Anti-PD screed, recycled

This week public defender hater Kirsten Anderberg has renewed her call for all public defenders to abandon their posts, in a post to Portland indymedia.

In fact, her January 12, 2006 essay arguing for a general p.d. strike is the very same one she posted in December 2004. Come on now, surely we evil minions of the State must have improved a tiny bit in that time! I talked about this Anderberg rerun the first time it aired. It turns out that there have been some positive developments around here since then.

But I suppose incremental improvements are inconsequential to the Revolution, or when there are personal issues to be worked out in a public forum. I really, really wish "Sam" the Seattle public defender had treated Anderberg better so long ago.

The entertainment (in a masochistic sort of way) in Anderberg's warmed-over PDX post is in the comments it's inspired:

"...the article above mischaracterizes the work of a public defender. Its not their job to fix someone's entire life problems, or even explain to mothers why their sons are incarcerated. Its their job to do what their clients want them to do-whatever that may be- and give them the best advice possible. I only wish we could have equal funding then we could do a better job."

"What happens to the 85% - 90% of the accused while the PDs are on strike? Do they just sit there waiting for their "equal representation"? My point was, I wouldn't want to be one of the sacrificial lambs stuck waiting in jail for the strike to be resolved in your scenario. It's quite noble of you to volunteer others for that."

"You seem to really hate and disparage the PDs. I agree that they are underresourced, and going on strike might be a good idea, but it's really not a good strategy to tell them you hate them, their work sucks, and that they're only part of the problem and will never be anything but."

Read and marvel how Anderberg flips out at her commentators.