"Concepts of justice
must have hands and feet
or they remain sterile abstractions.
The hands and feet we need
are efficient means and methods
to carry out justice in every case
in the shortest possible time
and at the lowest possible cost."
by:
Justice Warren E. Burger
(1907-1995) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1969-1986)
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Knowing full well that Burger's concepts of justice requires a brutalizing army (local police to active military) to inflict his version of efficient means and methods in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost means the here referenced justice has nothing to do with natural law, fair, or that which is right.
 -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Even without knowing the context in which these words were spoken or written, Burger's yearning for the expediency of the guillotine seems evident. Such is an unfortunate attitude shared by too many of the Ruling Class. Ordinary prisoners in the world's #1 prison state are treated like animals because that's exactly what the rulers consider them to be. How ironic that theirs is the instinctual response of an animal, a vicious one at that, effectively cloaked by an empty guise of "justice."
     -- Mann, Kalamazoo     
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    Well said, Mann.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    huh?
     -- warren, olathe     
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    This individual's priorities are not aligned correctly. Concepts of justice must have heart. The heart of justice is to fully understand how we are a better and more resilient community as the justified action is being processed. We need time to fully internalize the meaning of the justified action and we can't afford a cheap flimsy dimestore justice.


     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    What are you talking about, Fred?  This quote is right out of the socialist's handbook?  You can't have socialism without lawyers and courts and offenders... that's why we need socialism, right?  You can't regulate all that you want to regulate without a 'justice system', right?  You're speaking out of both sides of your mouth (to put it politely).
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Mr. Archer, no, these formalities are of the conventional initiative. Socialism is the friendly bantering of rational concern. Well grounded down to earth human simplicity is the foundation for justice and adjudication. No, it your conventional insistence on conventional complications and the accompanying inequality that brings the high priced low life lawyers and the always unfair trails. Socialist believe in the redemptive qualities of humans and a agreed upon all participating correction process.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    I heartily disagree.  Sounds more like Christian aspirations than those of socialists.  Again, socialism is the great appropriator, now claiming the morality of the faithful while ignoring the source of life and intelligence. 

    Socialists seek to play god, but inevitably they become useful servants of the devil, leaving death and despair in their wake.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Mr Archer, your severe mental disorder won't allow you to admit that you need the police, the lawyers, the courts because your case would not hold up to a rational fair simple conversation. You need the armed and dangerous criminals elements of police and courts in a hope to wear down the messager by attrition or just plaine ole traditional murder. You are extremely sick Mr Archer. Your case of traditional violence can't stand up to reason, and that's all you are and all you have. Socialism is the challenge of socialized behavior to create.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mr Archer, it is you that insist on  an unfair advantage that produces the police, lawyers, and courts. If you distribute the wealth of the environment evenly you will have a harmony of the life process. You, Mr. Archer need crime like everyone I meet because you possess no fair mental processing attribute. The mentally healthy have a fair mental processing attribute and capability. Socialism is the challenge of socialized behavior to create fairness.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Correction: Your case for traditional violence can't stand up to reason, and violence Mr. Archer is all you are and all you have.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, your theocratic delusion, as set forth in your incoherent word salads are an exercise in the mentally ill's mind. You know, it is the police, lawyers and courts that enslave through evenly distributing your ex nihilo mental processing attributes.  Socialism challenges individual sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature's law. Socialism, through its many denominations, creates censorship, illogical dialogue, pain, suffering, poverty, anger, violence, death, war and all else that is contrary to the nobility of man.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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