Re: news...

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 12:30:46 MDT


> Wow, what a great day for news stories:
> ...
> Sounds like a one, two, three punch of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.....

Well, a 1-2 anyway. I don't care how heinous the crime, mandatory
sentence laws are _always_ bad. We hire judges to do just that--
judge--and then remove their ability to exercise human judgment in
favor of blindly following a legislated script.

--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:27:58 MST