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To: Ilaine who wrote (75606)	2/19/2003 2:59:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

<Not so much the environment, but because they couldn't have visitors anymore -- too far. Took a lot of the fun out of crime. > CB, Imagine what would happen to the crime rate if criminals ended up in a dog food can with their photo and crime on the label. Moslem criminals could end up in a pig food can. That would probably put people off eating bacon though, so the pigs would have to be pet pigs or something. The way to stop crime is to make it known what is a crime [murdering people - not voluntary euthanasia, not mothers killing their own babies, not self-defence killing, not various other categories], make sure the criminal is caught, [get DNA from all males between ages 13 and 25, then expand that when the males are done to include everyone and umbilicus blood from day one as well - line everyone up in a computer], make them rue the day they considered their crime as a good idea [off to the canning factory]. Lesser crimes would require time in the Gulag in rural Pennsylvania. When crime stops paying, people will stop enjoying the fun and material proceeds of crime. There would still be the odd person who enjoys a challenge, even if their own survival is at great risk - somebody indifferent to their own life might even be encouraged to murder. Catch 22 is that if they want to die, they have to stay alive in a cage with no tv, no phone, no sex with stupid warders. Similar dissuasion techniques are needed in the grand scheme of things. Politicians who 'disappear' political opponents would be answerable to the United States of Freedom. Osama would be in trouble. So would Saddam. Milosevic is suffering a form of torture right now = perpetual hounding by fleets of lawyers in a real-time nightmare. It's surprising that such barbarity, cruel and unusual punishment is allowed in Europe. To add to the cruelty, they haven't even found him guilty after a year of trial and years in prison. 'Innocent until proven guilty' is a lie for the legal people to twist somebody viciously. His crimes can't be very certain if it takes a year to figure enough out to lock him up for a decade or two. I wonder if his main crime was to lose the battle and Lt William Calley might have committed greater crimes, but never suffered legal eagles pecking his eyes out for years. People around the world could be forgiven for thinking that Americans think their crimes are not against humans [if I recall, Lt Calley only killed Gooks, not actual people]. We the Gooks get a bit nervous when we see that. We quite like the idea of a United States of Freedom to defend us against such attack. Many are suspicious that no American will get the cruel legal habeas corpses treatment that Milosevic is experiencing even for the most egregious crimes. Milosevic is a living corpse, stuck forever in a legal Schroedinger box - neither alive nor dead, but with the box made of glass, we can all view the process - a surrealistic kind of Real TV. A kind of Truman Show, but against his will. He's living a Groundhog Day of forward and backward travel in time, every day repeated. Those lawyers sure know how to twist physics and law around, not to mention poor old Milosevic. Thinking inside the box, Mqurice