HAPPY FREEDOM DAY.
We're going to have 3 different things to read, and we're gonna vote on who wrote which of the 3 things!
HAPPY FREEDOM DAY = More than just waving a flag,
it means NOT being a craven excuse making political pathetic,
it means NOT being a $ell out to rich pig$ on top whose goal in life is to stay on top and stay pigs,
It does NOT mean happy happy dilettante tele tubby positive politics is the ONLY politics,
It means Grayson Democrats,
It means "I welcome their hatred" Democrats.
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A.)
"... You have shown by what you have accomplished that the law is enforced against the wealthiest corporation, and the richest and most powerful manager or manipulator of that corporation, just as resolutely and fearlessly as against the humblest citizen. The Department of Justice is now the Department of Justice, and justice is meted out with an even hand to great and small, rich and poor, weak and strong. Those who have denounced you and the action of the Department of Justice are either misled, or else are the very wrongdoers, and the agents of the wrongdoers, who have for so many years gone scot-free and flouted the laws with impunity. Above all, you are to be congratulated upon the bitterness felt and expressed towards you by the representatives of the great law-defying corporations of immense wealth, who, until within the last half dozen years, have treated themselves and have expected others to to treat them as being beyond and above all possible check from law.
It was time to say something, for the representatives of predatory wealth, of wealth accumulated on a giant scale by iniquity, by wrongdoing in many forms, by plain swindling, by oppressing wage-workers, by manipulating securities, by unfair and unwholesome competition and by stock-jobbing, - in short, by conduct abhorrent to every man of ordinary decent conscience, have during the last few months made it evident that they are banded together to work for a reaction, to endeavor to overthrow and discredit all who honestly administer the law, and to secure a return to the days when every unscrupulous wrongdoer could do what he wished, provided he had enough money. The attack you because they know your honesty and fearlessness and dread them. The enormous sums of money these men have at their control enable them to carry on an effective campaign. The find their tools in a portion of the public press, including especially certain of the great New York papers. They find their agents in some men in public life, - now and then occupying, or having occupied, positions as high as Senator and Governor, - in some men in the pulpit, and most melancholy of all, in a few men on the bench. By gifts to colleges and universities they are occasionally able to subsidize in their own interest some head of an educational body, ..."
B.)
"They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning; and since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage."
"...I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.
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Now, your Honour is to know that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dextrous lawyers who are grown old or lazy: and having been biased all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature or office.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formally made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly."
C.)
"The painful thing observable about all this business was the alacrity with which this oppressed community had turned their cruel hands agaisnt their own class in the interest of the common oppressor. This man and woman seemed to feel that in a quarrel between a person of their own class and his lord, is was the natural and proper thing for that poor devil's whose caste to side with the master and fight his battle for him, without ever stopping to inquire into the rights or wrongs of the matter. This man had been out helping to hang his neighbors, and had done his work with zeal, and yet was aware that there was nothing against them but a mere suspicion, with nothing back of it describable as evidence, still neither he nor his wife seemed to see anything horrible about it."