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
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
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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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The unreal unity proclaimed by the spectacle masks the class division underlying the real unity of the capitalist mode of production. What obliges the producers to participate in the construction of the world is also what excludes them from it. What brings people into relation with each other by liberating them from their local and national limitations is also what keeps them apart. What requires increased rationality is also what nourishes the irrationality of hierarchical exploitation and repression. What produces society's abstract power also produces its concrete lack of freedom.
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