#crime

Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life. Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill. ↗

— Judy Byington

#crime #cult #dissociation #dissociative-identity-diroder #human-sacrifice

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#because #been #convention #crimes #escape

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crime #going #happy #lawyer #progress

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#better place #country #crime #currently #enforcement

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#commission #crime #crimes #ever #far

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. ↗

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#committed #crimes #done #duty #had

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#crime #his #lips #open #plain

He who allows oppression shares the crime. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#crime #oppression #shares #who

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#crimes #crown #great #guilty #his

I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned. ↗