[lbo-talk] Framed (Was Everything's coming up roses)

R rhisiart at charter.net
Mon Jun 23 15:41:16 PDT 2003


in my not so humble opinion, the issue isn't so much who's guilty and who isn't but how many of the connected are never charged. and the emphasis on punishing the little guy while white collar crime is passed over.

ever met a cop who told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on the witness stand?

how are budget cuts in your state effecting the courts?

R

----- Original Message -----

From: Mike Ballard

To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org

Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:56 PM

Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Framed (Was Everything's coming up roses)

All the public defenders and criminal defense lawyers

(I am one) I know

agree that almost all their clients are guilty --

probably of the

things for which they were charged, or worse. jks

Kelley wrote:

As a public defender once

told me, "Most people that

end up in my office are poor; they're guilty of

something."

He grew up poor, Hispanic, in Texas. He became a PD

because he had ideals,once.

Kelley

*******************

Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> quoting Mark

Twain wrote:

"The lack of money is the root of all

evil."

---Mark Twain

Charles Dickens wrote:

>From the foldings of its robe, it brought two

children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous,

miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon

the outside of its garment.

"Oh, Man! look here. Look, look, down here!" exclaimed

the Ghost.

They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged,

scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their

humility. Where graceful youth should have filled

their features out, and touched them with its freshest

tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age,

had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into

shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils

lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no

degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade,

through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has

monsters half so horrible and dread.

Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to

him in this way, he tried to say they were fine

children, but the words choked themselves, rather than

be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

"Spirit! are they yours?" Scrooge could say no more.

"They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon

them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their

fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.

Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of

all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that

written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand

towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye! Admit

it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And

abide the end!"

"Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.

"Are there no prisons!" said the Spirit, turning on

him for the last time with his own words. "Are there

no workhouses?" The bell struck twelve.

Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost, and saw it

not. As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he

remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and

lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped

and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground,

towards him.

**************

F. Engels wrote in his 1886 intro to CAPITAL vol I:

The sighed for period of prosperity will not come; as

often as we seem to perceive its heralding symptoms,

so often do they again vanish into air. Meanwhile,

each succeeding winter brings up afresh the great

question, "what to do with the unemployed"; but while

the number of the unemployed keeps swelling from year

to year, there is nobody to answer that question; and

we can almost calculate the moment when the unemployed

losing patience will take their own fate into their

own hands.

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