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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
CS Lewis
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
Bartlet: "I get nervous around laws that fundamentally assume that Americans can't be trusted."
From Mandatory Minimums - West Wing episode 5/3/2000
"Whenever it is that they are saying: "Peace and security!" then sudden destruction is to be instantly upon them just as the pangs of distress upon a pregnant woman,; and they will by no means escape."
1 Thessalonians 5:3
"I think any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever the people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today."
Kurt Vonnegut from Hocus Pocus
"We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been."
Solon (594 B.C.)
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." ~Louis D. Brandeis
"Justice is incidental to law and order." ~J. Edgar Hoover
"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known." ~Charles Evans Hughes
"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?" ~Will Rogers
"Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics." ~Leighann Lord
"Truth is the first casualty of war." Ascribed to Sir Winston Churchill
"Between 1940 and 1980, the incarceration rate hovered in a range between 160 and 200 [inmates per 100,000 US population]. Then it took off [FORFEITURE LAWS AND VASTLY EXPANDED, MANDATORY-MINIMUM- SENTENCING DRUG LAWS, etc.], reaching 319 by 1985, 473 by 1990 and 519 last year [1993]. These are levels normally associated with POLICE STATES" (Newsday, 9/16/94). (It's now 1 inmate for every 140 population).
"According to a study at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, regular outpatient treatment costs an average of $1,800 per year; intensive outpatient treatment, $2,500 per year; opiate replacement treatment, $3,900 per year; short-term residential treatment, $4,400 per year; and long-term residential treatment, $6,800 per year. Incarceration costs an average of $25,900 per year."
"We must not blindly add to the body count and the terrible cost of the War on Drugs, only to learn from another Robert McNamara 30 years from now that what we've been doing is, 'wrong, terribly wrong.' " Walter Cronkite- 1995 Quoted from ReconsiDer.org
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