This Civil RICO Weapon

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  I should have known that, dammit, or at least
have stumbled on it.  Okay, back to work ...

--- Ed Martin <slothrop99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The original attorney for the damned was Clarence
> Darrow.  That was the title for a collection of his
> best closing arguments, with intro by Wm O Douglas,
> compiled by his biographer Arthur Weinberg.  
> 
> Darrow was counsel for the railroad against which
> Eugene V Debs was leading his American Railway Union
> on strike, thereby drawing on himself the full wrath
> of the gilded age legal system.  Darrow went to the
> CEO one day and told him that he thought Debs was
> right and he was switching sides and represent him. 
> 
> That started his career representing enemies of the
> state and the interests, which he continued for 40
> years.  He's nn enormously appealing figure for
> anybody interested in the history of the American
> preterite.


	
		
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