On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> The "war on crimes" is the
> smartest move that the US ruling class made in response to the long
> sixties.
It was also a war that had enormous popular support. Speaking against the war on crime was a sure way for a politician to lose an election. That's a little less true now than it was 30 or 40 years ago, but it's still very risky to talk about easing off despite the fall in the crime rate.
Doug