LI Newsday OpEd: Criminal Justice System
Deranged Mutant
WlkngOwl at UNiX.asb.com
Sun Feb 11 17:27:17 PST 1996
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 at unix.asb.com>
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