🚀 go-pugleaf

zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:

>>Okay, I'll admit it - this was flame bait.  But you get my point
>>- I simply can't trust the government (or anyone else that matter)
>>completely enough to give it that kind of life or death power.

>You and I have a basic philosophical difference of opinion here.

> [edited]

>I simply can't trust the government to keep these people locked up. The death
>penalty solves the problem. And since it is applied in this country to only the
>most heinous of crimes, I'm not very worried about it being misapplied. For
>example, Dodd is the first person executed in Washington in 29.5 years. And
>Washington isn't likely to do more than a few a year even if they can figure
>out how to get past the ACLU and the liberal appeals courts.

So the Magic Efficency Dust is scattered more selectively than I
thought.  The Tooth Fairy apparently sprinkles liberal doses all
over the execution chamber while skipping over the Parole Board's
meeting room.

Oh.
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David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
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