[after dark]

You must not understand my writing. I think violent evil people should be incarcerated.

I draw the line at incarcerating people for accidentally passing bad checks , and accidentally touching police officers with their pinky. It is immoral to apply the three strikes rule to those types of laws. You really must ask yourself if the sort of people who abuse the three strikes law have a sexual fetish for incarcerating people. Then again it might just be greed. Prisons provide good jobs for many people. I can understand why some people would want to work in a prison filled with people who accidentally wrote hot checks trying to feed their children on a tight budget.

As for the victimless crimes of being a dope head or being a whore, I favor more creative and less costly punishments such as caning.

[Mr. Silverback]

As for the victimless crimes of being a dope head or being a whore, I favor more creative and less costly punishments such as caning.

Although it would be very difficult to get corporal punishment instituted, I would say this: In the current regime, Mom kites a check, goes to jail for months, and the kids go into the foster system to have God knows what visited on them. Under your system, Mom gets caned and can't sit down for a week, but she's home the same day.

Works for me.

[SampleMan]

You don't know much about psychology or human trafficking to speak about "victimless crime" in the fashion you do.

You also don't know much about the populations of our prisons if you think they are full of jay walkers and the like.

I'm continually amazed at the bedrock defense that is thrown up for pot smoking, which can always be summed up as "The man is oppressing us."

Sorry, I ain't buying it.

[Politicalmom]

Why do you ignore that the first two strikes are usually violent felonies? I am all for a two strikes law. Give people ONE chance to go straight, then lock them away forever. How do you think the second and third victims feel knowing that some
"compassionate" moron thought more of the criminal's well being than their innocent victims?