justice
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Good, the Work Force, and Big Lies
The calculus of the American work force is not what we are supposed to think. The meme constructed by the current administration is one of immigrant workers taking American jobs and American workers looking on in envy as their opportunities… Continue reading
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Good, Power and the Deceptive Immunity from Law
The idea that powerful people are exempt from the law and its consequences is as old an illusion as history itself is old. The end of WWII did not automatically deliver the Nuremberg trials. At the peak of WWII no… Continue reading
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Good and Punishment on ‘Suspicion of Crime’
In some slow not so subtle changes in our country’s sense of justice, to suspect one of a crime is becoming the new standard of punishment: no trial, no evidence, no justification; simply suspicion can trigger brutal or even capital… Continue reading
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Good and the Presumption of Guilt; Where art Thou Sweet Innocence?
The presumption of innocence is not a new concept with the US Constitution. The matter goes back in a formal legal sense at least as far as the Code of Hammurabi dating back in the ancient near east to at… Continue reading
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Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination
This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination. The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”. The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding… Continue reading
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Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp
Detention has become a euphemism for concentration. Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp. With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America. This is… Continue reading
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Good, Pope Francis and the Price of Caring
A lot will be written and said in the next few months about Pope Francis, his life, death, and work. In this writer’s less expansive world I was drawn to this man and his message simply because he seemed to… Continue reading