Excellent article on how Portland, Oregon’s attempt to shut down free speech is awful and un-American: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2017/05/30/portlands-powderkeg-problem The U.S. Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights protect all types of speech–including anything some people label “hate speech.”
“What though your cause be baffled,—freemen cast In dungeons, dragged to death, or forced to flee,— Hope is not withered in affliction’s blast,— The patriot’s blood ’s the seed of Freedom’s tree.” —Thomas Campbell, Trocadero Stanzas, 1808. Sources: http://tinyurl.com/lfze48v http://tinyurl.com/create.php http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=35706 http://www.bartleby.com/270/6/169.html http://izquotes.com/quote/30562
An excellent little article on simplifying the legal system for non-lawyers. https://www.city-journal.org/html/simplifying-labyrinth-15136.html
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” —Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840-1841. Sources: http://tinyurl.com/mkfdmjw http://tinyurl.com/n8zyk72 http://tinyurl.com/l772sgu https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charlesdic165668.html http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37197-it-is-a-pleasant-world-we-live-in-sir-a
“The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.” –Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953. Sources: http://tinyurl.com/kwkhgfn https://blog.law.cornell.edu/blog/2008/06/28/our-favorite-quotes-raymond-chandler/ https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/raymondcha101546.html
CASE NAME and LINK: Commonwealth v. Jamie Baker, ___Mass. App. Ct.____, Appeals Court No. 16-P-783 (May 4, 2017). SUMMARY: The Massachusetts Appeals Court, in a unanimous 3-0 decision written by Associate Justice Granger, reversed the District Court’s granting of a suppression motion in a drunk driving (OUI) case. The District Court had suppressed evidence gathered via a sobriety checkpoint based on the fact that the “written operational plan” had not
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. March on, join bravely, let us to’t pell-mell If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.” —William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 5, Scene 3, lines 336-440. Sources: http://www.bartleby.com/70/3353.html http://shakespeare.mit.edu/richardiii/richardiii.5.3.html http://absoluteshakespeare.com/plays/richard_III/a5s3.htm
“Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.” —Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, 1969. Sources: http://tinyurl.com/mp4solj http://www.notable-quotes.com/b/bukowski_charles.html