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...the laboring people found the prisons always open to receive them, but the courts of justice were practically closed to them; that the prosecuting officers vied with each other in hunting them down, but were deaf to their appeals...
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[Father of Miguel Garcia:] Nobody should be a policeman or a soldier. The laws are there to protect robbers.
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["Gustavo"] But just as it's always been in Mexico, the power is in the hands of a few, and justice is at the service of those who can buy it and nothing seems to change.
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[Anonymous Anarchist militant] To raid a bank was an episode of the social war.
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In the transition epoch, surely crimes will come. Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect Liberty to undo in a moment what Oppression has been doing for ages? Criminals are the crop of depots, as much a necessary expression of the evil in society as an ulcer is of disease in the blood; and so long as the taint of the poison remains, so long there will be crimes.
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Another function of the courts is to sit in judgment upon and determine the punishment of such of the poor as may have been "guilty" of disrespect for private property. Of course everybody now knows that rich offenders purchase this "justice," while poor offenders get it presented to them. Do the starving poor take food? They are sent to jail. Do they strike for more wages? They are clubbed, shot or imprisoned.
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It is possible to reason convincingly that the harm done to the economic order by violations of many of these regulatory laws is of a magnitude that dwarfs in significance the lower-class property offenses.
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Or when judges pass savage sentences on the poor trapped in the tangled nets of codes and absolve the gentlemen who can use their golden power to unpick their threads?
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Only the rich can get justice; only the poor cannot escape it.
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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
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...justice, a thing more precious than many pieces of gold...
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...it would be absurd and cruel to attempt under threat of a penalty to exact from a man what is and has always been beyond his powers...
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Katharine B. Davis was carefully trained in her youth for college; her college training helped and fortified her to become Police Matron of Bedford Reformatory for Women, and subsequently Commissioner of Corrections of New York. Both worthy offices to uphold the present system.
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : Capitalism -- Added.
April 04, 2020 : Capitalism -- Updated.
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