Letters and papers from prison

From soa - trial:

Imagine you are poor or lower middle class... you can't afford a lawyer so you have to settle for a public defender who, in many cases, does the bare minimum to fulfill his/her obligations...

I'm ordinarily quite impatient with this sort of slur against my p.d. brethren and sistren, but with respect to this prisoner of conscience I'll let it go, not the least because she quoted something that's stuck with me from my college boy Liberation Theology phase:

I so want to put up on my wall by my bunk Gustavo Guttierez's words "The least human being has ABSOLUTE value and hence an ABSOLUTE right to be loved, whatever the price may be." I know I would be yelled at to take it down.

(This one goes out to a fiery young Catholic I once hired, who also crossed the line in her time, at the School of the Americas ( now WHINSEC) and elsewhere. She and I have both moved on from Idaho, but I think of her whenever she pops up on this blog's statcounter.)

Bonus links go to "A Theology of Liberation" by Gustavo Gutiérrez and "Letters and Papers from Prison" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.