THE MOST revolting scene in Monty's Python's "The Meaning of Life" depicts a man succumbing to a putatively voluntary liver donation. Arriving at his front door, the authorities point to the liver donor’s card in his wallet. “Need we say more?”, they ask, before separating the man from the “glandular organ in [his] abdomen” over his screams and protestations. Nothing quite this grotesque or absurd is going on at a courthouse in Alabama, but coerced bodily invasions do not seem to be out of the question for Judge Marvin Wiggins. In fact, they are this jurist’s favoured means of getting indigent defendants to pay their dues to society.
According to recent reports, Judge Wiggins has turned to blood donation as an alternative for people who are behind on their court debts. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,” he told dozens of people in his...Continue reading
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