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Father Brown was a great respite while I was locked in solitary last year as a political prisoner of Iowa Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen and her brother
by crb002 6y ago
Father Brown was a great respite while I was locked in solitary last year as a political prisoner of Iowa Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen and her brother 4th District Chief Judge Jeff Larson. As a lion's paw she named every first degree blood relation except her brother to the Iowa House today - disgusting.
For some reason I could only read a chapter at a time - the stories exhausted the mind. Not sure if it was Chesterton's unique prose or the ripples of thought it set off.
- ardy42 6y ago> while I was locked in solitary last year as a political prisoner of Iowa Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen and her brother 4th District Chief Judge Jeff Larson. As a lion's paw she named every first degree blood relation except her brother to the Iowa House today - disgusting. What now?
- skinkestek 6y agoOr, more generally: what..? I wasn't able to really make sense of that explanation at all despite often reading (and often preferring) English as much as my native language for years I think.
- implements 6y agoI’m translating it as “I fought the law but the law won, as a vulnerable prisoner I was kept on segregation for my own safety”. “Lion’s Paw” might be from the Aesop's Fable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_and_the_Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_and_the_Mouse
- alfl 6y agoI assume it’s a superlative “cat’s paw” - OP is saying that he thinks the judge has appointed family members as her own functionaries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_paw https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_paw
- yters 6y agoOuch a year of solitary! That is some gulag archipelago right there!
- permo-w 6y agoTo be fair, he (and I think it’s a fair assumption that it’s a he) didn’t say it was for a year, rather it occurred last year