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To: Age of Reason
Loosening up bond requirements and restraining judges discretion would certainly reduce the backlog on the bench and clear out some room in the jailhouse! What a brilliant idea! You must be a leftist.
33 posted on 12/27/2002 11:31:49 AM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Nonstatist
You must be a leftist.

NO.

I'm something altogether different.

I don't blindly adhere to some ideology; rather I recognize that political ideas are solutions to problems.

I believe that if one wants to avoid an unpleasant solution, then one must first try to avoid creating the problem that requires the unpleasant solution.

For example, if the problem were that you and I and others were adrift in a lifeboat, then a temporary form of communism might be one solution to our plight, where we all share equally in the supplies of food and water and ownership of the lifeboat.

If you don't want to live like that, then avoid icebergs.

In warfare, an army organized on less than democratic principles is a better idea than one where the soldiers vote for who their officers will be.

Different situation demand different kinds of governing.

36 posted on 12/27/2002 12:08:08 PM PST by Age of Reason
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