Author: Yinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631353446
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” – Charles Dickens The legal trade is a very broad church (too broad) that admits geniuses and intellectual peasants alike. Parts of the legal trade seem to be illogical and a baseless (unscientific) SCAM! The bottom lawyers have sunk below the lowest basement level – just below the deepest sewers – while the top lawyers seem to have descended to the bottom from whence the previous bottom lawyers vacated. There is change, but there is no relative change, since top lawyers seem oblivious to the notion of relativity. Although the brightest students in law school did a lot of math and physics, they delude themselves that it is their birthright to be top lawyers, when in fact, they are in a state of flux based entirely on the notion of relativity. They are simply the new bottom lawyers. Almighty God is a lawyer (judge), but He is a scientist first, because He had to create those that He will judge. “In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.” – Dr Stephen Hawking Dr Hawking implies that as lawyers (not all) are less likely to have done a lot of logical reasoning enhancing mathematics and physics at school, they are likelier to be imbeciles.
Rise and Rise of Imbecile Lawyers
Author: Yinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631353446
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” – Charles Dickens The legal trade is a very broad church (too broad) that admits geniuses and intellectual peasants alike. Parts of the legal trade seem to be illogical and a baseless (unscientific) SCAM! The bottom lawyers have sunk below the lowest basement level – just below the deepest sewers – while the top lawyers seem to have descended to the bottom from whence the previous bottom lawyers vacated. There is change, but there is no relative change, since top lawyers seem oblivious to the notion of relativity. Although the brightest students in law school did a lot of math and physics, they delude themselves that it is their birthright to be top lawyers, when in fact, they are in a state of flux based entirely on the notion of relativity. They are simply the new bottom lawyers. Almighty God is a lawyer (judge), but He is a scientist first, because He had to create those that He will judge. “In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.” – Dr Stephen Hawking Dr Hawking implies that as lawyers (not all) are less likely to have done a lot of logical reasoning enhancing mathematics and physics at school, they are likelier to be imbeciles.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631353446
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” – Charles Dickens The legal trade is a very broad church (too broad) that admits geniuses and intellectual peasants alike. Parts of the legal trade seem to be illogical and a baseless (unscientific) SCAM! The bottom lawyers have sunk below the lowest basement level – just below the deepest sewers – while the top lawyers seem to have descended to the bottom from whence the previous bottom lawyers vacated. There is change, but there is no relative change, since top lawyers seem oblivious to the notion of relativity. Although the brightest students in law school did a lot of math and physics, they delude themselves that it is their birthright to be top lawyers, when in fact, they are in a state of flux based entirely on the notion of relativity. They are simply the new bottom lawyers. Almighty God is a lawyer (judge), but He is a scientist first, because He had to create those that He will judge. “In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.” – Dr Stephen Hawking Dr Hawking implies that as lawyers (not all) are less likely to have done a lot of logical reasoning enhancing mathematics and physics at school, they are likelier to be imbeciles.
The Judge Lied
Author: Yinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631353454
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Judge Lied: True Story “Someone must be trusted, let it be the judges.” –Lord Denning “Transparent, equality, and EXACT laws.” – President Thomas Jefferson In recent years, there has been a rising crescendo of complaint over the legitimacy – sometimes even the honesty – of particular judicial conduct. From political conservatives come charges that judges are overriding the will of the people as expressed in statute and referenda relating to abortions, gay rights, affirmative action, religion, and other subjects. From political liberals come charges of bias against women, sexual misconduct, harshness towards the interest of minorities, and forced imposition of deeply conservative political views. From both sides come charges of overriding the people’s views and protecting the professional politicians by striking down term limits. From all venues, even high-priced corporate lawyers, comes tyrannical and arbitrary conduct by trial judges. Misuse of position and even bribery are known to have sometimes existed. Beyond these matters, one dean of a law school’s thirty-four years as a law professor and litigator persuaded him that there is yet another problem, one that is widespread. It is that judges too often are unwilling to listen to facts or reasons. They start with predilections heavily favouring one side; predilections, which they, of course, deny, and then prove impervious to facts and resulting reasons contrary to their bias. When judges act on the basis of their prior predilection, ignore facts, and even make up supposed counter facts, they destroy a central tenet of the judicial system: the decision of cases based upon facts rather than prejudice. They also destroy faith in the judicial system.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631353454
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Judge Lied: True Story “Someone must be trusted, let it be the judges.” –Lord Denning “Transparent, equality, and EXACT laws.” – President Thomas Jefferson In recent years, there has been a rising crescendo of complaint over the legitimacy – sometimes even the honesty – of particular judicial conduct. From political conservatives come charges that judges are overriding the will of the people as expressed in statute and referenda relating to abortions, gay rights, affirmative action, religion, and other subjects. From political liberals come charges of bias against women, sexual misconduct, harshness towards the interest of minorities, and forced imposition of deeply conservative political views. From both sides come charges of overriding the people’s views and protecting the professional politicians by striking down term limits. From all venues, even high-priced corporate lawyers, comes tyrannical and arbitrary conduct by trial judges. Misuse of position and even bribery are known to have sometimes existed. Beyond these matters, one dean of a law school’s thirty-four years as a law professor and litigator persuaded him that there is yet another problem, one that is widespread. It is that judges too often are unwilling to listen to facts or reasons. They start with predilections heavily favouring one side; predilections, which they, of course, deny, and then prove impervious to facts and resulting reasons contrary to their bias. When judges act on the basis of their prior predilection, ignore facts, and even make up supposed counter facts, they destroy a central tenet of the judicial system: the decision of cases based upon facts rather than prejudice. They also destroy faith in the judicial system.
