LI Newsday OpEd: Criminal Justice System
Found a really good op-ed piece in LI Newsday, Thurs. Feb 8, pA53 by Robert Reno, "If Jails Are Full, How Much Tougher Can Judges Get?" Some highlights: American Jails are more packed with criminals than ever in history. We know this for sure because every time we count them, it keeps showing the percentage of the population that is in jail has quadrupled in 25 years, is higher than any other civilized nation... [...] It is something of a mystery how so many people got in jail because we have it on the testimony of some leading politicians that knavish judges are freeing criminals in record numbers. Pat Buchanan babbles to anybody who'll listen that federal judges are "an unelected elite," solititous of "criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal aliens, convicts and pornographers." I don't know why he left out gun molls, blood suckers, snake charmers, pig rustlers, serial blackguards, pyromaniacs, and mailbox vandals... [...] ...There is something more to the point, though, than the disposition of politicians to bay moronically at the moon. If we want a more predictable system in which judicial descisions never surprise us, then we have perfectly good functioning models from which to choose from. Take your pick: China, Cuba, North Korea, Iraq. Any one will do. --- "Mutant" Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a blank message with the subject "send pgp-key" (not in quotes) for a copy of my PGP key.
"Deranged Mutant" writes:
Found a really good op-ed piece in LI Newsday, Thurs. Feb 8, pA53 by Robert Reno, "If Jails Are Full, How Much Tougher Can Judges Get?"
I personally find stuff like this interesting, but I prefer read about it in places like libernet or the like. Cypherpunks is for cryptography. .pm
On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
"Deranged Mutant" writes:
Found a really good op-ed piece in LI Newsday, Thurs. Feb 8, pA53 by Robert Reno, "If Jails Are Full, How Much Tougher Can Judges Get?"
I personally find stuff like this interesting, but I prefer read about it in places like libernet or the like. Cypherpunks is for cryptography.
I personally like reviews of messages that are posted regarding other people's posts, however I prefer to read them in email. Cypherpunks isn't for "this doesn't belong here" messages. :) ========================================================================== + ^ + | Ray Arachelian |Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness| _ |> \|/ |sunder@dorsai.org|is cleanliness and cleanliness is god-| \ | <--+-->| |liness and god is empty, just like me,| \| /|\ | Just Say |intoxicated with the maddness, I'm in| <|\ + v + | "No" to the NSA!|love with my sadness. (Pumpkins/Zero)| <| n ===================http://www.dorsai.org/~sunder/========================= [This Bible excerpt awaiting review under the Communications Decency Act] And then Lot said, "I have some mighty fine young virgin daughters. Why don't you boys just come on in and do em right here in my house - I'll just watch!"....Later, up in the mountains, the younger daughter said. "Dad's getting old. I say we should do him." So the two daughters got him drunk and did him all that night. Sure enough, Dad got em pregnant....Onan really hated the idea of doing his brother's wife and getting her pregnant while his brother got all the credit, so he whacked off first....Remember, it's not a good idea to have sex with your sister, your brother, your parents, your pet dog, or the farm animals. [excerpts from the Old Testament, Modern Vernacular Translation, TCM, 1996]
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