Dennis Lynch, the attorney representing Sgt. Peter Damon in the $85 million lawsuit against Michael Moore, has a long track record in far-right-wing causes. It would not be surprising to learn that these threads run deeper. We're to believe that Lynch met Damon at a St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC in 2004...
First off, Lynch, a Nyack, New York attorney with the firm of Dorfman, Lynch & Knoebel, previously represented Sgt. Damon in a suit against Fortis Benefits Insurance Company and won a $72,500 settlement late last year (where no links are available, the following excerpts were found via Lexis-Nexis):
Daily News (New York)
December 7, 2005
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 32
LENGTH: 384 words
HEADLINE: G.I.'S BATTLE WITH INSURER
BYLINE: BY CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
BODY:
SGT. PETER DAMON sacrificed his right arm and left hand for his country, but when he tried to collect on his insurance policy that didn't seem to matter. With the help of a New York lawyer, the 33-year-old former National Guardsman fought the insurer and won a $72,500 settlement. But he's outraged it took a legal battle. "Before I even had the terms of my insurance, I was paying for it," Damon said. "They send you the fine print later. I didn't know anything about any 'war exclusion.' " Damon was referring to a provision that allows insurers to deny a claim if an injury is the result of an "act of war."
"I didn't get shot, I was fixing a helicopter in Iraq when my arms were blown off," he said.
Damon, who lives in Middleboro, Mass., with his wife and two kids, said his local bank sent him an insurance policy application before he shipped out in spring 2003.
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That November, Damon and another soldier were tuning up a Blackhawk chopper when a tire they were inflating exploded. When Damon came to, his arms were gone and Pfc. Paul Bueche was dead. Damon said he was recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and worrying about the future when he remembered he had insurance.
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Months went by and Damon said he started getting the runaround. Then in July 2004, the rejection letter arrived. "I was p-----," Damon said.
So Damon called lawyer Dennis Lynch of South Nyack, whom he met last year at New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade. "How could anybody not be moved by his story?" said Lynch, who took the case pro bono. "A large corporation, in my opinion, was taking advantage of him."
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"I wouldn't be surprised if this happened to other soldiers," Lynch said.Jim Sykes, a spokesman for the Fortis Benefits Insurance Company, now known as Assurant Solutions, stood by the decision to deny benefits. "We believe we were correct," he said, but "on this case we decided not to appeal . . . and we will pay the claim."
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Dennis Lynch is also Chief-of-Staff for Your Catholic Voice Movement, where he doesn't hesitate to make known his feelings about gays and women's reproductive rights:
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=374Ted Kennedy and My Friend, Larry in the Public Square
9/26/2003
By Dennis Lynch
Chief-of-Staff
Your Catholic Voice Movement
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We all know Ted Kennedy is the Catholic poster boy for The New York Times. Ted expressly supports killing innocent preborn children while the media relishes in referring to him as “Catholic”. Likewise with Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Kerry and now even Wesley K. Clark. All of these “Catholics” reject universal Catholic doctrine that abortion is intrinsically evil. All these Catholics in the public square defy the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ position on the sanctity of human life….not to mention Catholic Dogma. <snip-END>
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=19 A September 11th Hijacking
6/26/2002
By Dennis Lynch
Victims of the September 11th Hijackers were not just people. One victim of the September 11th hijackers was the truth about a Catholic Priest. This is the story how homosexual activists hijacked the truth about Father Mychal Judge.<snip>
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In addition, Lynch has been a steady contributor to Christopher H. Smith (R, NJ-04), a right-wing opponent of women's reproductive rights:
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Nyack&st=NY&last=lynch&first=dennishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(US_politician)
Christopher Henry Smith (born March 4, 1953 in Rahway, New Jersey) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the 4th District of New Jersey.
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On abortion, Smith has worked to stop abortions in military hospitals. He has also worked to reinstate the Reagan-era restrictions that would deny federal funds to family planning organizations that promote abortions abroad. The ensuing struggle lasted more than two years, with Smith leveraging his opposition to the family planning money to prevent passage of the Clinton administration's high-priority efforts to reorganize the State Department, pay U.S. dues to the United Nations and provide $18 billion for the International Monetary Fund. Smith finally was forced to yield in 1998 and 1999 omnibus spending bills, but he won in return White House agreement to restrict support for international abortion advocacy--which angered some Clinton loyalists. George W. Bush restored the family-planning restrictions in an executive order in his first full day in office. Smith also was a prime mover of legislation to ban partial-birth abortions; the House voted to override Clinton's vetoes, but Smith's side fell a few votes short of the two-thirds needed in the Senate.
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Lynch also has served as chairman of the Catholic Alliance, an entity conceived as a branch of the Christian Coalition:
The New York Times
March 13, 1999, Saturday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 7; Column 2; National Desk
LENGTH: 516 words
HEADLINE: Ray Flynn to Head Catholic Group With Conservative Roots
BYLINE: By GUSTAV NIEBUHR
BODY:
Raymond L. Flynn, former Mayor of Boston and later Ambassador to the Vatican, said yesterday that he would become head of a national Roman Catholic political organization that was founded as a branch of the conservative Christian Coalition.
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Mr. Flynn said that under his leadership, which takes effect next Wednesday, the organization would encourage political participation and provide a voice for Catholics, especially "blue-collar, working-class" Catholics. "Our focus will be on solidarity with the poor, the needy and the immigrants," he said, adding that the organization would also continue to oppose abortion, particularly the late-term procedure that foes call partial-birth abortion.
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Despite the publicity surrounding its start, the Catholic Alliance has been a low-profile group, both before and after it became independent in 1997. That year Keith Fournier became its president, after having been head of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative religious-liberty law firm founded by Pat Robertson, who created the Christian Coalition. Mr. Fournier recently stepped down as the Catholic Alliance's president.
Dennis Lynch, a New York lawyer who became the organization's chairman about a month ago, said that it had recently added new board members and that its goal would be "to inform and encourage Catholics to participate in local, state and national affairs." Mr. Lynch said it would not endorse political candidates but would create an Internet site where candidates' positions could be compared with Catholic teaching on social issues. 
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