JUDGE A. HOWARD MATZ: She just told us all that she was the one
in charge after getting that delegation. Now, I'm not going to permit more inquiry into that.
That's out of the question.
Nobody has the right to establish
something that's been established and to go over it time and
time again. No one has the right, not any lawyer, not any
client, to impeach somebody about something that hasn't been inconsistent.
KILLERCOP: Okay.
JUDGE A. HOWARD MATZ: That's been established.
KILLERCOP: I would like the record to reflect that I
don't like being yelled at by Your Honor.
KILLERCOP: I'm trying to be respectful, as you
have asked me. I'm also trying to show Your Honor that this
witness became, I believe, very good friends with the agent --
Cugno -- on a personal level.
A definitional retreat takes place when someone changes the
meaning of the words in order to deal with an objection raised
against the original wording.
Judge
A. Howard Matz: "it would be a huge sea change in the administration of justice to have the personal backgrounds of whoever happens to be U.S. Attorney at a given time become a basis to issue subpoenas. Selective prosecution, which you hinted at, has already been ruled upon. So I don’t need further argument on Ms. Yang."
Antiquitam, argumentant ad
Students of political philosophy recognize in the argumentum ad
antiquitam the central core of the arguments of Edmund Burke.
Put at its simplest, it is the fallacy of supposing that something is
good or right simply because it is old.
This is the way it's always been done, and this is the way we'll continue
to do it.
(It brought poverty and misery before, and it will do so again...)
Henry Louis Gates' Contempt Of Cop Emptywheel - At tonight's nationally televised press conference, a reporter asked President Obama a question about the July 16 arrest of famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Obama set off...
Contempt of Cop' by William Norman Grigg - The police are to the government as the edge is to the knife, insists sociologist David Bayley, who apparently couldn't explain why the typical...
Welcome to America Now step inside the jail cell - The audio exchange in this video was apparently recorded at the U.S. Canada border after a Canadian displayed contempt-of-cop towards the American law enforcement officer asking questions.
Contemptible police tactics - Cops raid the home of a licensed medical marijuana provider in Washington, handcuff the fourteen year old son and put a gun to his head, and search the nineteen year old daughter and take the contents of her mickey-mouse wallet.
How To Survive Traffic Stops in America, Submit, Instantly! - What the cops want is immediate obedience and submission. Many cops are ex-military and view the civilian motorists of America about like they viewed the hapless peasants of Iraq and Afghanistan, that is, with contempt, not as fellow citizens deserving of civility and respect. It is a possibly lethal mistake to do anything other than submit, instantly and obey! Or be ready to shoot first. But aim high.