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Notes"I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else’s. I’m happy to respect authority when it’s genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I’m eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he’s worthy of it, but I don’t salute uniforms anymore."Edward Abbey (via haereticum)
(Source: poorlittlewitchgrrl-blog)
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Notes"Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others."Simone Weil (via haereticum)
(Source: poorlittlewitchgrrl-blog)
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Notes"The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of person and property, but dangers to its own contentment: for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, conspiracy to overthrow the government. Murder is pursued haphazardly unless the victim be a policeman, or Gott soll hüten, an assassinated Chief of State; failure to pay a private debt is, if anything, almost encouraged, but income tax evasion is punished with utmost severity; counterfeiting the State’s money is pursued far more relentlessly than forging private checks, etc. All this evidence demonstrates that the State is far more interested in preserving its own power than in defending the rights of private citizens." -
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Notes"The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. Production is the application of reason to the problem of survival … .
Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.
"Ayn Rand (Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)
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Notes"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."Robert G. Ingersoll (via haereticum)
(Source: poorlittlewitchgrrl-blog)
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Notes Prosecutorial Misconduct Is Rarely PunishedHow rare is it? Very:
A report issued Monday by the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law found that of the 707 cases between 1997 and 2009 in which courts explicitly determined that prosecutors had committed misconduct, only six prosecutors — 0.8 percent — were disciplined by the State Bar of California. Sixty-seven prosecutors committed misconduct more than once and some as many as five times. The majority of those prosecutors were never publicly disciplined, the project said.
In law school, we have the importance of legal ethics pounded into our heads. Unfortunately, we have a culture that treats misbehaving prosecutors with kid gloves, because assumedly we don’t want prosecutors to be afraid of going after criminals. But the rules are in place for a reason; they are there so innocent people don’t go to jail by accident. And the casualty of showing such grand leniency to prosecutors is that innocent people are incarcerated; which contradicts a rather ancient notion of anglo-American law: “it is better for ten guilty persons to escape than for one innocent to suffer.”
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