The Gap - Page 4

Happy Monkey · 05-27-2008, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

Ohh inhumane??? - the poor things - eff that. They are prisoners - they are supposed to be getting punished.
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Hey, maybe we could let half the people incarcerated for BS drug crimes or traffic tickets out and really put some cash to use in a more positive & constructive way?

In the same post, even.

monster · 05-27-2008, 07:33 PM

Perhaps we need to concentrate on closing the American/Rest Of The World Gap before we even start on poverty .......

DanaC · 05-28-2008, 07:59 AM

lol

classicman · 05-28-2008, 12:37 PM

I really don't give a crap about the serious criminals that get incarcerated time after time - They are simply a drain our society and should be tossed of the planet. Send them on a one way trip to Mars or something - I care more about the monkeys than them. I would much rather help the poor than those scumbags.

Oh, and yes I think that there are way too many people in prison or jail that don't belong there - your point HM?

Happy Monkey · 05-28-2008, 02:40 PM

There will always be people in prison who don't belong there. Even if you don't care about being humane to real criminals, that should be enough reason to be humane to prisoners.

classicman · 05-28-2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

There will always be people in prison who don't belong there. Even if you don't care about being humane to real criminals, that should be enough reason to be humane to prisoners.

I recognize that HM - please! My point was that there are options available to us as a society where we can better utilize the monies sent on those incarcerated or reducing that number.

Either one affords us the opportunity to take care of, what I feel is, a more deserving segment of society.

Happy Monkey · 05-28-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

I recognize that HM - please!

I'm not sure you do.

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Originally Posted by classicman

Ohh inhumane??? - the poor things - eff that. They are prisoners - they are supposed to be getting punished.

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My point was that there are options available to us as a society where we can better utilize the monies sent on those incarcerated or reducing that number.

Any monies spent that result in inhumane treatment of prisoners is disgraceful, not better utilized.

DanaC · 05-28-2008, 05:40 PM

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"The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Winston Churchill believed that a society's attitude to its "criminals", is the measure of

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"the stored up strength of a nation".

classicman · 05-28-2008, 11:42 PM

HM - I questioned what was "inhumane" the fact that they got three meals a day, gym equipment, tv with cable, libraries...and so on. You've missed my point.

TheMercenary · 05-30-2008, 12:30 PM

Any time I think about wealth redistribution I think about how the liberals really just want to become dictators in a socialist society.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-31-2008, 12:03 AM

They always want to make poor peoples lives conform to their standards, when they should be working on providing employment opportunities and then let the people live the way they choose.

Sundae · 05-31-2008, 04:05 AM

Or just give them bread & circuses and keep them in their place?

05-27-2008, 07:33 PM	#47
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Perhaps we need to concentrate on closing the American/Rest Of The World Gap before we even start on poverty ....... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-28-2008, 12:37 PM	#49
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I really don't give a crap about the serious criminals that get incarcerated time after time - They are simply a drain our society and should be tossed of the planet. Send them on a one way trip to Mars or something - I care more about the monkeys than them. I would much rather help the poor than those scumbags. Oh, and yes I think that there are way too many people in prison or jail that don't belong there - your point HM? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

05-28-2008, 02:40 PM	#50
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	There will always be people in prison who don't belong there. Even if you don't care about being humane to real criminals, that should be enough reason to be humane to prisoners. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

05-28-2008, 11:42 PM	#54
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	HM - I questioned what was "inhumane" the fact that they got three meals a day, gym equipment, tv with cable, libraries...and so on. You've missed my point. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

05-30-2008, 12:30 PM	#55
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Any time I think about wealth redistribution I think about how the liberals really just want to become dictators in a socialist society. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

05-28-2008, 07:59 AM	#48
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	lol

05-31-2008, 12:03 AM	#56
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	They always want to make poor peoples lives conform to their standards, when they should be working on providing employment opportunities and then let the people live the way they choose. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-31-2008, 04:05 AM	#57
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Or just give them bread & circuses and keep them in their place? __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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