COMBAT Disclaimer

"Law is simply a superstructure for whatever power system is currently reigning."
by Karl Heinrich Marx

"Legal is just the word for everything that's not threatening to the ruling order."
paraphrase of Hari Kunzru

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
by William Shakespeare

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COMBAT magazine endorses the diversity of opinion protected by the constitution and statutes of the United States of America, but is not responsible for their particular expression in any specific utterance placed in public circulation by this periodical. The views and conclusions expressed in this periodical are not necessarily commensurate with those of the editorial staff or publisher, and should not be construed as official policy statements or authoritative recommendations of this publication. No resource or referral, product or service associated with or cited by this magazine, its host or archive, shall be construed as an affiliation or endorsement, unless otherwise stated, explicitly and unequivocally.

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"The law is not the place for the artist or the poet...."
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law."
by Emma Goldman

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson