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HenryRossFirstEssay 5 - 14 Apr 2015 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | I have just thirteen months of immersion in Thai language and life, seven (mostly unhelpful) months of law school, and five months of work and research on legal aid provision. I should acknowledge that I am not well-informed enough about this topic to be confident in my assessment of the problem, that I am ill-prepared to solve it, and that I have likely belittled the problem by proposing an extracurricular activity to address it. The less the implementation of the idea relies on my limited knowledge and experience, the more likely it will be to succeed. If it fails, I’ll have to content myself with laying it to rest beneath the Thurgood Marshall epitaph that never was. | |
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I think the important disclaimer would be that it's a long way from what people say over pricey cocktails in midtown bars to what actually is involved in showing up for the food deliverers and sex workers of Elmhurst. You don't need Ron in the story: you put him there for color, which he has, but it wastes words: he's no part of your actual machinery. So we are left with Pii Praew, a sample of one, her possible off-stage friends, and your vision. | | | | |
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< | (Comment: Nico Gurian): Henry, I really like this idea. You say you may not be well-informed enough to be confident in your assessment of the problem. Surely this is true (for all of us, as we confront any situation or problem), but I think you are absolutely right in identifying a group of people who really will be in need of lawyering that you can provide. In terms of getting clients for the practice, what do you see as the best networking plan to meet people in that community? Do you think there will be any trust issues on their part? | >
> | Comments are still available in the page "History." But just as your next draft will clean out these comments of mine, replacing everything with a clean rewrite, this is a different revision of the page than the one other commentators made.
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< | I also thought the way you used the idea of the "stage" from Leff to explain how elite Thais might feel differently about their counterparts when in the US as opposed to back home in Thailand. This seems to be another example of "splitting" that we all keep coming back to. Do you think it would be possible for the "self" that changes perspectives in US to bring back that same self in Thailand, or is it a permanent disassociation? | >
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< | (Comment: Tonbara Ekiyor): I think it is a disassociation that is weakened by their involvement in projects such as that which Henry proposes. It is possible that back in Thailand, Pii Praew, though aware of the plight of Thais in need of legal assistance, probably never considered that giving assistance might be her responsibility. This could be for a variety of reasons, one of which could be the ease of passing the responsibility to someone else: the government, organizations committed to such projects in Thailand. As Henry points out there is something about being away from home that draws you closer to fellow countrymen that on the face of it, you have little in common with. Once a common ground (in this case, a common 'Thainess') is established, it is more difficult to shake when you return back home. | | | \ No newline at end of file | |
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