"Close the Prisons!" is not a slogan that is going to attract anybody in the population whatsoever. It's not really up there with "Land for the Peasants!" Thus, it does not belong to the class of "slogans that are good," but rather to the class of "slogans that are crap."
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Except as you conceded earlier, it doesn't really mean
> close the prisons. It means, fewer people in prison and more
> alternatives to incarceration. But never let complexity get
> in the way of a slogan!
>
> Doug
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