U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is looking for a few good attorneys to join the Justice Department and defend your voting rights:
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine. Applicants who meet the qualification requirements and are able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation are encouraged to identify targeted disabilities in response to the questions in the Avue application system seeking that information.emphasis added.
It's an outrage that the Justice Department is looking for lawyers with "mental retardation".
Don't they know that the new term for this is "individuals with intellectual disability"?
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 04, 2010 09:35 AM | Email ThisU. S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division, Voting Section
Trial Attorney, GS-14/15. The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division is seeking up to 10 experienced attorneys for the position of Trial Attorney in the Voting Section in Washington, D.C.
They weren't looking for office help.
Under the section, Other Information:
As part of the on-line application process, applicants are asked to provide - on a voluntary basis - demographic information on their race/ethnicity/national origin, sex and disability. Applicants are also asked to indicate how they learned about this vacancy. This information is used to determine if our recruitment efforts are reaching all segments of the population, consistent with federal equal employment opportunity laws.
The boilerplate form is what is insensitive.
Posted by: SouthernRoots on February 4, 2010 09:56 AMI'm a lot more concerned over Holder and the Obama administration's treatment of terrorists as ordinary criminals, giving them the Constitutional rights of citizens.
Posted by: Palouse on February 4, 2010 10:03 AMRetarded has suddenly become "the R word". It's leftist idiocy at its finest. I think they are cracking up.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 4, 2010 10:14 AMIt's probably a EOE rule or Government regulation that the disclaimer be added to all job postings. Basically no-brain regulations forcing what is done, rather than letting thinking people actually do the work.
It also eliminates any culpability since there's a "regulation" that mandated the action (just like most zero-tolerance laws).
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on February 4, 2010 01:52 PMThere are also MANY attorneys who are lazy, maladjusted idiots. And really, who do we want them working for? The federal government, if we have a choice. :) We can resent them taking our taxpayer dough in their paychecks. But we definitely want them defending the socialist laws/"civil rights" regulations put out by our politician friends.
(and yes, I work for the federal government)
Posted by: AD on February 4, 2010 03:16 PMI was re-reading Philip K. Dick's "Clans of the Alphane Moon" recently, which describes a colony of mental patients. The different diagnoses live in separate communities and fill different niches in the colony. This notice started me wondering whether certain kinds of mental illnesses would make a lawyer better at some kinds of cases.
For instance, would an obsessive-compulsive be better at cases that required endless amounts of detailed work? Or would a paranoid be a good prosecutor if he was after a really evil organization?
But then I realized that I don't know enough about lawyers and law firms to decide that question. Anyone else want to take a crack at it?
Posted by: Jim Miller on February 4, 2010 08:57 PM"... would an obsessive-compulsive be better at cases that required endless amounts of detailed work? Or would a paranoid be a good prosecutor if he was after a really evil organization? ... Anyone else want to take a crack at it?"
Well, you could Friend the certifiably bat crap crazy lawyer, Orly Taitz, and give her a crack at it. :-)