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...system he is fighting, in his view, is "corrupt to its core." While his book is primarily an entertaining gloss of his most intriguing legal battles, Dershowitz lays out his case against criminal justice in a furious ten-page introduction. The system is "built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth," he claims. Even respected members of the profession are part of what he labels the "cheat elite," who doctor facts to produce the results they want. They include not only police and prosecutors, he says, but defense attorneys and judges as well...
...only the killers and cretins among us have loved war. Hegel recommended it. He thought it kept the state from getting stagnant and corrupt. Bacon thought that a just and honorable war was the best "exercise" for a state, like jogging...
...vigorous pursuit and prosecution of political corruption, much like the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Abscam effort. This of course is a largely symbolic move, unlikely to change the overall crime rate, but symbols can have tremendous importance, especially in politics Liberal solutions to most problems, not just crime, will demand that the government, instead of the so called free market, confront the problems of society. And these efforts will meet a dubious reception if the people of this country think the makers of these policies are corrupt...
Their buckaroo journalism is better at exposing a corrupt county commissioner than at exploring the consequences of a commission's zoning plans. Only belatedly have the papers seen the ecological risks of overdevelopment, and the failing has been greatest in such boom towns as Orlando and Fort Myers. Further, the all-out coverage after eruptions like the Miami riots does not make up for a lack of reporting about tensions as they build...
...government of President Shehu Shagari has belatedly taken some steps to curb spending and slow the runaway growth of the corrupt and bloated Nigerian bureaucracy. The Shagari government in December proposed a 12% cutback in government spending from 1981 levels. Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls...