Gary Haugen's 'Accomplices'

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Accomplices
Gary Haugen thinks one of the hidden reasons for poverty is that there are still many people live out of the law. I do agree with his point. However, when I ponder over this view for sometimes, I have another idea which bond with law ,but in different fields .Law is always weak. Legal loophole isn’t the directly reason, we cannot deny that people who hide under the power as the dissembler is actually the force for enervating the law. They are not the criminals, we call them accomplices.
Have you heard about the sexual assault in the school for deaf-mutes in Korea? Three children in the school fall prey to sexual abuse by teachers for almost 4 years. As the normal people we do feel anger about that, we believe that they will be

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