Comments on: Former Politicos McGee And Craig Charged

By: Zippo

Zippo — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:13 +0000

@JJ, Your point is understood and highlights the basic problem at hand. Too many doctors, lawyers, agents, brokers, news outlets, and politicos, police, prosecutors, professors etc. (people in trusted professions) do not do what’s best for the client/public. That’s the headwind the nation is pushing against.

And I ask, do the professional membership organizations help protect the bad eggs rather than eject them? It would seem professionals don’t convict their own unless it is unavoidable (John Edwards, Secret Service animal house behavior, bad cop shoots, political corruption, radicals in teaching, etc.)

By: Zippo

Zippo — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:53:48 +0000

I bet the secret handshake will still get them out of the mess.

By: Mik

Mik — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:14:54 +0000

JJ – Well spoken/typed. How have the regulars not run you off this site?

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:09:44 +0000

Mik–that is a slippery slope. True lawyers are hired guns who are charged with getting the best deal posible for their client. While ethics and morals are not required so long as the rules are followed, we as a society expect some basic ethics in all profesionals. If all profesionals only lived by the rules or law of the land, and disregarded ethics and community morals where would we be? In this instance the client acts as the lawyers employer, consider the following:

Your doctor is employed by the hospital, not you, should the doctor set aside his ethics and make decisions which are best for his employer, and not the pateint?

Should your broker make investment decisions that are legal, but benefit his brokerage firm more than his client?

Should your insurance agent sell you a policy that generates a higher commision for himself when there is a product that meets your needs better or the same for a lower cost?

In short you are correct lawyers need not have ethics only follow the rules, however as a society we should demand a basic level of ethics from everyone. However what constitutes ethical behavior is too broad to codify, to some legal equals ethical, to others ethics rise much higher, possibly too high that their expectations of ethics is a mis-match from the general population.

By: Mik

Mik — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:51:31 +0000

You did not say “prosecutor.” You did not say “judge.” You can’t speak in generalities and then change to specifics when someone questions you.

Also, the sky is falling…

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:15:30 +0000

These two idiots don’t know right from left let alone right from WRONG! They owe the entire population of Idaho a personal apology for embarrassment on a national scale! Me? I’ll settle for both of them taking Rex Rammel’s example and move out of state.

By: Ronin

Ronin — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:59:27 +0000

so you think that a prosecuting attorney who is in control of what a person can be charged with or not charged with, does not need to be moral or have some degree of integrity? What about every single judge? Are they not just glorified lawyers who have been manipulating the system long enough to be placed in a position to destroy countless American live, are they not to be in good moral standing to be able to fully and completely look upon every single case without a biased personal opinion? In Idaho, there is no such thing as a good cop, an honest politician, or an honorable judge, and everyone who appeases these traitors to democracy and freedom is just as guilty of treason as they are.

By: Mik

Mik — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:58:53 +0000

Why do lawyers need moral standing? Lawyers are just hired guns working within a system of rules, not morals.

By: Ronin

Ronin — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:40:06 +0000

Why the name deletion? That lawyer is a terrible one, and the community should be warned to his lack of moral standing

By: Ronin

Ronin — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:18:58 +0000

As long as the don’t hire (name deleted) to represent them in court I think they will be just fine, being sentenced to six months means that in three months they can get out, and three months in jail is a vacation, a crappy vacation but still much better than what most citizens are forced to suffer for crimes that are much less. These two will be an example to the state that those who make the laws are not above the law,
Speaking of which what of John Bujak and the DUI judge in Twin?