> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
>
> Replace all the existing prisoners with one: George Zimmerman.
> > That's my plan.
> >
>
> But the reason *why* shouldn't be too much to request.
Keep that politics/policy distinction in mind. Of course I'm not seriously proposing a policy for the courts and the prisons; I'm just making a polemical point. To the guy on the neighboring barstool, to borrow Doug's pons-asinorum.
The underlying logic, if you like, is something like this:
1) Prisons are supposed to keep dangerous people off the street.
2) Any one loon like George Zimmerman is a lot more dangerous than any number of potheads or turnstile- jumpers or deadbeat dads or graffiti-painters.
3) So why is dangerous George Zimmerman a free man and so many less dangerous people are not?
4) Can we infer that the prisons and courts we actually have are about something other than the advertised program?