Helen Falcon (Community Dentist)
Author: Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631354639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu says, “I am a Negro general dental practitioner, the first and only one in Wellingborough and Bedford, England. England is one of the least literate countries in the industrialised world. A self-educated Negro seemed a threat to those who might have been brought up to believe that the brain is in the skin. Helen Falcon, Kevin Atkinson, George Rothnie, Geraint Evans, all Caucasians, and Resh Diu, Indian, the next door surgery, all told unrelenting, Negrophobic lies on record and/or under oath. There was a catalogue of mediocrity and confusions that seemed complicated by prior predilection and innate racial hatred. They were dishonest and reckless, and allowed prior predilection and prejudice to becloud their objective reasoning and judgment. They immortalised mediocrity, confusion, and dishonesty on record.”
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631354639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu says, “I am a Negro general dental practitioner, the first and only one in Wellingborough and Bedford, England. England is one of the least literate countries in the industrialised world. A self-educated Negro seemed a threat to those who might have been brought up to believe that the brain is in the skin. Helen Falcon, Kevin Atkinson, George Rothnie, Geraint Evans, all Caucasians, and Resh Diu, Indian, the next door surgery, all told unrelenting, Negrophobic lies on record and/or under oath. There was a catalogue of mediocrity and confusions that seemed complicated by prior predilection and innate racial hatred. They were dishonest and reckless, and allowed prior predilection and prejudice to becloud their objective reasoning and judgment. They immortalised mediocrity, confusion, and dishonesty on record.”
Mediocre Great England
Author: Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631354612
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
“He (Briton) is a barbarian, and believes that the customs of his tribe and Island are the laws of nature.” – George Bernard Shaw “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Sir Winston Churchill Corroborating the words of George Bernard Shaw, Sir Winston Churchill implied that the average Briton was indeed a moron. Also supporting Churchill’s observation is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which found that young adults in England are amongst the least literate and numerate in the industrialised world. Mediocre Great England, the latest book by Yinka Bamgbelu, criticizes the legal system in Britain as well as the racism found in its institutions. “The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.” – Plato “Lies are told in criminal cases. Lies are told in civil cases. Lies are told all the time.” – Sir Michael Havers, Attorney General, 1980 “I don’t think anyone will dispute that lots and lots of people are denied justice.” – Sir David Napley The entire book is a letter to Dr Anand Kamath, a 42-year-old dentist who was seemingly and mercilessly hounded to death by white-collar racist thugs. Dr Stephanie Twidale, another dentist, could not spell and could not write legibly, unrelentingly lied under oath. What is the value of an illegible record by a dishonest, semi-illiterate expert? Any legal system, Third World included, which tolerates dishonesty under oath is intellectually flawed and unsafe. Competent administration of the law is an inviolable fundamental right. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” – Plato
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631354612
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
“He (Briton) is a barbarian, and believes that the customs of his tribe and Island are the laws of nature.” – George Bernard Shaw “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Sir Winston Churchill Corroborating the words of George Bernard Shaw, Sir Winston Churchill implied that the average Briton was indeed a moron. Also supporting Churchill’s observation is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which found that young adults in England are amongst the least literate and numerate in the industrialised world. Mediocre Great England, the latest book by Yinka Bamgbelu, criticizes the legal system in Britain as well as the racism found in its