[lbo-talk] Imus

[Miles Jackson]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Louis:
>
> "Leftist positions on crime" -- can you be more specific?
>
>
> [WS:] For one think the left is incapable of having a coherent position on
> almost anything - it is more a pipe dreaming than a position - as
> beautifully portrayed in the film "The Old Joy" 
> http://www.kino.com/oldjoy/
>
> So what I am referring to is a bunch of urban legends circulating on the
> left that try to create sympathy for criminals by minimizing the social
> impact of their crimes on communities and the suffering of their victims,
> and instead focusing on the suffering of the criminals as "victims" of
> alleged injustice, and employing various gimmicks aiming to exonerate them
> from responsibility for their own actions.  
>
>   
If you lit a match on the above para, the straw men set aflame would be 
a raging bonfire.  Impressive!

Miles