Now THERE’S a Human Being
Here’s a promise I’ll make you. If you watch this perhaps one-minute video, you have my guarantee that you’ll come away feeling better about America than you did going in.
We find ourselves in a desperate battle here in the U.S., and it’s one nobody ever imagined we’d ever have to fight. It’s a war being waged for honesty and decency, and we’re not giving up. I’m sure everyone will have his own personal reaction to this remarkable statement from the New York State attorney general. Mine was: “Now that’s a real human being. I’m with this guy. That’s what it means to be fully human.”
What makes this relevant to my blogs on sustainability is that kindness is really the only commodity that we, the people of Earth, bring to the table. Without it, we’d have a society that says, “Know what? I really don’t care about anyone but myself.” And just that quickly, sustainability becomes impossible, or, at best, a moot point. Once we’ve given up caring about one another, we’re left with nothing worth sustaining.
Craig,
I’m afraid New York Attorney-General Eric Schneiderman is no hero ! He is not part of the solution for America’s social ill’s but represent a major part of the problem.
Schneiderman is just another grandstanding, egotistical, hypocritical politicians in love with his own PR machine. Schneiderman leaps onto any bandwagon, not in pursuit of justice but simply to opportunistically rouse the mob to further outrage and indignation.
Perhaps you should read the contributions made by more thoughtful politicians like the UK politician, Matthew Ridley MP.
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-censorious-age/
I know you hate Schneiderman, or at least distrust his motives. That’s your right.
I suspect your animus comes from the fact that he’s trying to bring criminal charges against ExxonMobil.
Craig,
There’s a difference between prosecuting those who commit unlawful actions as a duty of office and abusing due process to persecute for self advancement.
Schneiderman prosecutes for self-interest and political ambition, as such he’s just a bully playing to a mob mentality.
I can understand your support since he launches prosecutions against those whom you don’t like or disagree, but it’s important to remember this is a coin with two sides. The style and methods of Schneiderman can just as easily be turned against you and the causes you uphold when another Attourney-General is elected.
Once the beast is released it’s very hard to replace it’s muzzle. It’s always so easy to lower standards, but very hard to restore conventions once broken.
Schneiderman is no Atticus Finch !
My main concern is the public money wasted by this braggart, in a state whose judicial system is already underfunded for the poor and needy.
As for ExxonMobile they hardly need me to defend their legal position, Schneiderman has wasted a great deal of taxpayer money in a grandstanding effort that’s completely back-fired once he discovered he was facing an opponent with the resources and determination to fight back.
Exxon’s subpoenas in the “The La Jolla playbook.” meetings are aimed at discovering civil and even criminal conspiracy behaviour on behalf of Schneiderman, and his fast dwindling allies. Some of those allies have now stepped away from supporting Schneiderman and are co-operating with the US Department of Justice investigation into the Schneiderman group’s actions.
The precedent can be found in the successful prosecution by Chevron Corp.against the lawyer Steven Donziger for orchestrating a $9.5 billion extortion scheme against Chevron. Steven Donziger was successfully prosecuted for civil racketeering and is currently being investigated for criminal racketeering.
Schneiderman’s ‘me too’ prosecution of the Weinstein Company LLC will probably result in the company’s demise. Tereby eliminating any meaningful sale, hurting not Harvey Weinstein, but all the creditors, associates, employees, shareholders etc.
That’s the problem with self-righteous grand-standers like Schneiderman, all they seek is publicity, contemptuous of the devastation caused to innocent victim’s of their inflated ego’s and political ambition.
No, I don’t like Schneiderman and his ilk.