And today as our own country dissolves into another Gilded Age, another era of the rich crushing the poor on our relentless drive to become another third world country, it's hard for me not to notice why people might begin to look to people like the James boys as heroes.
Even before Jesus Christ preached that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven, the Book of Isaiah of the Old Testament berated the rich who "crush my people" and "grind the face of the poor".
Besides cosseting the rich and crushing trade unions and the underclass, the generals censored the press, forbidding editors from leaving gaps in newspapers to show where news had been suppressed.
After Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took power, the rest of the package soon followed: massive tax cuts for the rich, the crushing of trade unions, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services.
The first: intense lobbying efforts from the super rich keep crushing any moves to end the carried interest loophole in Congress.
In the words of writer George Monbiot, they stood for "massive tax cuts for the rich, the crushing of trade unions, deregulation, privatization, outsourcing and competition in public services".
During the second step, the iron-rich glasses were crushed and then mixed with crushed iron-free starting materials, in order to produce iron-enrichment in the 100 1000 ppm concentration range.
It is widely assumed that Islamic plant ash glass was mostly produced with either relatively pure quartz-rich sands or crushed quartz pebbles [30].
But its rich heritage is being crushed by Beijing's brutal attempt to impose Chinese culture on an unruly imperial outpost.
The house special is a traditional Hungarian-style Gundel crepe with a rich, sweet filling of crushed walnuts, orange peel and raisins, fragrant with rum, and topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream ($7.99).
