{"id":404,"date":"2007-05-19T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T17:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/05\/19\/do-demonstrations-work\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T19:47:17","slug":"do-demonstrations-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/05\/19\/do-demonstrations-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do demonstrations work?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This demonstration…<\/div>\n
\"Thomas<\/div>\n
Current law student Thomas Becker confronts the class of 1982<\/div>\n
including torture alum, Alberto Gonzales.<\/div>\n
…prompted members of the class of 1982 to publish this open letter in the Washington Post<\/a> – an observable response. I don’t know the names or the faces, so I don’t know which of the signatories are in the picture. I would imagine the law students could work that out if need be. The letter does not call for Torture Alum to resign:<\/div>\n
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“We call on you and the President to relent from this reckless path, and begin to restore respect for the rule of law we all learned to love many years ago.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t see the Decider Commander Guy or Torture Alum relenting on much of anything. So the question comes, is this ad a real response or is it a bunch of Harvard trained lawyers who had only one course in ethics as 3L’s dealing out the minimum possible dose of ersatz Veritas? Somebody should ask them.<\/p>\n

\"McKey<\/p>\n

McKey and James Berkman1<\/sup> [left] with Catherine Pollack and Kathleen Healy
\nat James’ installation as Head of School, Boston University Academy<\/a>.<\/div>\n
\"Mckey<\/div>\n

1<\/sup>McKey and James are the children of Allen Berkman. I’m unclear on their relationship, if any,a<\/sup>, with Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman who gave Harvard $5.4 Million to “grow” and rename the Law School’s Institute for Internet and Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

a<\/sup>If you are a Christian Fundamentalist, there is guaranteed to be a relationship at the root at least. I, however, think evolution to be a more robust description, but I do not know how to compute the root set of the human genome. I would guess it unlikely that McKey and James are descended from chlorophyl based life, with Jack and Lillian descended from hydrogen sulfide metabolizing organisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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