Jack Thompson Seeks Presidency Of Florida Bar
Posted on Sunday, 6 of July , 2008 at 9:41 pm
CORAL GABLES, FLA—Just as Ronald Reagan ran for and became president of the Screen Actors Guild to wrest control of SAG from the extreme leftists and Communists who sought to control and subvert it, Jack Thompson has announced his candidacy to lead The Florida Bar as its elected president.
The Bar’s officers, like SAG before it, have become little more than an ideological cabal that seeks to turn the Bar even more than it already is into the legal aid arm of the liberal lunatic fringe, Thompson says.
Thompson must submit by Dec. 15 signatures of only one percent of the 84,000 members of The Florida Bar to be on the ballot for president-elect of The Bar. If elected to that post by Florida lawyers, Thompson would become president in June 2010, after serving as president-elect from June 2009. Between now and Dec. 15, Thompson will secure those 840 signatures, come Hell or high water, he says.
Thompson has been the victim, for more than 20 years, of The Florida Bar’s “outlandish” efforts to use “discipline” to try to destroy his career, he says, just as it has used “discipline” to destroy the careers of other lawyers in Florida. Thompson says that “so illegal have been The Bar’s actions in this regard that The Bar’s insurance carrier” has paid Thompson damages for this illegal activity.
Thompson, during the latest wave of harassment by The Bar, says he has been contacted by many other lawyers who have been similarly persecuted and who have convinced Thompson that now is the time to return The Bar to what it is supposed to be: Protector of the public from unethical lawyers, not protector of The Bar from the public.
Thompson says that recent Bar president, Hank Coxe of Jacksonville, was allegedly instructed to do something about the misuse of Bar “discipline” to achieve improper ends. Coxe utterly ignored this directive, Thompson says. Now even the Florida Supreme Court seems to have had enough of The Florida Bar, as it has ordered The Bar to explain why it is infringing upon the First Amendment rights of lawyers like Thompson, Thompson says. A recent Bar poll of its members indicates that they, too, have had enough of what Thompson calls The Florida Bar’s ideological lunacy. By July 14, The Bar must explain its odd actions in this regard, he says.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas predicted in 1969 in Lathrop v. Donohue that eventually compulsory state bars like Florida’s would become ideology-driven “goose-stepping brigades.” That was Douglas’ phrase, not Thompson’s. The US Supreme Court in 1991 unanimously agreed with Douglas in its landmark Keller v. State Bar of California decision. The American Bar Association in 1992 then told The Florida and other state bars, that their abuses of the disciplinary processes do not serve the public and must be radically revised. The Florida Bar has chosen to thumb its nose at the U.S. Supreme Court, and Thompson says he has had enough.
Thompson, in announcing his candidacy, says he now heeds the dual call to action of the ABA and the U.S. Supreme Court. 7-6-08
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