3 John Leonard Quotes on Justice

John Leonard quotes on justice

16. Where did all the liberals go? If the gringos in their villas dream at all, it's of sugar-plum stock options. Never mind social justice, what happened to habeas corpus? Faith-based globocops police the words in our mouths and the behaviors in our bed while sorehead cable blabbercasters rant them on. Blood lust, wet dreams, collateral damage and extraordinary rendition; Halliburton and Abu Ghraib; an erotics of property, a theology of greed and a holy war on the poor, the old, the sick, the odd and the other - when oh when will the Tatzelwurm turn?

19. Prisons are a growth industry in a country that has stopped building schools because we would rather not pay our property taxes. And we seem remarkably comfortable with a criminal-justice system that locks up and 'disappears' people we fear or hold in contempt - with prisons as closets to hide our unmentionables and as factories for processing spare human parts until there is nothing left but waste.

27. When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things.