Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/07/06 16:33

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:15:23 GMT, Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:

>>In the 1850s juries exonerated Northerners who aided runaway slaves.

>Whereas 'PTravel' would have had them on the end of a rope...

The Fugitive Slave Act made it "illegal" to aid an escaped slave.


--

"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world."
--Clarence Darrow

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