institutions. “The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.” – Plato “Lies are told in criminal cases. Lies are told in civil cases. Lies are told all the time.” – Sir Michael Havers, Attorney General, 1980 “I don’t think anyone will dispute that lots and lots of people are denied justice.” – Sir David Napley The entire book is a letter to Dr Anand Kamath, a 42-year-old dentist who was seemingly and mercilessly hounded to death by white-collar racist thugs. Dr Stephanie Twidale, another dentist, could not spell and could not write legibly, unrelentingly lied under oath. What is the value of an illegible record by a dishonest, semi-illiterate expert? Any legal system, Third World included, which tolerates dishonesty under oath is intellectually flawed and unsafe. Competent administration of the law is an inviolable fundamental right. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” – Plato
Racist Satanic Network Dear SUE GREGORY (OBE)
Author: Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681813750
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
SUE GREGORY, community dentist and empress of privileged dullards, was dishonest and/or confused when in a correspondence of November 30, 2006, she stated: “Dear Stephanie, just to confirm that I have spoken with Richard Hill and he will join you for the DR’S visit on Thursday 22nd February to Mr Bamgbelu’s Bedford Practice, commencing at 9 a.m. We will endeavour to share any issues that the PCT may have with you PRIOR to the 22nd. Kind regards, Sue.” Unbeknownst to the first ever and only Negro dentist in Bedford, on November 30, 2006 – the recklessly created reports of 22 July 2004 and the follow-up of an undisclosed date – were live, valid, and accessible. The reports were abruptly withdrawn by the racist, satanic network more than four years later, on October 16, 2008. SUE GREGORY implicitly instructed Richard Hill to state as follows: “I, RICHARD HILL, c/o Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust, Gilbert Hitchcock House, 21 Kimbolton Road, Bedford, MK40 2AW, WILL SAY AS FOLLOWS: I make this statement supplemental to my statement dated 23.09.2008. I attach as Exhibit SRWH1 a copy of my report dated 22.07.2004, I attach a synopsis of practice visits that makes reference to a practice visit to MR BAMGBELU’s practice at 52 Bromham Road, Bedford, MK40 2QG in July 2004. The document is incorrect in recording that the inspection took place in 2004. No such inspection in fact took place.” According to the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), England’s young adults are amongst the least literate in the industrialised world. Racism is likelier when there’s a decline in educational standards.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681813750
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
SUE GREGORY, community dentist and empress of privileged dullards, was dishonest and/or confused when in a correspondence of November 30, 2006, she stated: “Dear Stephanie, just to confirm that I have spoken with Richard Hill and he will join you for the DR’S visit on Thursday 22nd February to Mr Bamgbelu’s Bedford Practice, commencing at 9 a.m. We will endeavour to share any issues that the PCT may have with you PRIOR to the 22nd. Kind regards, Sue.” Unbeknownst to the first ever and only Negro dentist in Bedford, on November 30, 2006 – the recklessly created reports of 22 July 2004 and the follow-up of an undisclosed date – were live, valid, and accessible. The reports were abruptly withdrawn by the racist, satanic network more than four years later, on October 16, 2008. SUE GREGORY implicitly instructed Richard Hill to state as follows: “I, RICHARD HILL, c/o Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust, Gilbert Hitchcock House, 21 Kimbolton Road, Bedford, MK40 2AW, WILL SAY AS FOLLOWS: I make this statement supplemental to my statement dated 23.09.2008. I attach as Exhibit SRWH1 a copy of my report dated 22.07.2004, I attach a synopsis of practice visits that makes reference to a practice visit to MR BAMGBELU’s practice at 52 Bromham Road, Bedford, MK40 2QG in July 2004. The document is incorrect in recording that the inspection took place in 2004. No such inspection in fact took place.” According to the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), England’s young adults are amongst the least literate in the industrialised world. Racism is likelier when there’s a decline in educational standards.
