Taitzenfreude

If a lawyer who who represents himself has a fool for a client, the client who chooses to be represented by Orly Taitz should be institutionalized. You know Taitz — she’s the lawyer/dentist who plays general counsel to the idiotic birther “movement.” Taitz, a lunatic, appears regularly on television to scream about Obama’s place of birth and accuse anyone who disagrees (including various judges who have ruled against her) of “treason.” Here’s a sample:

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This will come as a shock, but even with that steady temperament and rock-solid ability to apply her trademark unassailable logic, a court in Georgia today ordered Taitz to pay $20,000 in sanctions.

The decision wasn’t made without deliberation or cause. Taitz filed a lawsuit in federal court in Georgia trying to get an order protecting her military-doctor client from having to comply with her deployment orders because the commander-in-chief, in Taitz’s opinion, is not eligible to serve. Not surprisingly, the suit was tossed out by Judge Clay Land, who, as if to prove the insidiousness of his liberal activist agenda, got himself appointed by George W. Bush.

Once Taitz’s Georgia case was thrown out and her client very publicly fired her and promised to file a grievance with the California Bar Association, Taitz filed another document with the court accusing the judge of being biased.  The bias, Taitz alleged, is due not to the fact that she’s a raving nutburger who files patently meritless lawsuits, but because Judge Land is involved in a conspiracy with the federal government (which is of course headed by President Obama (who she calls a “usurper“).

Taitz sought to prove the Obama-judge conspiracy by filing an affidavit — the kind referred to in legal terms as completely whacked out. The affiant claimed to have seen the judge meeting in a coffee shop across the street from the federal courthouse with Attorney General Eric Holder. The “witness” recognized Holder based on his “well know [sic] TV displayed distinguishing features: his trim upper lip mustache, not large of stature and general olive complexion.” In what Taitz will surely cite as proof of the existence of a conspiracy, the Holder-judge meeting in Columbus, Georgia was found not to have taken place at all (at least in part, as the judge pointed out, because Holder was in Los Angeles at the time).

In response to the sanction, Taitz says she won’t pay. That refusal means the public can look forward to additional orders, either from Judge Land or an appellate court, excoriating her.

Taking satisfaction in the suffering or misfortune of another is called schadenfreude. Those who experience it are supposed to feel guilty. But if it’s wrong to derive joy from watching a dangerous nutcase like Orly Taitz get what she has coming, who wants to be right? There should be an exemption for rational people who enjoy watching unhinged lawyer/dentists implode. We could call it Taitzenfreude.

With that in mind, Taitzenfreude addicts can no doubt look forward to a number of additional punishments coming Orly’s way. She’s facing one pending and one threatened California Bar Association complaint, so her future as a lawyer is in doubt. Can her dental license be far behind (and by the way, who would let this lunatic work on their teeth?)?

But for now, today’s Taitzenfreude can be experienced in full by reading Judge Land’s 42 page smackdown here.

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