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My conclusion, from all of my extensive experience with the judicial system, is that you only have the rights that you can afford to pay an attorney to defend. That attorney used to say, “the law has nothing to do with justice, and justice has nothing to do with truth.” He
In any situation, your first objective is to avoid violent confrontation if it is at all possible.
Pride and ego put more souls in the ground and behind bars than any other factors.
Once you open that door to violence, anything from aggressive to homicidal can come out; you don’t get to choose which one and there's no putting it back in once it comes out.
we don’t get to choose how someone else responds to our assertiveness.
ANYTIME you engage in a confrontation you are opening the door to ultimately lethal violence.
Anyone who tells you a glorified story of what it will be like to drop some worthless criminal dead and how you should not give a shit about it clearly has not been touched by the life-changing damage of deadly bloodshed. Sometimes we learn the most not from the winners, but from the losers.
Many people talk about self-control, but not many discuss constructing the guidelines within which to control yourself.
Sometimes, that time with ourselves is much more important to our growth than the actual skill we are working on.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James A. Baldwin
