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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."
"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."
"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war."
"American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure."
"President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied."
"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."
"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating."
"We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war."
"If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information."
"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks."
"Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation."
"This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law."
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