I realize you don't really care, since the only thing important in the universe is creating a serious US left and everything else can go hang, but I'm wondering what you think should have been done with John Wayne Gacy.
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Prisons and The Left
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 4:43 AM
> Just a note; my focus is _wholly_ on
> the creation of a serious left in
> the u.s. The main reason, perhaps, for abolishing the
> prison system
> relates not to the prisoners but to the corrupting
> influence the prison
> system has on the social order as a whole. No one should
> really want
> living among us, for example, the kind of people
> created by employment
> as prison or jail staff. And no one should want the kind of
> population
> which supprots the present prison system. The punishment
> obsession shag
> describes is a ,akpr barroer tp solidarity == the woman I
> spoke to about
> migrants just spit out, then repeated, ELLEGAL, ILLEGAL,
> immigrants.
>
> Carrol
>
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