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6 months ago

Tagged: The Independent boing boing police suspicion

Dominic Lawson: If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened

People meekly accept official behaviour, even if they might strongly suspect it is the police who are behaving illegally

The Independent (via Boing Boing)

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11 months ago

Tagged: Learned Hand traitor suspicion distrust rumor gossip inquiry

“I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.”
— Learned Hand