From: Paul Hughes (planetp@aci.net)
Date: Mon Nov 30 1998 - 22:28:02 MST
Zenarchy wrote:
> From: Paul Hughes <planetp@aci.net>
> >Perhaps that is why, when I see rhetoric on this list discussing mechanisms
> moving in
> >the same direction (no matter how well intended), I see China as the end
> result.
> >There is a reason we have the Bill of Rights, because humans are fallible,
> and large
> >numbers of them without checks and balances can be downright dangerous.
>
> The US already incarcerates more people (per captita) than does China.
> Another case of the pot calling the kettle black? --J. R.
Ha! Perhaps. :-) Although in reality this is due to the fact that we have
more economic prosperity to *spend* in housing our criminals. Where as, the
Chinese government *makes* money by killing them off.
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