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(...) The usual leftist bilge, Richard? (...) Because freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. Many people don't understand that. (...) Show me in our Constitution where: 1. that is anywhere near the government's responsibility, and 2. why I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Umm...do you know what it costs to incarcerate people. I don't have numbers in front of me, but I can only imagine that it would be cheaper for the US taxpayer to help them than to jail them. Chris (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Do you know the percentage of crimes committed which are perpetrated by repeat offenders? If we just keep them in jail the first time, crime would plummet. -John (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) in (...) No, I don't. What is it? And what counts as a crime when compiling those numbers? And why is it that you think crimes that take place in prison are less important? I think the overall effect on the economy of fixing those who can be (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd have to remember where I saw it, but something like 70% of all violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders. And what counts as a crime when compiling those (...) I don't think I ever asserted that. (...) *They* are a necessary evil to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Only because I am finishing my breakfast and only because it is the day it is... I do have a problem with patriotism. It is the same problem I have with most "religious" people and their seemingly mad fervor for whatever thing they happen to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Little judgmental this morning, are we? To follow something blindly -- uneducated and (...) What's ignorant here is your elitism and your hatred. I thought lefties were supposed to be the tolerant ones... -- is really to favor a kind of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: [snip] (...) Wow! Do you really think this?: (...) What is the value of just getting together and patting one another on the back for being American? Chris (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would (regrettably...) dispute that these traits are confined to (modern) liberals. In my own county you need look no further than the local GOP machine to find them, although the loyal Democratic opposition has them as well. Perhaps not as (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Congratulations, John. In your responses below you have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you cannot read anything over 1-2 sentences long and comprehend it. That, or that you simply refuse to comprehend it (which you proved with your last (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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