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  1. blank Kim Chul Soo says:

    So our pitiful court system finally got one right.

  2. blank Randje K Randje says:

    It is not the system that is to be pitied, but the bees. Take heart! Monsanto is going down the tubes. McDonald’s is ailing. People are waking up! Bernie Sanders is in the bullpen. FEEL THE BERN

  3. One step forward, two steps back. And that’s how ya do the Corporate Rag. I tire of this silly game. 😐

    ”Abstract justice is, of course, impossible. Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation. As competition sharpens . . . religious ritual is supplanted by civil codes for the enforcement of contracts and the protection of the creditor class. The more society consolidates, the more legislation is controlled by the wealthy, and at length the representatives of the moneyed class acquire that absolute power once wielded by the Roman proconsul, and now exercised by the modern magistrate.

    ”Thus the modern legal system is infinitely subtle, and its enforcing officers equally efficient, in punishing those forms of theft which are not practiced by the ruling class; but robbery in the market-place is governed by primitive controls which lag far behind the sophisticated mechanisms which company lawyers contrive to circumvent them. One measure of a society is the problems it chooses to solve. Rome’s ruling class was unable to restrain its rapacity, even in its own ultimate interest. Adams saw what liberals are rarely willing to admit—namely, that a system based on corrupt practice cannot be saved merely by tinkering with it.”

    ‘The Economics of Human Energy’ in Brooks Adams, Ezra Pound, and Robert Theobald – by John Whiting, London University

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