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February 04, 2010

Crime 'n' Punishment, Mannix Style

As noted by Carla at BlueO, Kevin's at it again, taking advantage of a political opportunity and dressing it up as concern for the peoples.

As far as it goes, though, I like the imagery of the Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance going up against (presumably) the Oregon Crime Alliance, an apparent subdivision of the World Crime League, which Buckaroo Banzai ably fought throughout his long and storied career. Fit for a comic book really.

Mockery aside, though, do people who have spent that last decade or so making our State Prison system a cash-sucking maw by demanding mandatory sentences, removing judge discretion, and jacking up penalties for just about every crime under the sun really deserve the right to complain when the changes they wreak make it necessary to let prisoners go early on the pain on not having enough money to run the rest of the state that serves law-abiding people?

I mean, I know they have the right to cherry-pick their scare-story and melodramatize it.

But do they deserve it?

I tell you what – I liked Mannix better when he was in that detective show in the 70s. Now, that was justice I could get behind!

Posted by The Chinuk at February 4, 2010 08:46 PM