Ralph Nader: on Harvard Law School and Systems of Justice in America

[@echomugisha1784]

every law students needs to listen to this thank you Mr. Nader

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

They won't.

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@kodfkdleepd2876 Sad.

[@tbell1698]

Ralph Nader deserves a medal of honor; he's single-handedly done more for the American public than almost any public servant or politician in the last 100 years. He's a true humanitarian and hero. I still cannot get over his loss in the presidential election. If only...

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

The masses vote for who they are told by tic toc, facebook, and twitter. Was really no different decades ago... just different media.

[@lohphat]

He lost because you don't build a campaign for the top down. The office of the presidency is not an entry-level job and is the endgame of party wins through the states and country races. Like Bernie, he failed 9th grade civics. Politics is a team effort and both never understood that. The didn't have legislative allies who would write their agendas into law. The presidency is not a monarchy and the power actually rests with the legislature. If he or Bernie wanted to ACTUALLY win, they would have been members of a larger party to garner legislative power and momentum before running for the top office.

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

@@lohphat WRONG. Politics is about using manipulation, lies, and crime. Biden literally is a certified liar and has been doing it for decades. He's president because he's a criminal and the establishment is criminal. Chances are you are a criminal because no one can be that dumb.

[@lohphat]

@@kodfkdleepd2876 oh look. Another 9th grade civics drop out.

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

@@lohphat Oh look, another moron who can't do basic 5th grade arithmetic but thinks he's a genius. Sorry your pathetic existence is so pathetic... but that is what happens when you are an imb3c!l3. Maybe your mother should have aborted you correctly.

[@blackfreud9048]

Nader represents a courage and integrity that America has been trying to destroy.

[@jarrettevanbrown]

Thank you for hosting Mr. Nader and for posting this lecture.

[@carlretter4263]

A few people have a light that shines so brighthly you can see it in the daylight. Ralph Nader is a daytime star. Thanks

[@bleacherz7503]

We’ve had one - just one - man of this caliper over the past 60 years. Amazing

[@johnwest194]

thank goodness for ralph nader the tireless advocate. my hero

[@maupinmaupin1472]

Thank you Ralph Nader. I voted for you twice.

[@uncletony6210]

hope you didn't in FL in 2000.

[@maupinmaupin1472]

@@uncletony6210 no, not in FL

[@uncletony6210]

@@maupinmaupin1472 ok, good!

[@RyanFeatherston]

+Uncle Anthony More Florida Democrats voted for Bush than Gore or Nader combined that year.

[@PortlandsTransport]

Ralph Nader-a truly great American

[@grannygotcha9809]

American

[@ESuccessMasters]

He’s a Saint in our times

[@kristin1533]

He is a saint. Everything he's done has gone to the public benefit, not his own. What an amazing man.

[@babymammoth34]

@@kristin1533 Nah, he still has a massive ego and really should just stop appearing and speaking in public and get himself a nice catamaran and sail off into the sunset and spend his twilight days far away...

[@babymammoth34]

@@kristin1533 He just makes an unapologetic, cluless fool out of himself...

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@babymammoth34 Ralph will do no such thing. And he isn't a narcissist. And he can appear and talk in public if he wants to. On top of that, if he did apologize for 2000, you would probably reject said apology anyway. Ralph isn't a clueless fool, either. You are, though. LOL!

[@NestaVision2007]

If you look of the word "justice" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of Ralph Nader - a national treasure...

[@nealtauss1715]

@g.anderson....No.... you won't.... BUT.... if we ALLL get busy.... like he says.... not even all of us.... just SOME of us.... maybe one Day.... you will.

[@JonSmith-gh2fo]

Should be required listening for every newly accepted law student

[@dennishickey7194]

Quickly forgotten. They've joined the perverse ABA by now. If we had inalienable rights why must we rent them from lawyers? If any if what they serve us is due process why is it ever necessary to falsify transcripts in felony cases?

