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Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime

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From: Kym HORSELL
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00
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nenosed@apex.met.au (Ned Latham) writes:
>Lugnut <ausbiz@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 01:41:09 GMT, nenosed@apex.met.au (Ned Latham)
>> wrote:
>> > Lugnut <ausbiz@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> > > nenosed@apex.met.au (Ned Latham) wrote:
>> > > > Lugnut <ausbiz@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> > ----snip----
>> > > > As to those lower on crime's social ladder, gaol is a more effective teacher
>> > > > of criminal knowledge and attitude than the internet will ever be.
>> > >
>> > > exactly.  you cant censor the internet (yet) and you cant stop crims
>> > > learning more about how to perform crime when they come into contact
>> > > with other criminals.
>> > So, as I said, gaol is a bad idea.
...

Goodness. It seems someone ELSE is mis-quoting Latham, and there's no
sign of my activities here.

One can only suspect that Ned has suddenly "woken up" after things have
been (independently) snow-balling in this direction for some time.

Thank God we don't *rely* on the jury system in this country.
--
R. Kym Horsell
KHorsell@EE.LaTrobe.EDU.AU                  Kym@CS.Binghamton.EDU 
http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~khorsell      http://cs.binghamton.edu/~kym
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From: kym@cs.mu.oz.au (Kym HORSELL)
Subject: Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime
Date: 1999/11/11
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