LaLa Slams Dershowitz

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

And calls him out for his morally repugnant position on torture:

Your column, sir, entitled Torture, Accountability, and Name Calling assumes a great deal and says very little in the way of clarifying your comments about the use of torture.

You title your post "name calling" and you begin it with just that, by claiming that my November 11 post discussing your comments is an illustration of how "some blogs endanger rational discourse and substitute-name calling for serious debate about controversial issues." I did not realize I had endangered serious debate by discussing your moral ambiguity on the topic of torture.

You state, again, and I assume for the record (because why would you otherwise continue reminding us of how fixed your moral position is?) that you are "personally opposed to the use of torture." Yet the implied "but" that follows as you examine the mechanics of torture and how useful these brutal tactics have been in the past, brings into question your claimed fixed moral stance on the issue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/dear-mr-dershowitz_b_73147.html

[gratuitous]

1. I'd like to hope that Dershowitz got a good price for his soul

But I'd think such a teeny little shriveled thing wouldn't exactly command top dollar.

[Kurovski]

2. K&R. (nt)

[dailykoff]

3. Dirtbagwitz has met his match.

This is gonna be good!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Good. Doucheowitz got his ass kicked.

[spag68]

5. Torture advocates

should be asked to undergo these tactics themselves.

[Spazito]

6. Only one word comes to mind in reading this and that is BRAVO!

Bravo Larisa, excellent rebuttal to Dershowitz, absolutely excellent! I hope he does accept your challenge and face you, I doubt he will, he cannot face truth only platitudes.

Well done, Larisa!

[scarletwoman]

7. Brava for LaLa! Dershowitz is a cowering shit-weasel.

Oops. There goes that nasty name-calling again.

Suck on it, Alan. You have earned the mockery and derision of all decent-minded people who have no problem at all with unequivocally condemning the use of terror and torture by the State -- period.

For the sake of what faint hope there may yet be for creating a better world, these revenants and atavists ought to be shamed and shunned by polite society.

sw

[Pachamama]

8. Does Larisa have a law degree? Damn, Dershowitz's head is probably ready to explode...Her rebuttal

and response to his Wall Street Journal editorial is brilliant....

I read his piece and I read hers and I have to say, she is so correct, and that his moral ambiguity is ridiculous and he's just plain wrong.

[lala_rawraw]

13. no she does not, sadly

:)

[Pachamama]

14. Well, I think you would be an outstanding lawyer if you ever did get a law degree...

In the meantime, I think your an outstanding journalist and investigative reporter and I like your style.... :hi:

[lala_rawraw]

18. why thank you:)

and I don't think I would make a good attorney... :hi:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

16. I'm sure there are many lawyers on DU

Who would write you law school letters of recommendation. :D

[lala_rawraw]

19. hmmm...

but that would require me to stop writing to focus on my law studies... don't think i can do it, but appreciate the support :D

[Tom Joad]

9. Dershie supports torture and war crimes. as long as the victims

are Arab/Palestinian.

when you see dershie on the tube, you are looking at a real live nazi.

[bleever]

10. Mr. Dershowitz: by defending torture, you're defending torture of innocent people.

It's what the U.S. of A. has been doing, to anyone who "may" have info that "may" save American lives.

60% or more of Abu Ghraib detainees were innocent people, swept up in a Rumsfeldian "related or not" operation.

And hey, if it worked on resisters of the Nazis, we're practically obligated to do it.

For the good of people like us.

If that's who we really want to be now.

[xchrom]

11. recommend -- dershowitz is a fool -- and this column highlights that nicely.

[scarletwoman]

12. This needs a kick. (nt)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. K&R!! Lala stomps even further twisting by Dershowitz

He's got nothing but lies, and Larisa calls him on all of them.

Thank you for posting this CKB :pals:

Love that lala :loveya:

[lala_rawraw]

20. :D

Luv you too mister Salmon :toast:

[bleever]

17. .

:kick:

[rucky]

21. We could settle this once and for all...

by strapping Dershowitz onto a waterboard.

[DemReadingDU]

22. morning kick