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    'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
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    The punishment for dealing crack is hard, but for many people its a rational choice. Its that or poverty.
    "The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live" -Leo Tolstoy

    "Government is the shadow cast by business over society."
    John Dewey

    RIP Ian Tomlinson (victim of UK police brutality)

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