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Midyear Meeting 2009

Times Have Changed, ABA President Tells House

Posted Feb 16, 2009 8:55 AM CST
By Edward A. Adams

Corrected: With ample understatement, ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., told the ABA House of Delegates this morning that “the world has changed since we last met” in August.

“We have a new President and a new Congress. We’ve had productive outreach to the Obama Administration about how we can work together on our common core values,” he said.

He also noted the economic crisis, noting that in August “the Dow that week closed at well over 11,000.” As Wells spoke, the Dow stood at 7,850.

Today, “many of America’s lawyers are being affected by the downturn. It’s during times like these that our members can take excellent advantage of the association’s resources” regarding both career assistance and developments concerning the substance of the law, he said.

The ABA has gathered many of its recession survival tips into a Lawyer Resource Center on its website.

Also see a report on our interview with Wells:

ABA Journal: "ABA Pushes for 1,000-Lawyer Legal Corps"

Corrected at 4 p.m., Feb. 18, to delete a sentence that read in part "One of the ABA’s leading goals in Washington is to restore the Association to the role of reviewing federal judicial nominees before their nominations are made public . . . " That is not a goal of the ABA.

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J.D.
Feb 16, 2009 12:41 PM CST

TRUE. Times have changed. There was a time when new immigrants wanted to be part of their newfound country. There was a time when assimilation was celebrated. But now we have jihadists in Australia CELEBRATING the deadly fires and refusing to assimilate. Leftists who oppose assimilation are partially to blame.

According to one jihadist immigrant, the fires are “an act of revenge for Australian’s participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Plus, muslim immigrants were the ones starting the fires. AND GUESS WHAT? Plans to set U.S. forests ablaze have been part of al Qaeda’s plan for years. All of this could be stopped with rational immigration policies, but open-border groups like the ABA are to blame.

Read all about it:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25056815-1243,00.html

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B. McLeod
Feb 16, 2009 3:14 PM CST

J.D., I am not finding any corroboration in the sources you have cited for this alleged Jihadist link to the fires in Victoria.  Also, I am not sure why you term the ABA an “open-border group.”  Do you have a source for that?

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J.D.
Feb 16, 2009 3:35 PM CST

A source? Only every immigration panel the ABA has ever hosted. And check out their “Commission on Immigration” in which they support non-enforcement of immigration laws, aka anarchy, aka amnesty.

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B. McLeod
Feb 16, 2009 6:18 PM CST

The ABA has endorsed anarchy?

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Sara
Feb 19, 2009 6:31 PM CST

http://sheikyermami.com/2009/02/18/australian-jihad-website-issues-islamic-fatwa-about-deliberately-lighting-bushfires/#comment-114718

Sheikh Haron has sent a letter 12th February to John Brumby the premier of Victoria. Sheikh Haron has revealed some intelligence about the Islamic operation for lighting bushfires which was a plan to make Australia’s 9/11. Sheikh Harun says that the Kilmore fire which started on the 7th February 2009 was successfully lit ….

Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi confessed that his Muslim fellow have done the Islamic operation of Victoria’s bushfire, then Sheikh Haron wrote:
“Australia’s 9/11 would be an act of revenge. Yes, it would be an act of revenge for Australian’s participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It would be an act of revenge for the Bali bomber’s execution which was the result of Australian pressure on Indonesian politicians. It would be an act of revenge for all kinds of oppression our Government has committed.

Dear Mr. Brumby if the victims of the Victorian bushfires were innocent, the civilians who were killed by the Australian soldiers in Afghanistan were innocent as well.
Australians are busy with sex, drugs, drinking and gambling, so as a result our corrupt politicians have the opportunity to oppress other nations.
Australian citizens will be killed as long as they don’t stop their authorities from killing the citizens of other countries.
Australians deserve to be burned in the fire of hell, the fire of Bush is nothing!”

http://www.sheikhharon.com/announcements.php

Some details of the Islamic operation on Saturday 7th February 2009:
http://www.sheikhharon.com/intelligence.html

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