy-i had a very interesting talk with a lawyer named Chris Blazejewski-we weren't on the same page at all,but I thought it was a good exchange all the same- I didn't feel that I was speaking to someone with pre-conceived notions closed to new information-I also spoke with Donnis,but we had exchnged ideas previously.
Joe

Somehow I suspected you wouldn't answer.My point about not posting on RIF was proven today by your boy Alex,who told somebody that posted an entry critical of Obama that your left wing blog didn't appreciate his trolling.That pretty much defines you and most of your crew with a few exceptions.
Many of your posts are characterized by a frantic,overheated torrent of rhetoric directed at the issue of the moment whether you have any real knowledge of the situation or not.I hope you don't intend to take this attitude into the legal profession,but I suspect you're clever enough not to.Unlike the young attorney who asked me a question on cross in US District Court that she didn't know the answer to.It cost her client an additional five years in the slam.The point is I can not post on RIF and you refuse to debate on another forum such as AR(okay ,you don't like them)or here at N4N,which is hardly unfriendly territory for you.Ian isn't exactly on my side of most issues.