[@peterkerruish8136]

Just take a moment to imagine what a different world we would be living in if this Man had been elected President....

[@hotconcrete]

Yes, he may have been a great President. But think of how the United States and the world would be different if Nader had not run for President in 2000. He was the single reason that Al Gore lost to George Bush. Nader split the Democratic vote enough to cost Gore the win. Just think of how things would be different had Bush lost...Maybe no 9/11, no Iraq war and its consequences, no Afghanistan war, possibly no Tea Party, Bush's selections on the Supreme Court, Bush did not push to renew the assault weapons ban when it expired in September 2004, and the collapse of the US economy in 2008! Of course, there could have been different negative results had Gore been elected, but we know what happened as a result of Bush winning.

[@isidoreaerys8745]

I would pay money just to see it. I would give anything to go there.

[@skellys1948]

@jcorb Since Gore lost by 5 Electoral College "votes," he would have won the election, had he won either his former partner, Clinton's, home state of Arkansas (6 votes) or his OWN HOME STATE of Tennessee (11 votes), notwithstanding anything that happened, in Florida. He lost both those states, including the State where his father had served, in the House, and then three times (18) years in the U.S. Senate, and he, himself, had served for a total of 16 years, all from Tennessee. And those homeboys didn't vote for him in 2000. And we got Bush.

[@cosmicblaze1608]

My thoughts exactly

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@hotconcrete Actually, Ralph Nader isn't responsible for George W. Bush, and thus, isn't responsible for Albert Gore losing in 2000. Your favorite Albert Gore has only himself to blame for losing in 2000 because he was an mediocre at best candidate. Dude couldn't even win his homestate of TN. And Gore also had prior knowledge of 9/11 but did nothing, and Gore later went on to support the war too. Ralph had every right to seek the presidency, btw. What you are doing is Scapegoating as well as Gaslighting. Even your favorite Albert Gore agrees that Ralph Nader is innocent of any wrong doing! Shows what an out of touch neoliberal centrist you are.

[@Juan-ud3if]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ There is nothing more Precious than Truthfulness, Honesty and Justice. Bless these Truth Fighters.

[@xanbex8324]

I want to cry don't know why.....perhaps it is the recognition of the rarity of this wonderful man. Precious indeed!

[@ironcurtainsteve]

Nader. The best president we never had.

[@kekfreedomheritage5633]

Great points. Important reminders. Bravo.

[@dramastudiobordeaux8058]

At 17:00 when he starts talking about Lawyers careers and who they represent.... the auditorium goes very quiet. Listen. Its fascinating.

[@dennishickey7194]

They know they'll be serving the causes he's dedicated his life to oppose. They'll smother their conscience soon enough and be good and loyal ABA members( and comfortably well off with luck!)

[@Juan-ud3if]

How many Lawyers have stood up for the masses since 2015, it's now 2022's end. Make 2023 Count for Humanity. Make the lives and efforts of these great men count, before their gone. They deserve heaven for their honesty and truthfulness.

[@peggydale4638]

Beautiful introduction. We should all listen to this man

[@kristin1533]

It's really good that the speaker who introduced Nader summed up what Nader has done. It goes back to the 1960s and a lot of people don't know about it.

[@aion5837]

Ralph Nader embodies what the US could have been.

[@babymammoth34]

So, is that why he selfishly ran in the 2000 election and helped bush??

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@babymammoth34 Stop blaming Ralph Nader for George W. Bush and accept the fact that your favorite Albert Gore lost in 2000 by being a mediocre at best candidate. Dude couldn't even win his homestate of TN. Ralph isn't selfish, either and he had every right to seek the presidency. Plus, your favorite Albert Gore picked Joseph Lieberman, a right wing moral crusader basically catfishing as a leftist, as his running mate. Lieberman later went on to support the War on Terror, as did your favorite Albert Gore, btw. And Joe went on to give a speech at the 2008 RNC and endorse Jonathan McCain that same year. Once again, What you are doing is Scapegoating as well as Gaslighting. Even your favorite Albert Gore agrees that Ralph Nader is innocent of any wrong doing! Shows what an out of touch neoliberal centrist you are.

