Posted on 11/25/2011 9:46:47 AM PST by Kaslin
He's wrong! Everyone on that list should be executed - not in prison!
The idea might fly if the SEIU can
incorporate all lashor’s into their
Union.
I'd pay to see some legislators get
the lash for lying. Could reduce
the deficit.
My son and girlfriend were pulled over Wednesday night for “following too close”, officer arrested both of them for oustanding traffic violations. Thrown in the county jail until family bails them out. (Yes, over Thanksgiving holiday). Yes, the prison system has become a huge money maker for some. (County prosecuter with financial ties to prison food vending company) The present “Correctional” system is not correcting anybody and making huge profits for those with “connections”.
A couple of decades ago an American kid in (I think) Singapore was caught spray painting graffiti and was sentenced to the lash. America was scandalized. But on the plane into Singapore there was an orientation lecture. No gum, no graffiti, etc. The laws and penalties were explained. The sentencing was on the news nightly and the whole thing was followed like the OJ trial. After the sentence had been carried out the news commentator, who had flown over special so he could have local color in the background, was explaining how barbaric it was, but he ended his piece with, Well, I bet he never does THAT again. Back to you, Walter. It hit me that, no, he wouldnt. And that should be the point of any punishment.
What scares me is there will be attempts to balance the punishments by including a sufficient amount of Caucasians, for example, to ensure fairness; whether it is Caucasians committing the offenses or not.
One lash? Seriously, one lash?? - Get freaking real
Close - it wasn’t the lash it was the Cane.
I agreed with Singapore 100% - and we NEED that here, as well
I think that spanking criminals would help with their lack of impulse control.
...officer arrested both of them for oustanding traffic violations.
You did a real sweet job of raising the boy to ignore laws. Maybe, in the future he will ignore enough laws to end up in the “Prison industry” too.
I know a lotta guys that would volunteer to administer spankings-and then turn around and swap places.
“Still, the state of our prisons has become something of a scandal. We have more prisoners today than we have soldiers, and more prison guards than Marines. “
I question that old canard. Per http://www.cis.org/ImmigrantCrime
“The Federal Bureau of Prisons reports that 26.4 percent of inmates in federal prisons are non-U.S. citizens. Non-citizens are 8.6 percent of the nations adult population.”
That’s a big number.
Unpaid traffic tickets is nothing. In my province, you can’t renew your drivers or register your car until the fines are all paid up, so the government gets its money any way.
There is also a government/corporate medical-complex, and it makes the PIC look like a piker.
3 strikes,...you're out.
“Unpaid traffic tickets is nothing. In my province, you cant renew your drivers or register your car until the fines are all paid up, so the government gets its money any way.”
That’s nothing; here in NJ many illegals dirve with no license, insurance, or registration.
To their surprise, the two nations of the world that graded at the very top were Denmark and Singapore. It was a surprise to the researchers because they initially couldn't find anything in common between them: Denmark was known for being democratic, laid-back and libertarian, while Singapore was known for its fast-paced economic climate and its pretty repressive government run by a ruling family.
The two countries that ranked at the bottom of the list were Iraq and Italy.
When they looked a little closer, what the researchers found was that "happiness" was not primarily a function of freedom vs. repression in a society, but by a sense of objective order. Despite the perception among outsiders that Singapore's government was repressive (or even brutal, in some cases), what gave its citizenry a sense of contentment was that they lived under a legal system that was governed by an objective order in which all people would be treated just as harshly as the next if they violated that moral/legal code. They were perfectly fine with that, and the presence of that underlying objective order was the one key element that was common to both Singapore and Denmark.
Iraq and Italy, on the other hand, were marked by large-scale discontentment because most of the people in those countries went through their daily lives with the expectation that their government -- and even their entire social order -- was rotten to the core and corrupt beyond repair.
“I know a lotta guys that would volunteer to administer spankings-and then turn around and swap places.”
Reminds me of the old joke:
Masochist: “Beat me! Whip me now!”
Sadist: “No, I won’t!”
I think Moskos’s proposal is light, but his proposal is one lash (on bare skin with a nasty whip or cane which will cut the skin with each stroke) per six months of prison sentence. One stroke of the lash per three months of normal sentence strikes me as a better trade-off. Of course, his main point was to get us to think about what “penitentiaries” have become, not places where any penance typically take place, and far less humane than the punishment they replaced for most crimes: flogging.
Of course, considering that the courts are giving out six-month sentences for “fleeing and eluding” to folks (at least black folks, or maybe folks with an eight-year old DUI as their only previous brush with the law) with the temerity to not instantaneously realize that the patrol car’s flashers coming on was directed at them before they’d driven 100 feet or so (yes, I have an example), maybe in some cases his proposal might even be harsh.
bump
My son and girlfriend were pulled over Wednesday night for following too close,
Good. Was your girlfriend more pissed at your son or the cops?
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