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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020

It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
 
- Thomas Jefferson, Draft Kentucky Resolutions [1798]

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June 17, 2020
Police Bigotry and the Drug War
To suggest that all cops and all judges are racial bigots would obviously be ridiculous. But it would be equally ridiculous to suggest that there are no racial bigots within law enforcement or even the judiciary. In fact, the DEA, the state police, and local law enforcement all serve as a magnet for racial bigots. There is a simple reason ...
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