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Jeremy Paxman versus ‘crook’ Conrad Black (22Oct12) (via np)

  • when Black talks about 99.5% conviction rate in US he may be confusing USA with Japan
  • “the whole system fraudulent, fascistic conveyor belt of the corrupt prison system”
  • “priggish, gullible, British fool”
  • 5% of world population - Americans, 25% of the incarcerated people are and 50% of the lawyers are | it consumes 6% of the GDP (jackass interview)
  • “I place myself in the camp of Thoreau who said that in a society that routinely sends innocent people to prison, the place for innocents is prison.”

He’s on to something in the last statement. USA is a litigation society, founded by lawyers, for lawyers.

Conrad Black continues to be eminently quotable. Buy his book!

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