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Civil Rights

Dec. 1, 2000

No-Win Situation

Citizens of every society take comfort in the knowledge that there exists a forum, an agency, a system where they can air their complaints against abuses by the authorities or encroachments on their rights by other citizens. The belief that this forum will secure justice for them keeps them from taking the law into their own hands and maintains order and civility.

        By Pablo Agrio
        
        Citizens of every society take comfort in the knowledge that there exists a forum, an agency, a system where they can air their complaints against abuses by the authorities or encroachments on their rights by other citizens. The belief that this forum will secure justice for them keeps them from taki...

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