99% of attorneys give the rest of us a bad name

And for once, it's not Gloria Allred!

On March 31st of this year, Amy Alkon — a writer who blogs at the Advice Goddess Blog — was sexually assaulted in front of dozens of witnesses.

Amy — who refused to be scanned — was instead forcibly groped by a TSA employee. Unlike most Americans, she didn’t take it quietly. She expressed her feelings of violation and humiliation, in person at the time and in writing later:

Basically, I felt it important to make a spectacle of what they are doing to us, to make it uncomfortable for them to violate us and our rights, so I let the tears come. In fact, I sobbed my guts out. Loudly. Very loudly. The entire time the woman was searching me.

Nearing the end of this violation, I sobbed even louder as the woman, FOUR TIMES, stuck the side of her gloved hand INTO my vagina, through my pants. Between my labia. She really got up there. Four times. Back right and left, and front right and left. In my vagina. Between my labia. I was shocked — utterly unprepared for how she got the side of her hand up there. It was government-sanctioned sexual assault.

So she blogged about it and mentioned the TSA agent's name.  Which I will repeat here.  THEDALA MAGEE!  No, let me say it again:  THEDALA MAGEE!  THEDALA MAGEE!

Now, you may be asking, why am I so stuck on making sure THEDALA MAGEE's name in stated here?  Because labia-probing TSA agent THEDALA MAGEE and her shyster lawyer, VICKI ROBERTS, ESQ., are doing the old shakedown:

Your statements orally and in writing constitute slander and libel (defamation), and trade disparagement.  They also constitute tortuous infliction of emotional distress.

These outbursts on the Internet have subject [sic] my client to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, and have injured her in her reputation and her occupation.  Furthermore, as a reult of your actions, my client has suffered and continues to suffer damages including but not limited to severe emotional distress, fear, difficulties performing her duties, and other problems as a proximate cause of your tortuous actions.

And what will make THEDALA MAGEE (can you tell I want to be a Respondent in this case?) feel better?  Money, of course!

We are amenable to resolving this matter without the need for litigation.  In the regard, in addition to removing the offending statements and refraining from continued statements of the same or similar nature against my client, and a written apology, demand is herewith made for settlement purposes only and inadmissible under Evidence Code section 1152 in the sum of $500,000.

As an attorney, duly licensed in the State of California, the proper response to this is . . ."Pound sand."  And that's being nice.

Wow.  Even the Prop 65 shakedown attorneys - who would send threatening letters to small mom-and-pop businesses, saying they would sue on behalf of their disabled client because the door was not set to be 44 pounds of pressure to swing shut, being only 43.7 pounds - would not be so greedy and ask for several thousand dollars, enough to make a small business think, well, it would cost me more to hire an attorney to fight it.  But to not even file a complaint and demand half a million dollars?!  That's ballsy.  That's ruthless.  That's . . . a fucking scam.  Especially since in order to prevail, MICHELADA TAGEE . . . NO, WAIT . . . THELADA MAGEE would have to prove damages of that amount.

So Ms. Roberts believes that based upon her contentions of harm that lack foundation, and based upon the fact that her client hasn't even spent a dime to file a lawsuit, she wants Ms. Alkon to fork over $500,000?  And it all goes away . . .

Fat chance.  I guess Gloria Allred is no longer the only legal whore in town.  And Ms. Roberts should be acreful . . . because truth is an absolute defense.
UPDATED!  Ms. Alkon found herself a lawyer with a set of balls.  Read Marc Randazza's response to this shyster.