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“Sometimes the law is about as useful as tits on a bull. Good people end up hurt.”

— Joanna Schaffhausen, The Vanishing Season, Share via Whatsapp

“Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans.”

— Joanna Schaffhausen, Share via Whatsapp

“Once you have realized that law enforcement are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should recognize that making a emergency phone call is a hazardous activity to engage in.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“Once you have realized that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should recognize that making a future whistle-blower report is a futile activity to engage in.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“Police Internal Affairs departments are so corrupt that you cannot believe anything that they say.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“Internal Affairs seems to be making complaints from the general public about law enforcement officers completely disappear from their records.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“The most dishonest group of people that I have met in life are working in law enforcement.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“Resist the corruption.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“I research what law enforcement departments do not want researched.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is largely an interrogation agency for whistle-blowers that extracts their full range of knowledge without upholding their legal rights.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“Approaching a police car is a very dangerous activity to engage in.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“It may be said at once that it any case no blame whatever attaches to the persons responsible for the framing of these charges, who are placed in a most difficult position by the appellant s unfortunate act. It is a principle of the English law that a person who appears in a police court has done something undesirable, and citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offenses, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable. Is It a Free Country?”

— A.P. Herbert, Uncommon Law: Being 66 Misleading Cases Revised and Collected in One Volume, Share via Whatsapp

“Law, being a practical thing, must found itself on actual forces. It is quite enough, therefore, for the law, that man, by an instinct which he shares with the domestic dog, and of which the seal gives a most striking example, will not allow himself to be dispossessed, either by force or fraud, of what he olds, without trying to get it back again. Philosophy may find a hundred reasons to justify the instinct, but it would be totally immaterial if it should condemn it and bid us surrender without a murmur.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law, Share via Whatsapp

“To see triumph the nullities, see prosper the dishonor, see grow the injustice, to see agglomerate powers in the hands of the wicked, the man comes to discourage the virtue, laughing at the honor, ashamed to be honest.”

— Rui Barbosa, Share via Whatsapp

“The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role is when he must take the power of the despots, presenting before the courts the supreme character of free peoples.”

— Rui Barbosa, Share via Whatsapp

“It is unfortunate that calling 911 may result in an incompetent or corrupt police officer being sent to you.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less people will cooperate with them.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp