{"id":20414,"date":"2010-09-09T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20414"},"modified":"2010-09-09T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:11:15","slug":"i-thought-johnny-yuma-was-a-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20414","title":{"rendered":"I thought Johnny Yuma was a rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is pretty funny, The American Bar Associaton features the Lionel Hutz <\/a>of the peace lawyers, James Branum<\/a>, in their Legal Rebels<\/a> column this issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had clients confess to me things that would be war crimes, like having to kill children who came too close to their vehicle when they were in combat,\u201d Branum says. \u201cOn the other hand, I hear about soldiers who take tremendous risks to do the right things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clients, many of whom find Branum on the Internet through Google ads or the blog on his website GIRightsLawyer.com, pay a sliding fee, usually between $60 and $150 an hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A lawyer who is aware of crimes and doesn’t report them? Isn’t that unethical? $150\/hour? For soldiers and their familes? I notice he didn’t mention that sometimes he lives with his clients, eats them out of house and home and then when his clients get evicted because they can’t pay their rent, Branum moves on to the next patsy.<\/p>\n

Branum estimates that last year he earned about $20,000, and he is hoping to earn $25,000 this year. An active member of the Joy Mennonite Church in Oklahoma City, he lives in an apartment owned by the congregation and serves as their minister of peace and justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I should apply to be that church’s War and Torture minister so I can get me a free house.<\/p>\n

He also decided a law degree would serve his faith more than protesting and agitating, although he still does that too, often just outside army bases where his clients are detained. \u201cI came to the conclusion that the best thing I could do to make the world a more peaceful place was to help one soldier at a time get out,\u201d he says<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, they all get out of the service, alright, after a quick trip through a hoosegow. Speaking of which, Victor Agosto, one of Branum’s clients and a former inmate at Bell County, Texas jail has nothing but praise for Branum, the leech.<\/a> I wonder if they’re as happy about Branum’s performance as their lawyer while they’re in jail.<\/p>\n

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