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I hardly ever consider myself on the side of police. In fact, one of my suspicions about most police forces is that they wanted to make sure to get all males registered "in the system" in some way, and this was far ahead of Law and Order's quip to get males "in the system".
I guess the proper response would have been to have this guy already in prison (he just got out when he committed his crime) forever. Unlike your standard weekend fuckup, this guy is rotten and shows no remorse.
Crowded prisons (full of folks who smoked a doobie three times) disallow violent criminals from being put away for life. We end the freedom of drug offenders so quickly while turning rapists out on the street because they don't pose a "systematic threat to the fabric of society" -Newt Gingrich.
I guess living in a gang-ridden metro and having to see the daily reminders of tertiary degredation caused by them makes me feel less forgiving.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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