A quotation from Thomas More

It seems to me a very unjust thing to take away a man’s life for a little money, for nothing in the world can be of equal value with a man’s life: and if it be said, “that it is not for the money that one suffers, but for his breaking the law,” I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion.
 
[Omnino mihi uidetur inquam pater benignissime homini uitam eripi propter ereptam pecuniam prorsus iniquum esse. Siquidem cum humana uita ne omnibus quidem fortunae possessionibus paria fieri posse arbitror. Quod si laesam iustitiam, si leges uiolatas, hac rependi poena dicant, haud pecuniam; quid ni merito summum illud ius, summa uocetur iniuria! Nam neque legum probanda sunt tam Manliana imperia, ut sicubi in leuissimis parum obtemperetur, illico stringant gladium; neque tam Stoica scita, ut omnia peccata adeo existiment paria, uti nihil iudicent interesse, occidatne aliquis hominem, an nummum ei surripiat, inter quae (si quicquam aequitas ualet) nihil omnino simile aut affine.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Burnet/Morley (1901)]

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This guy thinks he's above the law. He told a prosecutor to drop charges against a man who threatened a restaurant manager because they were enforcing the state's masking laws. He admitted to breaking finance rules by soliciting a fake primary opponent. He's being charged w 41 counts of interfering w Montana Supreme Court, may be punished in July by #Montana's Commission on Practice. Conservatives believe they're above the law.
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13 states have brought them in to teach, some have given continuing education credit for their seditionist sermons; group is active in 30 states. New name, old goals. Overturn elections, refuse to enforce civil rights laws, gun laws. Constitutional my ass; they want local fascist rule.
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Woah. Now ProPublica tells us that Crow bought the house Thomas' mother was living in, dumped money into it to fix it up for her, let her live there rent free, payed her property taxes for her... How is it that we're not moving now to impeach Clarence Thomas?
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