O'Block Sues Bear

[Martin Eisenstadt]

What are the odds of O'Block and his small, private business getting a fair shake from this incestuous sewer of leftist rabble?

Here are a couple of the highlights from the Frontline hatchet job:

Then, in 2002, the story broke about the cat. O’Block remains vexed by what he calls a “stunt” orchestrated by a member of a competing professional organization.

“First of all, ACFEI did not certify a cat…[It] certified a human being who used fraudulent credentials and called himself Dr. Katz,” O’Block wrote in an email.

O’Block vehemently denies that ACFEI is a diploma mill, saying the group has thousands of satisfied members. He has filed five lawsuits in the last year against individuals — mostly bloggers — who have posted statements O’Block claims are defamatory about his organizations. One is pending. The others have been dismissed by courts or at the parties’ request after bloggers agreed to take down posts.

Wecht said he doubted that having the certificate on my resume would be enough to persuade a court to allow me to give expert testimony. Any decent lawyer, he said, could easily cast doubt upon my qualifications.

“A kid right out of law school would say, ‘Ma’am, just exactly what is your training?’” Wecht said. “The point I’m making, you see, is that that piece of paper doesn’t mean that much.”

So if a piece of paper doesn't mean that much, what's the big deal? If any lawyer easily can expose a fake "expert" with no training or experience, what is the point?

In its 2009 report, the National Academy of Sciences called for several measures to address systemic flaws involving forensic examiners and expert testimony.

Certification should be mandatory for forensics professionals and should be overseen by a centralized credentialing agency, the report said.

A "centralized credentialing agency"????? Oh, you mean like the government? And isn't that really what's it's all about? The statists want Big Brother's iron hand to certify everything you do, big and small.