William Henry Moody Quotes
…every single count which came to trial “hurt the company altogether out of proportion to any punishment”; it produced “a wave of indignation…from one end of the land to the other”.
Congressman Moody was very concerned by the Administration’s efforts to enforce anti-Trust policies. The penalties that existed in the law had been quite mild, usually small fines for large companies. Moody was not concerned about those. However, the public relations effect on the company was much more damaging than the criminal penalties and this is what the Congressman objected to.
William Henry Moody, 1853-1917, U. S. Congressman (Republican, MA), U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Letter to Henry L. Stimson, November 29, 1906
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It is hard to imagine what could be harsher. Some have called for his arrest and trial for crimes against humanity.
The “remarks” were complaints to the legal authorities that her husband had been just lynched. The language of AP describing the event of the late 19th century was all the more remarkable since Ms. Turner was 8 months pregnant. She was hung upside down, and while still alive her belly was slit open. When the baby fell out and started to cry, one of the Valdosta citizens crushed its head with his boot heel. Then they doused her with gasoline and burned her alive. The mob then fired hundreds of shots into Turner's body. This quotation shows how even the national Associated Press syndicate felt it had to report a lynching, torture, infanticide amd murder without any moral or ethical commentary as if they were reporting a drought or an auto accident. The domination of Jim Crowe attitudes in the South and even parts of the North surpressed serious journalism regarding lynchings until Ida Wells {624106} made the breakthrough.
A critical difference between English and American law is that truth is an absolute defense in the U. S. but is not in Great Britain. In the case of public figures, "the great," even truth is not required in U. S. law. It is not against American law to slander public figures as long as it is not malicious.
This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
In the digital technology era, the personal computer enabled tens of thousands of young people to become highly skillful at computer technology. Some of them tended to disagree with the government or protest areas of society using the technology to learn information of to communicate their ideas to the world. The government authorities did not have many people who were in the same technological class and very frequently authorities with virtually unlimited resources to protect government secrets or government facilities were embarrassed by being outsmarted by usually young people with little or no resources. When the authorities were embarrassed, they tended to arrest the “hacktivists” and charge them with very serious crimes—far greater or trumped up from no crime at all, in order to punish the hacktivists and discourage others.
William Henry Moody was an American politician and jurist who held positions in all three branches of the Government of the United States.
