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1. Gideon is one of the hallmark cases one reads in law school, and for jailhouse lawyers. It is one of those cases which gives root to a feeling that justice is possible. A feeling I assumed naively was something called patriotism.
And no it's not patriotism, its trying to fight to stay out of or get out of a cage. Trust me, patriotism has nothing to do with fighting to get out of the fetters of enslavement
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But when you are outside, fighting for people in cages, you think, naively, that it DOES. I'm not young :) I resent this word patriot has been torn away from it's revolutionary roots, to be co-opted by conformist right wing nuts, translated as "obedience."
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