[Uncle Ike]

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.....

[goldstategop]

Those children should just have been given a lecture by the principle and sent home. There was no need to treat them like criminals, have the police arrest them and put them in jail for what? As for the D.A, if I was a parent hearing that idiotic blather about my child being a "sex offender" he would find himself on the receiving of my fist smashing into his face. Any one who does THAT to a child deserves what they get for being a bully - a bully with a badge.

"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

[ran20]

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.