“When a population feels alienated from the legal system under which it lives, because that system fails to protect it from real dangers while lending succor and encouragement to every possible kind of wrongdoing, the population may well lose faith in the very idea of law. That is how civilization unravels.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Prison Porn http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_1_sndgs08.html (Winter 2003).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

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