From the Belarus Constitution. Lakushenko, their maximum Leader, is another despot that the Workers World Party loves 'cuz of his stand against NATO. Nevermind he disappears journalists regularly. http://www.workers.org/ww/2000/belarus1102.html
Methinks, some radicals take a purely instrumental view of police repression. Always bad, if under bourgois democratic auspices, even if used to wallop punks stealing Social Security checks from Grandmothers, always good if used to punish those ,"anti-social elements, " mostly workers and leftist, petty-bourgeois intellectuals under, "socialist, " regimes.
Good essay from Socialist Review by Nicole Hahn Rafter. The cover says, "Why The Left Is Wrong About Crime." http://nicolerafter.com/articles.html 1986 "Left Out By the Left: Crime and Crime Control." Socialist Review 89: 7- 23. Hmm, this looks good too, kelley...and Joanna. 1988 "White Trash as Social Ideology." Transaction/ Society 26: 43- 49.
Michael Pugliese, insolent cynic.
Chapter 15. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC SECURITY, PUBLIC ORDER AND HEALTH OF THE POPULATION Article 201. Hooliganism Hooliganism, that is, deliberate actions which flagrantly violate public order and express an obvious disrespect to the society - shall be punishable with the deprivation of freedom for a term of up to one year or corrective labour for the same term, or a fine. Persistent hooliganism, that is, the same actions characterized, in their content, by exclusive cynicism or a special insolence, or connected with resistance to a representative of authorities or a representative of public who performs duties on the protection of public order, or to other citizens suppressing hooligan actions, no less than actions committed by a person who has been previously convicted for hooliganism - shall be punishable with the deprivation of freedom for a term of one to five years. Actions envisaged by parts one or two of this Article, if they have been committed with the use, a threat of use or an attempt of use of fire arms or knives, knuckle-duster or other cold arms, no less than of other objects specially designed for inflicting bodily injuries - shall be punishable with the deprivation of freedom for a term of three to seven years. Article 202. Threat to Kill, Inflict Bodily Injuries or Destroy Property A threat to kill, inflict severe bodily injuries or destroy property by a social dangerous method, if there has been a real danger of the threat to be implemented - shall be punishable with the deprivation of freedom for a term of up to six months, or corrective labour for a term of up to one year, or a fine, or shall entail measures of public effect. Article 203. Acquisition or Sale of Property Knowingly Obtained by Criminal Method An acquisition or sale of property knowingly obtained by a criminal method - shall be punishable with corrective labour for a term of up to two years, or a fine, or a public censure, or shall entail measures of public effect. The same actions committed as a trade or in great amounts - shall be punishable with the deprivation of freedom for a term of up to five years with or without the confiscation of freedom.