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...teens and had learned his law not at Howard but in prison libraries, where he researched appeals for himself and other inmates. Described as "the King of the Courtroom Fakers" by Ebony magazine, Morgan practiced for eight years in Chicago, until he was exposed. Sentencing Morgan to prison for contempt of court, the judge quipped that his name alone "was enough to drive the man to almost anything...
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the author betrays an unremitting contempt for black people throughout the book...
...true Nat Turner continuously prayed to his congregation, as witness the following quote from the original confessions: "Knowing the influence I had obtained over the minds of my fellow servants (not by means of conjuring and such like tricks--for to them I always spoke of such things with contempt), but by the communion of the Spirit whose revelations I often communicated to them and they believed and said my wisdom came from...
Thus for all the Israelis' contempt for the raiders, there is evidence that they are worried. Recently, Israel closed the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River to truck traffic, reversing its own policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers...
Kunstler calls himself a "people's lawyer," and in court he plays the part for all it is worth, occasionally risking contempt of court. Defending nine Catholic draft-record burners in Baltimore, Kunstler advised the jury to ignore the judge's charge to them. Protesting the high bail for another Catholic group charged with the same crime in Milwaukee, Kunstler attacked the judge: "I don't think Your Honor will make his career on the bench with heavy bail. It makes the law look ridiculous...