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Cornelius
Sweden
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 Posted - 26 Jan 2007 : 01:53:10
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Tribalism. Or When the Legal System was heavily biased.
It is reported that The Duke of Mannheim asked the renowned Jewish Scholar Rabbi Isaac Brill why it was that the Jews in Germany were generally being accused of trying to buy the favours of the Judges and magistrates with large sums of money.
” Isn’t it unjust to bribe the Judge in order to bend the law?” asked the Duke.
The learned Rabbi answered the query thus: “In reality, it is not so, that the law is not bent by these large sums of money – on the contrary. And lease let me explain. It’s like this: When a Jew and a Christian have an argument – whatever argument, and are brought to Court and have to stand before a Christian Judge, quite naturally; to begin with, the Christian Judge is heavily biased in favour of the Christian. The money that the Jew donates to the judge helps the judge to steer his verdict away from bias for the Christian and cause him to become completely impartial.”
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