Fellow Catallaxy Files exile Steve from Brisbane has had his Opinion Dominion blog linked by
Patty Villanova said...Steyn thus joins such noted legal minds as Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan, DC sniper John Allen Muhammad, 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui, cult leader Charles Manson, serial killer Ted Bundy and Jack "Dr Death" Kevorkian in representing himself in American courts. Things didn't turn out so good for those guys. Like Moussaoui, Steyn doesn't care about procedures and process and just wants his day in court, so he's given up on preventing the case going to trial.
If you will read the motion that Mark Steyn recently submitted to the court on his own behalf, you will readily see the reason he dumped his lawyers- he is by far a more brilliant writer than anyone on his team. His understanding of the legal principles and his ability to convey the essence of the case is worthy of any legal scholar. He doesn't need the attorneys, he's doing a better job on his own.
Steyn has a history of hating on lawyers, having once put the sword to the legal team behind a lost case of his friend Conrad Black. Like local clone Andrew Bolt in the infamous s18C case on articles published in News Corporation papers about so-called white-skinned Aboriginals, Steyn's current case has been complicated by the efforts of his employer National Review, which Steyn accuses of wasting half a million dollars of fiat currency already for no result. Unlike Bolt, if Steyn loses this case then he's going to be up a for a motzah. One wonders if his decision to ditch the silks is money related, in part. All Bolt had to put up with was a public humiliation; Mann could put Steyn out of business.
From one ranga to another: best of luck Mark, you're going to need it.
Michael Mann is a serial liar. Steyn will have a field day with discovery.
ReplyDeleteHear, hear.
DeleteInteresting that the author draws comparison with some truly despicable characters. Use of such loaded examples only implies a lack of substance on the author's part.
ReplyDeleteWell noticed and well said. The author is so self-righteous he probably does not even realise that he is just throwing around smears...
DeleteMuch as you lot might wish it to be otherwise, it's Steyn (potentially) on trial here, not Mann. Tu quoque fallacies don't actually work as well in court rooms as they do on the Internet.
ReplyDeleteSteyn is not a "climate denier", he just doesn't put up with moonbattery of the left. The hysterical climate change hucksters are pushing a quackery worthy of of witchcraft in the middle ages. To think human activity could affect the Earth's climate as a whole is hubris on a grand scale. How do you explain the periodic warming and cooling of the Earth before humans were here?
ReplyDeleteIn an ironic turn of events, Al Gore's limousine was stuck in a Chicago snowdrift for 30 minutes last week en-route to a climate fundraiser. I think the global warming crowd is more afraid of losing all that money than they are of the global warming atrocities they tell us about. http://www.thedailyrash.com/al-gore-trapped-in-chicago-blizzard
ReplyDeleteYou do realize you're citing a news *satire* site, right? Go back there and click the 'About" tab.
DeleteYou're not helping when you do stupid stuff like that.
Well John Kerry was stuck in Palestine late last year in a snow drift and needed Israeli bull dosers to come in and rescue him. Kerry is also a big climate alarmist. You can Google the story.
DeleteIs that better?
um-- I think the mother of all examples to this effect would have to be the "climate scientists" who went down to Antarctica on a pleasure cruise to look at melting ice caps and had to be rescued from said ice in a spectacular fashion. No satire there except self-satire.
DeleteI note you are a tad desperate what with your silly examples of self represented defendants. In the US, in criminal cases, all defendants can be represented by Public Defenders, courtesy of the tax payer.
ReplyDeleteThe case at hand is a civil case. Do you know the difference?
PS: How's all that Polar ice doing this year? Have you heard of any drowned Polar Bears?
Wait - There's polar ice?? Fat Albert Gore said in '09 it would all be gone within 5 years. That's....uhh......now.
DeleteNon-American intellectuals, even from elsewhere in the English-speaking world, have absolutely no clue at all about how the First Amendment works.
ReplyDeleteWhat does "up a for a motzah" mean?
ReplyDeleteIt means Steyn will have to pay out a lot of money if he loses the case.
Deleteobviously no-one here understands there have been a number of studies that have backed up Mann's original research!
ReplyDeleteIf only Steyn could count and read
Never heard motzah used to mean money before. Maybe someone doesn't know that while Steyn is of Jewish ancestry, he himself is not Jewish.
ReplyDeleteOh, 97% of the scientists living on grant money in order to prove climate change is caused by capitalism believe climate change is caused by capitalism
I added a h at the end, usually it's just motza. It's not a Jewish reference AFAIK, just Australian slang.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=motza
Montgomery, a typical liberal pseudo-journalist, lamely attempts humor or worse by comparing Steyn to Bundy, Kavorkian, etc., (an attempt to return Steyn's oratory on the Mann-Sandusky comparison). Yet, Montgomery is not intelligent enough to realize that Global Warming data WAS being knowingly falsified by Mann and IPCC, and two, that Steyn's handle on the law and mental competence far exceeds his own, Bundy's, Kavorkian, etc.
ReplyDeleteSteyn has never denied the climate and should therefore sue you for defamation!
ReplyDelete[Look up 'irony' and and 'self-awareness', not found in the lexicon of leftism]
Now, what's all this about "denying the climate?" I never heard such foolishness. Of course there's a climate. Of course there's...what? Oh they meant 'climate CHANGE denier'? well..... never mind. --Emily Litella
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