[@mariatischler3476]

Áll my respect to Mr Nader from Hungary, Budapest. Mr Nader is my HERO I told it to hím in New York public libeary and a Barcel and Noble book store .Im sorry I couldnt be there now, to see hím again. Personelly. Please be healthy Mr Nader in next Year. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO MR NADER FROM HUNGARY BUDAPEST, MARIKA

[@whygohome172]

Ralph is one of the ONLY ONES with the balls to hear the CALL and Actually TAKE the hero's journey. We have more demons than heros!

[@cathycarreon5879]

Mr Nadel your angel in this present situation now . Big respect

[@moesiatestecles1975]

What a great introduction. I hope he kept the pace up and is doing something profound.

[@kerryburns6041]

Lawyers fighting for justice ...? Where´s the money in that ? Lawyers feed off the difficulties of others ---- They are only needed where justice is uncertain. Real exponents of the law, like Mr Nader, may be just small flies buzzing around the great destructive beast, but they have, at least, retained their integrity.

[@anonymous19844]

The VERY sad thing about this 6-year-old video is that as of today, 12/4/21, 6 years later, it has only 34,303 views.

[@jenamirgholi6004]

the path is narrow my friend. idiots are in the masses.

[@SongDog9]

What a great man!!! Thank you. Mr. Nader for making my life better when i was growing up. I probably would have been dead without him.

[@courtcourtmail7963]

What I like most about Ralph Nader is that I would mindlessly do whatever he asked me to

[@nealtauss1715]

@countcourtmail.... what I MOST like about Citizen Nader is that he asks us to DISPLACE mindless behaviors.... in favor of MINDFULL engagement of the Democratic Process AND.... Civic Responsibillity....

[@tnguyen318]

Ralph Nader attended Princeton and Harvard University.

[@niteriderband4713]

What a great man. A fine US president he would make!

[@stevenyourke7901]

Law and justice are at best distant cousins. Law is the rule of the stronger. The dictate of the power elite. Unless you’re already wealthy, you can hardly afford to dedicate your life to fighting for justice. It’s not impossible but it’s very difficult.

[@boombot934]

God bless Ralph Nader!

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

For sure!!! 😃

[@RyanFeatherston]

Yes.

[@TheQuixoticRambler]

Salt of the earth, a supreme Gentleman.

[@andreac6024]

He inspired me, but I’m not a Harvard law student. I wonder if he changed the life trajectory or anyone in the audience 🤔. That would be good.

[@mikhail113]

Thank you for the wisdom and inspiration.

[@d.martin6847]

Harvard is culpable in our demise.

[@dennishickey7194]

You don't get apples from a lemon tree. Ever law school graduates students who become loyal members of the American Bar Association. It and its state franchises are the defacto(we citizens are the rightful and sole owners) possessors of the courts and operate them to their profit at our most grievous loss. Perhaps it's best not to offer full argument here but to. pose a single question: If any of it is due process why is it ever necessary to falsify transcripts in felony court cases?

[@isidoreaerys8745]

@@dennishickey7194 that’s such a good point. Our governance, our justice system, our commerce, ALL have been captured by a Legal elite who have purposely made every aspect of our society inaccessible to the common man, who cannot afford their services. Fixing this involves passing plain language legislation statutes

[@dennishickey7194]

