Word: contempts
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...Kunstler and the Chicago Seven are far from alone in holding Judge Julius Hoffman's court in utter contempt. The fact of the defendants' guilt or innocence concerning the conspiracy charges is less important to me than the facts of the trial itself. It was a mockery of justice and should be condemned...
...seems a surprise to many that Judge Hoffman should impose sentence for contempt in court after the so-called freedoms of these young men were exercised. You can violate the law. This is everyone's freedom. However, when the time comes, and it eventually must, we must be held accountable...
...shouts and curses and laughter of the Panthers are tactics of confrontation that were developed in the street. As the Chicago Seven ably demonstrated, determined men can disrupt a trial at will. And many defendants' apparent disdain for punishment has rendered the traditional judicial fetters-contempt citations, gags and shackles-largely ineffective...
BUSINESS (1928): Within the last 50 years, business has been jockeyed, especially in America, into a defensive, suspicious, false tory position. Defensive, because business, the great innovator in all else, is popularly conceived of as opposing political innovation. Suspicious, because its distrust of politicians is exceeded only by its contempt for them. False, because a tory businessman is as unnatural as a liberal Dalai Lama. You often hear that silly remark that the least government is the best government-silly because, like the concept of anarchy, it is Utopian. It will come true in heaven, in which time and place...
Speaking of the contempt of court citations which he and the other defendants drew for using obscenities at the trial, Dellinger said, "It reflects the cultural bias of the country today that you can't refer in straight, simple language to one of the most desirable and wonderful human functions...