Fear and Doubt

The traditional Anglo-Saxon concept of law (founded on the latent principle that three haves must always be protected from the have-nots)…Every time I hear the word “law” I visualize gangs of militiamen or Pinkertons busting strikes, pigs wearing sheets and caps that fit over their pointing heads. I see a white oak and a barefooted black hanging, or snake eyes peeping down the lenses of telescopic rifles, or conspiracy trials”

“I don’t think anything that ever happened in Italy, Spain, Germany or any other capitalist states can match the centralizing process that the US went through in the last hundred years. Even the so-called public utilities (AT&T, The Santa Fe, The Pennsylvania RR, Western Union) are owned by financial institutions that, on examination, always turn out to be controlled by a few families who are defendants of the industrial expansionists of 1865-95”