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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

Roberts, Paul Craig, Stratton, Lawrence M.

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A former government official and a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, he is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and a columnist for Investor's Business Daily.
Lawrence M. Stratton is the Robert Krieble Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy and a member of the bar in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He has taught law at Georgetown University.

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Title of ebook: The Tyranny of Good Intentions
ISBN: 9780307410153
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 358 kb
Released online for download: 03-25-2008
Author of eBook: Roberts, Paul Craig
Author of eBook: Stratton, Lawrence M.

The Tyranny of Good Intentions

How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
chapter one

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THE LAW AS SHIELD:

THE RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN

Four years into the “devil’s decade” of the 1930s, a period of high unemployment, a series of articles in the London Times on depressed regions within England pierced the British conscience. Among the “Places without a Future” were the once prosperous coal fields of Durham in northeast England, which had a 37 percent unemployment rate.

County Durham wasn’t a pretty picture. Herbert Pike Pease Daryngton, a member of the British House of Lords, wrote a letter to the Times saying that “your articles on ‘Desolate Durham’ are moving beyond words.” Indeed they were. The coal pits, which had supported densely populated villages in which miners lived with their families in small row houses, were closed, leaving the inhabitants of entire precincts unemployed. A miner’s weekly dole payment was the only thing standing between his family and starvation.

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