@@isidoreaerys8745 We have legislative bodies overwhelming populated by lawyers not a cross section of Americas representing our diversity. A hammer treats everything not a hammer as a nail. A businessman tends to see government as a business and applies its principles to government if elected. A teacher, farmer,or housewife in like manner brings their perspective to bear.Even the few elected to represent us instead often defer to lawyer colleagues as the attorneys"know the law". Lawyers make law and insist they alone can interpret it in courts where they're the defacto owners.We are told ignorance of the law is no excuse but even when the statute is plainly written and our understanding sound we are told we're mistaken. We have no recognized rights,none. The only persons with rights granted by the U.S. Supreme Court (who awarded them status as people) are corporations! We the people have a set of privileges that may be granted in full, in part or not at all. Inalienable rights by the leave of others are odd ones. As President, Bill Clinton invoked attorney privilege to use their private dictionary. It was no perjury under oath or contempt of Congress to swear, "I did not have sex with that woman".or "It depends on what your definition of 'is' is." I guess sex can only be sexual congress when before Congress. Perhaps they'll jump in to bring the matter to a satisfying climax. To end on a more troubling note: If the process they serve us in court is our due why do they ever need to change felony transcripts?

[@alvaroLguevara]

Just luv this man, 50+ years

[@gregoryvangaya8971]

Wow! I'm pretty radical and have studied and worked for the evolution of jurisprudence as history, tradition and philosophical logic, most of my life... And this just iced the cake of great philosophies as per the Dharma§āstra, and finally, in the West - Habermas ! Just wow! MIT has Chomsky, I didn't know Harvard has Nader. He just single handedly made your reputation worth something for me, maybe even putting Harvard Law within the philosophical march of jurisprudence... Maybe?

[@therealmonty66]

A living legend 🇭🇲🇭🇲

[@jfeast5469]

Watched this for a class I'm taking. Very inspiring!

[@IvoMiller]

Brilliantly stated

[@SaurierDNA]

Every law student will have to pay for their kids education and care financially for their future family..Who is going to sacrifice alll that? The system is self destructive

[@niteriderband4713]

If the law profession would do these two things, tackle campaign finance reform and eliminate quip pro quo of elected politicians, this would guarantee democracy and strengthen justice in the US!

[@ignorecorporatenews]

RALPH NADER IS A SAINT

[@kenbranaugh8251]

Good work. God bless America home of the free.

[@mikeoglen6848]

That was a very interesting talk.

[@skyazrael5487]

I voted Nadar every time he ran.

[@bananasslamim3005]

answer me that Harvard law school , and no bs with all honesty and respect to such a great reputation.

[@stirgy4312]

Came for the corvair, stayed for the Nader.

[@texasveteran5304]

Do the right thing or get rich is what this lecture should be called. No one would show up if it was.

[@danielfreund1707]

This is just an incredible talk that gets to the heart of what it really means to live a meaningful life. He is challenging them not to be seduced by the millions of dollars they know they can make upon graduating.

[@mungbean823]

know the truth and it will set you free!!!

[@0zoneTherapyCures]

"What good is an education? The boisterous guessers are still in charge - the haters of information. And the guessers are almost all highly educated people. Think of that. They have had to throw away their educations, even Harvard or Yale educations, to become guessers. If they didn’t do that, there is no way their uninhibited guessing could go on and on and on." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

[@johnbergamini3567]

I am a lawyer by the definition given here, despite having just a B.S. in mathematics from an unaccredited college. I have found the field of law almost entirely void of the "lawyer" Ralph speaks of. Specifically, for example, how many lawyers are really "mindful of deficiencies of justice"? Where have our lawyers been for the past two centuries defending the original 13th amendment against the illegal "honour" of "limited liability" which is the criminal cornerstone of the corporate state? I guess the question of whether "limited liability" is an "honour" under the original, censored thirteenth amendment is the biggest taboo for Harvard educated corporate lawyers. Please prove me wrong.

[@bananasslamim3005]

Someone tell me why charge their own people for "law School"" private" schools . being a private school they can charge and only have selected backgrounds or rich people ? only a selected few can join why are the big ass schools private ,? he says himself and people ate it like like pudding

[@chadkline4268]

What attorneys do not know is that Americans that do not declare federal citizenship are free.

