Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes th…

Frederic Bastiat
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal. ✨ Frederic Bastiat (2006). The Law, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal. ✨ Frederic Bastiat (2006). The Law, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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