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by MikeOfAu 750 days ago
"Give me the man, and I will give you the case against him".

First said by a Soviet-era-someone, perhaps Stalin himself, WRT to his domestic adversaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...

So incredibly dangerous.

2 comments

Yes, and clearly the only alternative is to let people forge business records with impunity to cover up unscrupulous behavior.
This is a good point. Somebody once wrote a spooky phrase… makes you think that we shouldn’t have laws