[@carlettagoodrich-mann1377]

Separate but equal . High safety measures . VP or Presidential age matters. Environmental controls corporate giants conscious works where Goldman Sachs or Rutter Mills GOODOVE etc must have conscious mindsets for consumers. Hidden figures are necessary to protect victims of systemic racism .

[@Juan-ud3if]

When a corporate lawyer was born, people said "Congratulations the Devil has a Son." What will turn this World back to being an Honest place? When will Justice Wake Up? Will Rich Brats Care?

[@arthurfrancisd.murphy1643]

Excellent

[@IShowRalph]

Ralph is Me and Nader is my friend lol

[@darrellroberson4401]

Please consult Mr. Gerald Home

[@mllm5723]

Ive got video i found on tic tok of this from two different people. It is the space station. It caused all the fires in canada. I havevideo of icbm over new york

[@IvoMiller]

Ralph Nader cannot be Tempted. Like the Devil trying to tempt Jesus. Jump. You’re the Son of God. Jesus was NO FOOL. You can’t Con the Son of God. I said it again

[@mikeboyd50]

how minm times dos a man have to pay his tim fo a crim that he did npt comut but aqused 20 years a go

[@nealtauss1715]

....and after he gets out.... he's STILL paying....

[@dorotapogubila4427]

Now I know why he couldn’t be president ever.

[@goedelite]

Mr Nader: Not just the Ivy League law schools or others; the schools of journalism also are to blame for the demise of our highly flawed, quondam democracy - if we ever had one - and the descent into militarism and imperialism. The production of jounalistic liars has been phenomenal. The best, most trustworthy reporters and journalists are not generally from the "best" schools of journalism. Has Fred Friendly's Columbia School of Law produced any? I don't believe that honest journalists and reporters come from such celebrated loci: journalists and authors such as Matt Taibbi, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Ben Norton.

[@Juan-ud3if]

The Banks had the Gall, but why were they bailed out? By the War machine? By the Corporations that benefit from them?

[@jamesfiaco4922]

it's a simple concept basic logic if life is not free why the hell would death be any cheaper it's not. So the question one may wonder is the spiritual cost to one's own soul and spirit for having lived and died to the lowest standards of quality for so many years now global pollution has diminished the quality of life to the point where today's people are living, dying and yielding the worst spiritual kickback that has ever been manifested since the beginning of life only getting worse. The polar opposite extreme to that is today's people should be living and dying to the highest standards of quality which would make each and every moment physically, mentally, financially and spiritually beneficial. S.R.F.

[@MrAdrianaangel]

They need to discuss how MK Ultra is targeting Jews.

[@mllm5723]

Californians saved on auto insurance because of him

[@goedelite]

What the scholars don't face is that every democracy has succumbed to corruption. The numbers of patriots who have tried to defend its institutions have never been large. Less often have they been in the institutions themselves. Not only has it been unprofitable to be such a defender, but it has been exceedingly dangerous. In my view, democracy cannot survive in polities that allow great differences in personal wealth to develop or to exist within them. Democracy and capitalim are incompatible. The latter promotes the development and existence of large differences in personal income and property. Scholars such as Nader and Fein are, I believe, unwilling to accept this incompatibilty. To do so would make political democracy unattractive. Most people, I believe, are unwilling to accept a limitation on their fortunes as the cost of curbing corruption of democratic government. They would include Nader and Fein, my guess, because they do not deal with this reality. They, instead, try to pursuade us that if only citizens organized themselves and made their political leaders into guardians of probity and responsible government, corruption could be minimized even averted. The problem is who will watchdog the watchdogs? Impossible! The only way democracy can exist is to have not only liberty and fraternity but the perpetually missing economic equality, the anitithesis of capitalism. The government must have the authority to seize personal wealth for the purpose of redistribution when it exceeds the mean value beyond a clearly defined amount. No person may have the wealth to buy another.

[@rbj5767]

❣️

[@shimes424]

My If I could trace the problems of the United States back to one thing, it would certainly be Harvard Law school

[@alpine1600s]

Ralph Nader is a bureaucrat. The NHTSA is a part of the independent agencies in DC that have practically zero oversight until it's practically too late for any accountability to be enforced. Anthony Fauci showed how vulnerable we are to such bureaucracy.

