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Privatisation lest we forget earlier 19th century Capitalist model of Law & Order to protect the private property of plundering profiteers. Today in Labor History – June 21st 10 miners accused of being militant “Molly Maguires” are hanged in Pennsylvania. A private corporation initiated the investigation of the 10 through a private detective agency. A private police force arrested them, and private attorneys for the coal companies prosecuted them. “The state provided only the courtroom & the gallows,” a judge said many years later – 1877 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 05:23:04 +0000

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