Former Navy SEAL Describes Being ‘Purged’ From Woke Law Firm
“I noticed a change in politicization at the firm between 2019-2020.”
William Brown entered the field of law after leaving the military. What he describes here is typical and horrible.
He writes at The Federalist:
How I Became A Casualty Of The Ongoing Ideological Purge In American Jurisprudence
I am a Navy SEAL and Iraq war veteran who transitioned back into civilian life as a lawyer. Recent experience has taught me that people with my beliefs and values are viewed as parochial, at best, and in any case are not welcomed by many of those who are considered “leaders” in the legal profession.
One of the things I realized soon after I started practicing law is that there are very few practicing attorneys who are veterans, and even fewer who serve in positions of influence within our largest law firms. This is part of the problem. After my honorable discharge from the Navy, I earned my undergraduate and law degrees from Rutgers University in New Jersey before being hired as an associate at McCarter & English LLP (M&E), a firm of more than 400 lawyers and the oldest law firm in New Jersey.
I noticed a change in politicization at the firm between 2019-2020. I was alarmed to see images on M&E’s website that appeared to support Black Lives Matter (BLM) — the controversial organization involved in “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests that resulted in multiple deaths and over $2 billion in damages. The firm also appeared to have an anti-Trump political lean.
After receiving multiple emails from M&E’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee commending numerous events, I sent a reply email asking them why they failed to send out an email on Sept. 11 that year honoring and remembering the fallen. In return, I received an email from DEI Committee member and renowned LGBT advocate Natalie Watson (now a NJ Superior Court judge) chastising me.
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I’d encourage anyone who ever wore the uniform, to consider careers in the Energy Biz. More specifically in Oil & Gas.
Some of the best people I’ve ever worked with, outside of my fellow service members. That includes the corporate attorneys in the Biz. Many of us served before finding a gainful civilian career in O&G.
I sympathize with your viewpoint, but if I ihad recently left an unpopular and oppressed career, my last inclination would be to embark on another one. What I’d look for is a career where I could be the one oppressing the Marxist enemies of freedom. Not sure exactly what kind of opportunities are out there for things like that, but James O’Keefe, the people at FIRE, the legal team at Institute For Justice, are the sort of places I might start looking.
I read the full article by Bill Brown on his experience, and I found it very disturbing. A member of his original firm’s DEI committee, who “chasticized” him in writing for asking about 9/11 is now a Superior Court Judge in New Jersey. A fellow veteran, who served on the DEI Committee, refused to offer any assistance to a former Navy Seal at the Capitol on January 6, but who did not enter the building. So group think is firmly entrenched at New Jersey’s oldest law firm. Patriotism is openly frowned on, and that whole everyone deserves a competent defense thing is held in disdain. And it certainly does not apply to Trump supporters.
I firmly believe the 2020 election was stolen by idealogues on the left, and I have come to believe that Nancy Pelosi manipulated J6 as political theater to distract attention from the stolen election. Her nefarious plot worked better than she could have imagined.
I can’t think of an adequate word to describe my reaction to his original law firm’s attitude towards conservatives. “Enemies” comes closest.
What if we were to pool our resources and find a country that would welcome us.
Maybe an island in Phillipines
Maybe an Argentina region
Maybe someplace in Africa
Maybe the country of Georgia
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This kind of thing has happened many times in history.
It could work, especially if a billionaire or two could be found who would be willing to help invest in the project.
In exchange for providing us Safe Haven, the host country would receive a law-abiding skilled workforce.. with financial resources etc
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At Omaha beach 6/6/44 didn’t an officer yell to the pinned down troops —
“If we stay on this beach, we will all get picked off a few at a time;
But if we all get up and charge, at least some of us will survive.”
Today, we are facing similar circumstances — getting picked off a few at a time
—via lawfare
— via lack of advancement
— via DEI CRT etc
Obama promised to transform America and he has. He had eight years and more to do it, and he’s done it.
Imho the experience of this SEAL/lawyer Wm Brown is just one example. Look at the J6 prisoners look at Rudy Giuliani and PDJT etc etc etc
It would have to be Mars. There’s noplace left on the planet.
We would have to create it.
No different, really, than the French Canadians who departed Canada to settle in Louisiana (“Cajuns”).
No different than the Mormons who were unsatisfied with the way they were treated in the East, so they packed up and moved em masse to the midWest and then again to Utah — where, last I heard, they seem to have done quite nicely.
Not much different than the Englishmenand women who no longer felt comfortable in England, and so they packed up and moved to the Netherlands, and then several years later they did it again and resettled to North America.
And weren’t two cities in today’s Brazil founded by a cadre of families from the former Confederate States of America?
Many other examples of groups of people pooling resources, and resettling somewhere else on earth.
Many variations on this theme.
It can be done.
Sane Americans would do well to heed the lessons from history, and start making plans to create a better future for themselves elsewhere.
The alternative is to be taxed into near-poverty; to be constantly treated like second-class citizens; and to be massacred a la October 7.
🎶🎵🎶 There’s a place for us;
🎵🎶 Somewhere a place for us….:……
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🎵🎵 🎵 Somehow, Someday, Somewhere