The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
Crime ‘prevention’ is a good thing, right??
Somewhere in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s we, as a society, made the decision to shift our crime-fighting emphasis from ‘retribution and deterrence’ to ‘prevention’, and, in so doing, we opened the flap of a very small tent to the nose of a very large camel.
In the name of ‘prevention’, it’s become necessary to criminalize the *potential* to cause harm — and since there is almost no human activity that doesn’t potentially cause some harm to somebody, we’ve, in effect, made ‘criminals’ of every one of us...
The logical end of this is to criminalize risk, of any kind - and that end is in sight.....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Hey I like your screenname.. In Ike’s time people were crying for the government to criminalize all sorts of things to keep people safe.. Eisenhower told them we could put everyone in jail, give them 3 meals a day and keep them safe but its not really living.