From: chen@intuit.com (Mark Chen)
To: TOMJEFFERSON@delphi.com
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Raw Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 12:01:01 PDT
From: chen@intuit.com (Mark Chen)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 12:01:01 PDT
To: TOMJEFFERSON@delphi.com
Subject: Re: Scienter and all that stuff
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> The facts and the law only matter when the government doesn't have
> a hard on for you. If the government wants to get you [and, perhaps,
> if you're not a millionaire "sports figure"] it will get you. The
> crime bill just makes the task a bit easier.
This is quite accurate. Howard Zinn makes the same point in
_Declarations of Independence_. He describes an incident during the
'60s when a group of black civil rights demonstrators approached him
and asked if they would be within their legal rights conducting a
demonstration on a public street. Zinn responded that they would be,
but that their legal rights were irrelevant; the police would arrest
them anyway. After citing a number of such examples, he concludes
that law is made not by legislators and judges, but by the policman's
club.
- Mark -
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