I suspect,” says Kunstler talking to a crowd during the Chicago 8 trial, “that more people have gone to their deaths through a legal system than through all the illegalities in the history of man: 6 million people in Europe during the Third Reich. Legal. Sacco and Vanzetti. Legal. The hundreds of great trials throughout the South where black men were condemned to death. All legal. Jesus. Legal. Socrates. Legal. …All tyrants learn that it is far better to do this thing through some semblance of legality than to do it without that pretense.