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To: Lane3 who wrote (16039)	6/29/2002 5:51:05 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Seeking redress, or restitution, smacks too much of debtor's prison for my taste: those with funds get off or out easily and the poor and unskilled rot in jail.

To: Lane3 who wrote (16039)	6/29/2002 6:08:02 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I knew a Jewish fellow whose father grew up in Germany, and barely escaped the Nazis. The father lost many family members in the Holocaust. In the 70s, the West German government made a token attempt at reparations to survivors and their kin. The father bought reams of toilet tissue and sent them to the German consulate in New York. If my son were murdered, I assure you, absent convincing mitigation, I would rather have the killer drawn and quartered than accept a hundred million dollars in reparations. I might accept a life sentence, but only if I thought he would not get paroled for a long, long time. I do not think that paradigms have much to do with wrath over serious injuries to ourselves, our kin, and our friends. Heck, I would gladly have pulled the switch on Susan Smith, and I did not even know her children.......