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The words prejudice and corruption do not really convey what family courts are about. They are the linchpin of a massive political machine that thrives and grows by systematically destroying families. Within this machine individual judges are no more than blind executors of the system's own internal laws, as Vaclav Havel has written of another kind of apparat, laws which are far more powerful than the will of any individual. What we have, in other words, is a system of bureaucratic terror, the kind of terror that has never before been seen in the United States.
-- Professor Stephen Baskerville, Howard University, in symposium on Reign of Terror, Insight Magazine, June 18, 2001
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