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Owned by Unordained - Created on 08/15/2005 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice11/01/05 :: Folder :: Laugh, it's funny 11/23/05 :: Quote :: Henry David ThoreauAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. 06/10/05 :: Quote :: Abraham LincolnThe best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.  10/17/03 :: Quote :: CLikiCLiki pages can be edited by anyone at any time. Imagine a fearsomely comprehensive disclaimer of liability. Now fear, comprehensively
10/08/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think.  09/27/03 :: Quote :: Strong BadThere are no two people who are not on fire.  09/25/06 :: Image :: HIPAA quiz :: 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Scott AdamsNormal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.  08/09/17 :: Quote :: UnknownSome asshole just farted in my pants. 08/09/17 :: Quote :: Terry Pratchett (not verbatim)Build a man a fire--he'll be warm a night
Set a man on fire--he'll be warm for life 06/19/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Grocery Store Wars - Join the Organic Rebellion05/03/05 :: Article :: Double-quotes for emphasis :: Who the hell thought this was a good idea?04/14/07 :: Quote :: Ernest HemingwayHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. 03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? :: 01/02/04 :: Quote :: Dennis MillerLiberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.  11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage10/06/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: L0rdZ pR4y3r10/03/03 :: Quote :: Woody AllenTo you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition. 09/09/03 :: Quote :: MontesquieuSometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Lyndon JohnsonYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mark TwainFamiliarity breeds contempt -- and children. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Jean-Paul SartreWhen the rich make war it's the poor who die. 08/31/04 :: Quote :: insignisThis Earth has less than 10% of its total space remaining. Would you like Windows to run Earth cleanup now? 08/31/04 :: Quote :: ZarthragEarth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can. 08/29/08 :: Quote :: Harry S TrumanWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 07/28/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Outrageous Christianity06/16/05 :: Quote :: Dale HancheyWe embrace this idea with an enthusiasm born of desperation. 06/07/05 :: Article :: Scalia on Constitutional Interpretation :: The living Constitution be damned05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. 04/18/04 :: Quote :: Henry Stimson (Secretary of State)... gentlemen do not read each other's mail. 04/16/07 :: Quote :: Napoleon BonaparteNever interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. 02/27/08 :: Quote :: DaveOh, that's my problem: I inform people against their will! 02/11/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Handy Latin Phrases01/30/05 :: Quote :: Chuang-tzuAll men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. 01/21/05 :: Quote :: Dale HancheyIf you haven't tested it, it doesn't work. 01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot) 12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Guerrilla News Network11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: [proprietary title of article satirizing the gay-marriage issue at the state level, removed]10/19/03 :: Quote :: Winston ChurchillI am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. 10/03/05 :: Quote :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
09/30/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed. 09/29/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Millet system of law09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: John F. KennedyMankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Stalin (disputed?)A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. 08/27/05 :: Quote :: Mark TwainIf it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary. 06/09/05 :: Quote :: [unspecified]The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us
is right. 05/20/04 :: Article :: Holding back :: Laws are only for the lawful?05/11/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The rest of the abuse photo cartoons05/07/04 :: Article :: Beware the demonizers :: How to spot crap on sight04/07/04 :: Quote :: Mark TwainIf you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause, and reflect.
[Ed. Note: you should likely reflect, regardless, but this is funnier.] 03/15/05 :: Quote :: Oscar AmeringerPolitics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. 03/11/04 :: Quote :: George ChapmanWho to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. 01/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Butt Seks for Jesus01/09/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: How to deconstruct almost anything 12/15/08 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. 10/21/07 :: Quote :: A. SpammerI think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...] 10/02/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.
09/30/04 :: Article :: What do you want to do when you grow up? :: Legislating intent just seems like such a bad idea.09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 09/16/03 :: Quote :: GandalfMany that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
09/13/06 :: Article :: Misterr Dabaar :: The story of how we met (invented) Mrr. Dabaar08/29/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Why Can't We See God - A scientific explanation08/19/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)08/19/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Cops Against the Drug War08/09/06 :: Article :: The Decameron :: Putting the Devil in Hell. Is that what they call it these days?07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 03/15/07 :: Quote :: O'RourkeWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. 02/11/05 :: Quote :: Bjarne StroustrupCuriously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not.
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