[@jubachoomba]

He’s asking the lawyers to catalyze a religious conversion. This is the reason for his failure.

[@phatster88]

Commendable but there is no way for you to change the system from the inside, you will get owned.

[@bananasslamim3005]

and of course general public Dont have access to how the works in the use their own people citizens snakes , private party being that they have their own rights cant be questioned or give out anything and who funds the privacy of those school what are they keeping private , the fact only Rich people have access to the law or Harvard school concerns me , what kind of party would sponsor schools like this I don't know how or when there was a bill , law or legislative act passed that their own people own citizens have to pay for law school to know the law, humans right, a birth right. , why not (US government) fund public law school for the general public HOW IT SHOULD BE.

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

Ah, yes....the best and the brightest. I've abhorred that expression since the architects of the Project of a New American Century were appointed to posts in Bush 43's administration and exercised their influence on it and the people.

[@bananasslamim3005]

PROFESSION?

[@robertlauter25]

Phylis Schlaffley a conservative was the first of those fifteen, notice the lefty "left"that out

[@MaryLee-r2v]

Miller Elizabeth Johnson Jessica Taylor Richard

[@richardnailhistorical3445]

Well was listening while falling asleep and could have bet I was listening to a Jew talking about social engineering a new society instead it's an Antiochian Greek Orthodox Christian, Ralph Nadar preaching how everybody needs to combine into 'one massive blob' to save the world? No? I'm wrong? He is talking about a 'fantasy' future, whereby there will be all these new technologies, endless job opportunities, endless supply of jobs, etc.sounds like a pep talk from the 50's? This talk from what I see was put on 7 years ago and I am probably only one who is analyzing this presentation differently, everybody who commented made him seem like a god? The world has come around the corner since he made this talk but he should have seen most of what is environmentally happening today. If I were a young person I'd swear he's telling me there's no problem to go out and multiply, add to 8 billion, make it 10 billion, plenty of resources, who needs habitat for animals when we (humans) need it? Screw acidic oceans, total nonsense, melting ice - that's what ice does is melt, who cares? Ralph is caught up in this economy of never ending growth and it is precisely that mental attitude that drives it forward everyday of the year; it's wrong, dangerous, insane.

[@waltdill927]

You are an idiot.

[@jenamirgholi6004]

I hope the united states governement apologizes to you. You were backstabbed by people who should have been embracing you. so stupid to put money over the good nature of proper brain circuitry.

[@anthropod4]

he puts naziis to shame, consumers too; higher integrity & honor wins out over bigotry & deviant gpv't officials - confederates

[@2HHB]

2:35

[@onlythewise1]

but why is 99% of laywers no good

[@mikeboyd50]

thay fouind i he was insent of the crime but now he in asity & thy say he for binden to go to a coumeaty funcion or thanking mille or crimastmasmil or prad not thing but be home band

[@paulwarren796]

HA HA , HAIL HAIL THE GANG'S ALL HERE--HELLO EDUCATION FOUNDATION.... MAY THE WHISTLES BLOW FOR ELIZABETH & RALPH!!!!!!!!!!! PWW

[@paulwarren796]

WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ME?????? PWW

[@paulwarren796]

I SHOULD HAVCE WON A LAWSUIT , LONG AGO . PWW

[@paulwarren796]

PLEASE , PLEASE HELP ME AWAY FROM THESE DAMN BIKINI WOMEN!

[@ericsteinhauer3991]

I wonder if this moral mic drop fell on deaf ears

[@schmoborama]

omg great intro some time after the 2000 election I was watching an old 60's episode of Hawaii 50 ( bear with me ) and they catch this guy after a car chase and the guy says "I don't get it, my car wouldn't go over 70", and McGarret is like "tell it to Ralph Nader" lololol