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First They Came For Lynne Stewart
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2005
by Marjorie Cohn
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2005, page 14
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Criminal Prosecution,
Attorneys,
Attorney Client,
Attorney Visits.
Location:
United States of America.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out
because ...
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