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(...) Hrmmm... interesting take on that opinion, I suppose. Certainly one of the ways people would try to prevent prison labor. 'Course, in my limited understanding of how prison industries work right now, the prisoners do, in fact, get paid. IMO, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote (...) Larry, I believe even the USA abolished slavery some time ago. Unless you let the prisoners choose, and pay them, then you've just bought it back. (...) Frying is known to be ineffective. at least (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's one heckuva weird scenario. I probably fit into most of that as well, and I don't ever recall being put into a situation where peer pressure or anything else might have suggested that I murder someone. (...) Yep, put the kid down. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And even if they are otherwise normal, so what? I say someone just like me but who has taken another human's life is substantially different and needs special handling - like restitutive incarceration. What I don't buy from Mike's opinion is (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If you read the threads you'd remember. No free goods, as Larry would say. One in particular, though, that stands out in my mind, is the one about the man who'd worked for a plant all his life, then suddenly the plant closes down, he finds (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, I am. Maybe you think it's a fault to judge other people by their actions. I don't. Let's see, what types of people do we have in prisons, for the most part? Murderers, rapists, child molesters, thieves, etc. Yep, scum. Maybe you think (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mike, (...) they (...) be (...) reasons (...) What was bogus about the scenarios? (...) No problems with that - I believe that as well. (...) OK - since you 'actually *think* about things' <grin>, can you explain exactly who the person, entity or (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 'let the scum sit in a prison...' ??? Not judgemental about other people at all are we! The people - and as Larry pointed out there are doubtless many - who didn't commit any crime but ended up in prison anyway because a jury incorrectly (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd go for that in Libertopia. In reality, though, prisoners can't really be "forced" to work, can they? Or is that a state by state, thing? If the choices are let the scum sit in a prison watching tv and reading books, maybe even taking (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Banned? I musta missed that notice. I know some people prefer African-American, but I sure don't. Most black people I know use black. (...) Yeah, I just saw a story on CNN about all the seemingly racist talk going on in Norway right now during (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aliens! Well, statistically speaking, that's the best answer anyway... :-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nope. Not till you change your name to K001 $1M0n PhReAk R0b1n$0n and brag about hacking the mainframe computers for at least 150 first-world nations and implanting y2k coputer virii into their Web pages... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Don't usually agree with Richard much in the sphere of politics (although he's a good friend and very solid trader) but I have to weigh in on the anti-death-penalty side. I'm agin em because of the error factor, and because I want the criminals (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Richard Dee <richard.dee@virgin.net> wrote in message news:MPG.1231ab1ddc6...net.com... (...) New (...) I know :( I wish we could change that, but it would take one heck of a lot of re-education. But the insult remains the same. I don't think (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why not just buy them on the net from a US discount vendor? (...) And rightly so. Many of us agree with those sentiments. --Chris (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:45:18 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) UK public perception is very much anti-death penalty, due to mistakes, where the wrong person was hanged, and one particular instance when the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:32:55 GMT, Jesse Long uttered the following profundities... (...) An American using the word "black." I thought that label was banned? The US is not alone in having race problems. The Metropolitan Police (London police) have (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:18:12 GMT, Adam Howard uttered the following profundities... (...) <snip> "Yank" is the common, global reference to Americans. You should here the Strine rhyming slang for Americans, "Septic Tank." :o) (...) <snipped quote of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Apparently the tone of the note was misleading. You say that "killing Nips" is offensive. Do you mean that doing so is offensive, or that using that phrase is? I agree that doing so is in modern context. The phrase on the other hand is an (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<FH531u.BBy@lugnet.com> <37C88E50.5B325C68@eclipse.net> <FH7C2I.GF3@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Well, I and certain other reasonable people seem to agree. Let's just go with that. :-) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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