No! Because I was once a teenybopper and radical activist at an extremely clueless level. It never works. You may get some very fleeting reward or effect for one second. Seconds do not count. You need a long-lasting strategy. This whole area of suing people triggers me deeply. It is not only law school. From TV and radical politics, I thought you would walk around and say "Sue you" and get everything I wanted. Indeed, I saw SDS women with no clue say "My husband's a lawyer and he will sue you>" Yes, I thought they were powerful and so lucky to be married to lawyers. With time, I cam eto know the local SDS lawyers. The problem was that feminism was always advancing. When you say "My husband is x," you lose any credibility. I was so young. Within two years, I worked in a place where some women just had announce "My husband is X. " They actually believe that I, a Barnard student from a poor background, would drop everyone else to take them to the top. If they were able to say, "I am a doctor." or "I am a lawyer", i would have exercised dsicretionation and found a way to diplomatically get them service. Never ever will some rich bitch go ahead of a working person. I was not compoletely assimilated by the Borg.
This whole situation is amazing to me. Why can I meet powerful people in my everyday life or at some lecture and tell them about myself in three or words, and soon I am laughing with them. Yet here, where I have stronger ties, no one believes me. I have joked and obtained information from Tom Daschle, Edwin Meese, and others with no problem. Once you know a few words and behave yourself, public officials and CEOs truly want to know you. Staff members have trouble pulling ;them away so they can make important engagements. They live in an incestuous world. Yet they are completely dependent on word of mouth on the street. You may not believe me but I once had to pull officials away. I did not grow up knowing this information. I had long, long years of frustration and never understanding why others were talking to people I almost worshipped.
If anyone here remembers the 60s and the Berrigans, I loved Dan Berrigan. His poster was never on my wall with the Beatles, Dylan, the Stones, and the WHO but I admired him on a deeper level in many ways. Nevertheless, I had enough encounters in NY to know he might be all flash and a phoney. I am minding my own business at school. Through unusual circumstances, I happen to go someplace. Dan Berrrigan is there! I don't know what to say. Of course, I knew he from the papers that he was at Woodstock Jesuit Seminary. I am an undergrad at Columbia so i am very self-important. If it is half a block away from Columbia property, i don't go there. Back in my mind, I knew he prob. took the subway, shopped at the same stores. Only I never ran into him. Just as I consoled myself that I would never meet him ever, guess who starts popping up as I walk down the block, go to the dry cleaners. He is not always at Woodstock services. Many times I go and no Berrigan. Yet I keep going because the other Jesuits seem even more interesting. Every so often I go to Woodstock. Well, with no prior knowledge, he is now giving sermons and consecrating communion at my church. Not a Roman Catholic Church. I am receivng communion from Berrigan. For a while, I thought he was stalking me. He is still alive only he is so old now maybe not. If I met him now, I would warm and friendly.
Threatening to sue is very dangerous! Yes, there is no law against it. Don't think I reveal encounters with celebrities to almost anyone I know. Indeed, don't think I have ever told anyone in real life how clueles and awkward I once was. To me, it feels as though it just happened yesterday. Imagine a JW girl from Newark meeting Beatles, the Stones, presidents, Supreme Court justices, etc. I am not special. Thousands of people meet these people every day. It is not unusual. I reveal it here to encourage you to be bold. Risk being uncomfortable and awkward for a short time.
I cannot take all this sue this garbage! It never works in real life at any level. Believe me, I had an entire life before law school. Everyone else around me was imitiating SDS lawyers and William Kunstler. I was jealous that I was so deferential b/c of the Witnesses that I could not have all my wishes in life bu saying "Sue you." Over a long stretch of time I gradually realized that some deference gets you much further. MY JW behaviors carried over the Big Time Law. Everyone is brilliant. They all read the same books. Classmates and colleagues all specialize in obscure Bob Dylan quotes. Everyone took out Beatles albums to look at copyright data. I never heard Eric Clapton music or meet Klaus Vorrman. Nevertheless, because I scoured useless info, I saw Eric Clapton at the Fillmore East. He did not fill the place. During the Bangladesh concert, George Harrison said that some osus probably knew about Klaus Voorman but never saw him. so meet Klaus Voorman. Well, most people just sat there. You don't know basic Beatles if you don't who Klaus Voorman is. Well, I found out I was not the only person who always wanted to see Klaus Voorman. With unusuql security in place at Madison Square Garden, one third of the audience risked being ejected from the concert to go to the aisle and see Klaus Voorman from a better angle.
There is no magic. People spend a lot of money to find out what I share. Ignore it if you want. I don't give a d... about people who are repeatedly clueless after many attempts at education. There is absolute proof here on an ongoing basis that no one learned the lesson about education. Personally, I don't know anything about many thing so when I find someone with knowledge I so profoundly lack, i am so grateful. You can spend money and never find certain things. I have not been around such clueless people in decades. it is wearing thin. One area I know well. It is not academic and theoretical. Take it from someone who once did the stupid stuff most people do here. Life is so much better when you abandon the very mistaken notion that you know more than certain people. You do not. YOU DO NOT.