Yeah, I just washed my brain today and I can't do a thing with it.
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My alternative to prisons is summary executions for executives in the FIRE sector of the economy. Short shift, abbreviated process, learn from the Chinese. You worked for AIG? You were senior management? Guilty. Take him out and shoot him _now_. No appeals. Charge the family for the bullet.
--- On Tue, 4/7/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti responds
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:44 PM
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:35 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> > i couldn't view that -- bad connex or something --
> but it'd be nice to have an explanation of what he meant
> by it.
>
> Can't speak for him, but it's pretty hard to read
> past a lede like this:
>
> > I somewhat disappointed in the lack of imagination on
> the part of most
> > responders to my proposal for elimination of the
> prison system. It does
> > bear out, however, the failure of most to grasp what
> social construction
> > means in material actuality (or at least a failure to
> incorporate that
> > understanding into their oridnary thinking). The
> comments in the thread
> > were, consequently, quite banal. It sort of bothers
> me to be forceed to
> > spell out the obvious, but I guess the intellectual
> and imaginative
> > limitions of posters to this list make it necessary.
>
> I read something like that and I just want to say
> "fuck you!" and hit the delete key. Which is what
> I did.
>
> Doug
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