Mediocre GDC
Author: Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681813777
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
It is naivety that borders upon dishonesty to suggest that Britain’s mediocre General Dental Council (GDC) is untouched by the decline in the general educational standard. “To disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt.” – Oscar Wilde In November 2008, the mediocre GDC belatedly and retrospectively charged and found the first ever and only Negro dentist in Bedford guilty of using “kavoklave instead of autoclave” for two months in 1996, twelve years earlier! In 1996, the Caucasian predecessor at the dental practice had used the same autoclave for several years before the Negro took over from her. “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.” – George Orwell The GDC charged that there was “The need for an autoclave for sterilisation as opposed to the kavoklave that was in sole use.” In 2007, in order to corroborate allegations by a racist and dishonest senior National Health Service (NHS) nurse, Rachael Bishop, the GDC went back to the year 1996 to find that kavoklave isn’t an autoclave! The confused council didn’t know that kavoklave is an autoclave. Dr Anand Kamath actually died in his home upon being threatened to be reported to the GDC. “Dr Prasad, the widow of Dr Anand Kamath, told an inquest he felt ‘bullied and harassed’ after being summoned for a meeting and sent a letter warning he could be reported to the General Dental Council.” – Daily Mail, Eleanor Harding, 11.08.2013
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681813777
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
It is naivety that borders upon dishonesty to suggest that Britain’s mediocre General Dental Council (GDC) is untouched by the decline in the general educational standard. “To disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt.” – Oscar Wilde In November 2008, the mediocre GDC belatedly and retrospectively charged and found the first ever and only Negro dentist in Bedford guilty of using “kavoklave instead of autoclave” for two months in 1996, twelve years earlier! In 1996, the Caucasian predecessor at the dental practice had used the same autoclave for several years before the Negro took over from her. “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.” – George Orwell The GDC charged that there was “The need for an autoclave for sterilisation as opposed to the kavoklave that was in sole use.” In 2007, in order to corroborate allegations by a racist and dishonest senior National Health Service (NHS) nurse, Rachael Bishop, the GDC went back to the year 1996 to find that kavoklave isn’t an autoclave! The confused council didn’t know that kavoklave is an autoclave. Dr Anand Kamath actually died in his home upon being threatened to be reported to the GDC. “Dr Prasad, the widow of Dr Anand Kamath, told an inquest he felt ‘bullied and harassed’ after being summoned for a meeting and sent a letter warning he could be reported to the General Dental Council.” – Daily Mail, Eleanor Harding, 11.08.2013
Christ Is Our God
Author: Yinka Bamgbelu
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631354620
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
It seems extraordinary that Dr Richard Dawkins, who Dr Stephen Hawking implied was an imbecile, was apologising for Albert Einstein. I believe Dawkins was afflicted by delusional self-aggrandisement, which is a form of psychosis and part of the clinical manifestations of latent, progressive dementia. He was not fit to speak for a true genius like Einstein. Infallibility is brainless nonsense, as it exists only in the supernatural realm. Only an infallible being will describe another being as fallible. If Albert Einstein were a stately horse, Dr Richard Dawkins is an insect. Albert Einstein regards Sir Isaac Newton as near deity. Sir Isaac Newton was a devout, unorthodox Christian, and perhaps, the supreme science genius.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631354620
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
It seems extraordinary that Dr Richard Dawkins, who Dr Stephen Hawking implied was an imbecile, was apologising for Albert Einstein. I believe Dawkins was afflicted by delusional self-aggrandisement, which is a form of psychosis and part of the clinical manifestations of latent, progressive dementia. He was not fit to speak for a true genius like Einstein. Infallibility is brainless nonsense, as it exists only in the supernatural realm. Only an infallible being will describe another being as fallible. If Albert Einstein were a stately horse, Dr Richard Dawkins is an insect. Albert Einstein regards Sir Isaac Newton as near deity. Sir Isaac Newton was a devout, unorthodox Christian, and perhaps, the supreme science genius.
Imbeciles
Author: Adam Cohen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101980834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles, bestselling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law—including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court’s famous declaration “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.” At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared “feebleminded” and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded. Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a “test case” to determine whether Virginia’s new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her—not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck’s case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck’s sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended some sixty to seventy thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101980834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles, bestselling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law—including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court’s famous declaration “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.” At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared “feebleminded” and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded. Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a “test case” to determine whether Virginia’s new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her—not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck’s case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck’s sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended some sixty to seventy thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history.
Creating Born Criminals
Author: Nicole Hahn Rafter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067419
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past. It is an exploration of the role of biological explanation as a form of discourse and of its impact upon society. While The Bell Curve and other recent books have stopped short of making eugenic recommendations, their contentions point toward eugenic conclusions, and people familiar with the history of eugenics can hear in them its echoes. Rafter demonstrates that we need to know how eugenic reasoning worked in the past and that we must recognize the dangers posed by the dominance of a theory that interprets social problems in biological terms and difference as biological inferiority.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067419
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past. It is an exploration of the role of biological explanation as a form of discourse and of its impact upon society. While The Bell Curve and other recent books have stopped short of making eugenic recommendations, their contentions point toward eugenic conclusions, and people familiar with the history of eugenics can hear in them its echoes. Rafter demonstrates that we need to know how eugenic reasoning worked in the past and that we must recognize the dangers posed by the dominance of a theory that interprets social problems in biological terms and difference as biological inferiority.