Today in Randazza's Zings: Glenn Beck, Why Do You Hate America?

We can't get enough of Marc J. Randazza, the Gloucester attorney who is representing Isaac Eiland-Hall in his defense against claims filed by conservative crackpot Glenn Beck in World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) arbitration court. Beck wants Eiland-Hall to take down the website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990. But, since satire is protected by our First Amendment, Beck and his attorneys went overseas to try to get a hearing.

Today, we discovered an email that Randazza sent to Glenn Beck's attorneys wondering, in lawyer talk, why Glenn Beck hates America, musing, in part "It would be an interesting day indeed if Mr. Beck preferred to risk that a panelist would apply French law to a case between two Americans over a matter of public discourse." Here's an excerpt:

I recall that Beck publicly called Harold Koh, the Dean of Yale Law School, a “threat to American democracy” for his views on transnational law. Beck said of Koh: "[H]e wants to subordinate the American Constitution to foreign and international rules. We see that in his attack on First Amendment free speech principles, which he finds opprobrious."

Similarly, Mr. Beck said it best when he warned of the dangers of allowing international legal principles to trump our cherished constitutional rights: "Once we sign our rights over to international law, the Constitution is officially dead."

I am certain that neither party wishes to see First Amendment rights subordinated to international trademark principles, thus unwittingly proving Mr. Beck’s point.

We recently learned, thanks to a favorite blogger, that Randazza edits a blog, The Legal Satyricon, which you should add to your RSS reader, like, yesterday. Randazza doesn't actually live in Massachusetts anymore. According to his blog, he's a San Diego resident these days, but he does still run a practice out of Gloucester, which is good enough to get his pleadings on Bostonist, in our minds.