“Criminalizing everyone”

by Will on October 5, 2009

This op-ed should send chills up every law-abiding citizen’s spine (via Reason).

Tagged as: Crime, Militarization

Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.

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1 E.D. Kain October 5, 2009 at 9:41 am

Good grief.

2 Dave October 5, 2009 at 12:31 pm

It chilled me to the bone. I mean, what kind of low IQ individual would forget to put a friggin sticker on a box? If the wingnuts weren’t so stupid, they wouldn’t be in jail. It’s not the regulatory structure, it’s the people under it. We just need to “nudge” them to act properly.

/snark off

3 Jaybird October 5, 2009 at 2:36 pm

May I suggest that if you don’t like the representative government and/or the laws they pass according to our system, you could move to Somalia?

4 greginak October 5, 2009 at 4:22 pm

It’s a shame there wasn’t a party who was sort of soft on crime at some time in history. My guess is if there was they would have never allowed this to happen.

5 greginak October 5, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Hmmm that was a bit more rabidly partisan them I meant it. There were plenty of pols who did not support the growth of the prison industrial complex and ever spreading criminalization of stuff. I believe St. Ronnie stuck a stake in their hearts.

6 Bob Cheeks October 6, 2009 at 4:30 am

This is what happens when you hire commie-Dems to work in the fed. prosecutor’s office. You young fellows, instead of whining about missing your latest federal stipend outta check out this bs and write about it instead of waiting on some God-fearing conservative newspaper to bring you the latest news of librul, statist offenses against liberty!
Seriously, doesn’t this article give us just a hint that, perhaps, gummint’s gotten a little to big, and maybe it’s time to put a stop to this madness? I mean in a bi-partisan way?

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