The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
Following are extracts from some of their
speeches
:
All governments are domineering parties. Assassina-
tion will remove the evil from the face of the earth.
For freedom all things are just.
We need no president, no congressmen, no police, no
militia, no judges. They are all leeches sucking the
blood of the poor who have to support them by their
labor.
We are told that we must obtain our means and need
by obeying law and order. Damn law and order. We
have obeyed law and order long enough. The time has
come for you men to strangle the law or the law will
strangle you.
That was the philosophy of the anarchists, to
destroy the law. The philosophy here is that the
law has no application. The anarchists believed in
their doctrine of social revolution, but they were
executed under the laws that they damned, executed
not for their abstract opinions, not for their theory
and philosophy, but because of their murder. Mistaken
men that they were, they had no selfish money
motive for their crime.
Only so recently as People vs. Lloyd et al., 304
Illinois, 2J, the communists also had a philosophy
and a theory of revolutionary socialism. They
aimed to conquer the power of the State. They
were convicted of a conspiracy and their conviction
affirmed in the Supreme Court.
Upon what theory can it be said that the views
of Leopold, Jr., his philosophy and his opinions,
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