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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>ever met a cop who
told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on the witness
stand?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>how are budget cuts
in your state effecting the courts?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au href="mailto:swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au">Mike
Ballard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 23, 2003 2:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Framed (Was
Everything's coming up roses)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>All the public defenders and criminal defense lawyers<BR>(I am
one) I know <BR>agree that almost all their clients are guilty --<BR>probably
of the <BR>things for which they were charged, or worse. jks<BR><BR>Kelley
wrote:<BR><BR>As a public defender once <BR>told me, "Most people that<BR>end
up in my office are poor; they're guilty of<BR>something."<BR><BR>He grew up
poor, Hispanic, in Texas. He became a PD<BR>because he had
ideals,once.<BR><BR><BR>Kelley <BR>*******************<BR>Mike Ballard <<A
href="mailto:swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au">swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au</A>>
quoting Mark<BR>Twain wrote:<BR><BR>"The lack of money is the root of
all<BR>evil."<BR><BR>---Mark Twain<BR><BR>Charles Dickens
wrote:<BR><BR>>From the foldings of its robe, it brought two<BR>children;
wretched, abject, frightful, hideous,<BR>miserable. They knelt down at its
feet, and clung upon<BR>the outside of its garment. <BR><BR>"Oh, Man! look
here. Look, look, down here!" exclaimed<BR>the Ghost. <BR><BR>They were a boy
and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged,<BR>scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too,
in their<BR>humility. Where graceful youth should have filled<BR>their
features out, and touched them with its freshest<BR>tints, a stale and
shrivelled hand, like that of age,<BR>had pinched, and twisted them, and
pulled them into<BR>shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned,
devils<BR>lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no<BR>degradation, no
perversion of humanity, in any grade,<BR>through all the mysteries of
wonderful creation, has<BR>monsters half so horrible and dread.
<BR><BR>Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to<BR>him in this
way, he tried to say they were fine<BR>children, but the words choked
themselves, rather than<BR>be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
<BR><BR>"Spirit! are they yours?" Scrooge could say no more. <BR><BR>"They are
Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon<BR>them. "And they cling to me,
appealing from their<BR>fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is
Want.<BR>Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of<BR>all beware
this boy, for on his brow I see that<BR>written which is Doom, unless the
writing be erased.<BR>Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its
hand<BR>towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye! Admit<BR>it for your
factious purposes, and make it worse. And<BR>abide the end!" <BR><BR>"Have
they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge. <BR><BR>"Are there no prisons!"
said the Spirit, turning on<BR>him for the last time with his own words. "Are
there<BR>no workhouses?" The bell struck twelve. <BR><BR>Scrooge looked about
him for the Ghost, and saw it<BR>not. As the last stroke ceased to vibrate,
he<BR>remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and<BR>lifting up his
eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped<BR>and hooded, coming, like a mist along
the ground,<BR>towards him.<BR>**************<BR><BR>F. Engels wrote in his
1886 intro to CAPITAL vol I:<BR><BR>The sighed for period of prosperity will
not come; as<BR>often as we seem to perceive its heralding symptoms,<BR>so
often do they again vanish into air. Meanwhile,<BR>each succeeding winter
brings up afresh the great<BR>question, "what to do with the unemployed"; but
while<BR>the number of the unemployed keeps swelling from year<BR>to year,
there is nobody to answer that question; and<BR>we can almost calculate the
moment when the unemployed<BR>losing patience will take their own fate into
their<BR>own hands.
<BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR>=====<BR>*****************************************************************<BR>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.<BR><BR><A
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