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[Peerless]

The Speaker Law Firm | Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer

what a farking, self centered, greedy pig....from what I can discern, this d00d is a natural born lawyer (i.e. a lying POS who should be shot in the back of the head)...

anybody care to join the 'club' and leave a message at that site?

the facts are obvious..the a§§hole deliberately flew to Canada then drove into the U.S., sound like the actions of an innocent man?...sure, just like OJ...

[ursula]

...er, living in the mountainy bits of a smallish island I have not been Murdochly abused with this story...

What's it all about, Peerless ?

[AaronWalkhouse]

I'm sure you would do the same if you had been told you were not contagious
but were going to be forced to pay over $100,000 for a flight home that may or
may not happen in the next few months.

[Peerless]

he's a lawyer, and you believe him eh Aaron????



I don't believe a word out of his mouth, as I am quite aware of this strain of TB, and nobody can make me believe this d00d DIDN'T know what was up...noway was he told it was OK to travel, quite the contrary...

easy to logic out...he intentionally flew to Canada then crossed back into the US...you think if he wasn't told not to do so he would have just come straight to the US...but he didn't...he's guilty as sin and unlike other lawyers (who belong on the bottom of the ocean as sharks food), he deserves the barbed broomstick at the very least...more like the broomstick and the Vietnamese torture treatment (which is to be tied to an X of wood, have a bucket tied to his scrotum, and a rock added each day..after about 2 weeks gangrene is fully set in and his whole intestinal track falls out)

this strain of TB is ultra dangerous, and this pr!ck may very well die from it...it costs over $20,000 for the drug regimen to even begin to try and cure this stuff...he's just a modern day Typhoid Mary....

[townie2]

i thought i saw on the news where the guys brother-in-law is a doctor who specializes in contagious diseases. smells fishy to me.

[ursula]

Originally Posted by Peerless

...after about 2 weeks gangrene is fully set in and his whole intestinal track falls out

Gosh, with flens like that who needs enemas ?

[mstfyd]

[QUOTE=Peerless;273389]unlike other lawyers (who belong on the bottom of the ocean as sharks food), he deserves the QUOTE]

Hey! My brother is a lawyer, aside from being a real sweetheart , he isn't a sellout. While the profession isn't exactly overflowing with lawyers who have principles, they do exist.

As for TB boy, you are right. It's so obviously a case of "I'm gonna do what I want to do". I wonder if his wife knows what she's gotten into (people with an exxagerated sense of entitlement don't usually confine it to one area), or perhaps she's just like him? He should have to pick up the cost of treatment for anyone he infected (did anyone catch it from him?), as well as the increased costs involved with his actions. I can't believe he isn't at least facing reckless endangerment charges. Once again money talks.

An interesting side note: at blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/05/31/law-blog-lawyer-of-the-day-andrew-speaker-not/ , a commenter on this story wrote that his father-in-law is a CDC Microbiologist specializing in the spread of TB!!

[AaronWalkhouse]

Apparently you didn't read the news reports thoroughly. A common error
when one has prejudged the subject. The newspapers in Canada probably
gave a more thorough effort to the story as well.

1. He was told repeatedly that he was not contagious in the days leading up to
   his departure, and this was backed up by negative test results. He was not
   told it was okay to travel, but after he asked whether he was forbidden
   to travel he was told he was not. Since he was going to his own wedding,
   it is quite reasonable to go ahead in the face of such weak opposition.
   Don't forget that nobody knew it was the drug-resistant form at the time.
   
   
2. He could not fly directly back to the U.S. because his return ticket was
   cancelled and he could not get a new reservation to fly directly back. They
   belatedly put him on the No-Fly list (as though he was a terrorist) after
   he was already on a jet to Montreal. It's not like he was defying Homeland
   Security after all.
   
   
3. The americans suggested he turn himself in to quarantine in Rome, but he was
   not sure they had sufficient expertise to deal with the matter anyway. Far
   safer to get home quickly before the disease could develop at all, and where
   his new father-in-law, a TB expert, could be of some help.
   
   
4. He was told that the only option the americans could give him was to send a
   CDC plane (a plane not suitable for carrying quarantined people anyway) and
   that it was unlikely that they would be able to send the plane quickly in any
   case because they were completely unprepared for such an "emergency". As it
   turned out they couldn't even do that for him, so he and his new bride were
   effectively stranded by their own government with no solution in sight.

In any case the panic was certainly over the top, as the Montreal Gazette reports:
Everything you need to know for a dinner-party conversation about ... Infected travellers.
In fact, as the Canadian newspapers reported, most of the publically
expressed hatred and anger occurred when Mr Speaker was revealed to be a
personal injury lawyer, not when he was just a groom on a honeymoon. How
fair is that, eh?

[6_pac]

The reaction has probably been a little overblown, but blame the media on that. Isn't it ironic though that he's a personal injury lawyer and if given the chance, would sue the pants off someone else for doing what he did.....Things that make you go hmmmm .

[Peerless]

I read the news..and watch the news..and they are all owned by corporations with an agenda, so I really don't pay attention to the 'punch line'...

again, Speaker can spin his story all he likes, in the end he is still a person who for all intensive purposes is paid to lie...if he is soooo safe to be around, then why is his wife wearing that ridiculous looking mask when she is near him?

sounds like you believe the individual is more important than the society in cases like this...I guess you have no problems having sex with an AIDS carrier?