eWe Won't Have CJ Parker and Richard NIxon To Kick Around AnyMore...

[georgemw at speakeasy.net]

On 23 Oct 2001, at 14:13, Steve Furlong wrote:

> Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:32:19PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
> > > I can't sympathise much on this basis. A family member, a retired cop
> > > and the family shame, confirmed what I had suspected: that most people
> > > in jail are there because they couldn't keep their mouths shut --- on
> > 
> > Um, no. Many are there because they're (gasp) "drug criminals."
> 
> Oh, certainly. I should have left my post the way I first wrote it:
> "most criminals in jail...", distinguishing murderers and such from
> people who voluntarily use drugs and those who supply them.
> 
> How about this version: Most malem in se convicts are in prison because
> they couldn't keep their mouths shut.
> 

Actually, I think you were right the first time.  We may feel 
symapthy for the malum prohibido convicts and contempt for
the in se ones,  but odds are pretty good that a convict
of either catgeory is likely to be complicit in his own convition.
In fact, small quantity non violent drug offenders are probably
among the most likely to fall for the "we'll go easier on
you if we cooperate" line.

George  
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