Comments on: Walking in the Other Person's Steel Toed Boots http://www.slaw.ca/2008/12/14/walking-in-the-other-persons-steel-toed-boots/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: movie buff http://www.slaw.ca/2008/12/14/walking-in-the-other-persons-steel-toed-boots/comment-page-1/#comment-701733 movie buff Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:13:16 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=5158#comment-701733 ... The neo-Nazi overcoming his guilt and prejudice towards the accented immigrant, the lawyer overcoming his anger towards the criminal, and even the victim who forgives his killer before he dies. But it’s the transformational ability of advocacy that really makes a difference in the story. The young man finally comes to the realization that the Jewish lawyer who so selflessly helps him at the expense of risking his career, family and personal life could hardly be a devil. ... Great. I don't need to see the movie now. Thanks! …
The neo-Nazi overcoming his guilt and prejudice towards the accented immigrant, the lawyer overcoming his anger towards the criminal, and even the victim who forgives his killer before he dies.

But it’s the transformational ability of advocacy that really makes a difference in the story. The young man finally comes to the realization that the Jewish lawyer who so selflessly helps him at the expense of risking his career, family and personal life could hardly be a devil.
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Great. I don't need to see the movie now. Thanks!

]]> By: Omar Ha-Redeye http://www.slaw.ca/2008/12/14/walking-in-the-other-persons-steel-toed-boots/comment-page-1/#comment-701731 Omar Ha-Redeye Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:54:51 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=5158#comment-701731 <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/112770/" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> a relevant and related story from yesterday's news. <blockquote> The racist skinhead logged on with exciting news: He'd just enlisted in the United States Army. "Sieg Heil, I will do us proud," he wrote. It was a June 3 post to AryanWear Forum 14, a neo-Nazi online forum to which "Sobibor's SS," who identified himself as a skinhead living in Plantersville, Ala., had belonged since early 2004. (Sobibor was a Nazi death camp in Poland during World War II)... Two years ago, the Intelligence Report revealed that alarming numbers of neo-Nazi skinheads and other white supremacist extremists were taking advantage of lowered armed services recruiting standards and lax enforcement of anti-extremist military regulations by infiltrating the U.S. armed forces in order to receive combat training and gain access to weapons and explosives. </blockquote> Here's a relevant and related story from yesterday's news.

The racist skinhead logged on with exciting news: He'd just enlisted in the United States Army.

"Sieg Heil, I will do us proud," he wrote. It was a June 3 post to AryanWear Forum 14, a neo-Nazi online forum to which "Sobibor's SS," who identified himself as a skinhead living in Plantersville, Ala., had belonged since early 2004. (Sobibor was a Nazi death camp in Poland during World War II)…

Two years ago, the Intelligence Report revealed that alarming numbers of neo-Nazi skinheads and other white supremacist extremists were taking advantage of lowered armed services recruiting standards and lax enforcement of anti-extremist military regulations by infiltrating the U.S. armed forces in order to receive combat training and gain access to weapons and explosives.

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