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To: Ilaine who wrote (43395)	5/10/2004 8:02:48 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793725

I see someone else saw a connection between CA's AGs outrageous comment and Abu Ghraib too: Monday, May 10, 2004 ABU GHRAIB TOO CLOSE TO HOME Best commentary yet on the Abu Ghraib scandal, from Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins on his new subscription-only email service, Political Diary. First impressions led to an outpouring of commentary suggesting a diabolical, Strangelovian plot to hit Arabs where they're most vulnerable, their sexual pride. In fact, what we've had thrown back in our faces appears partly to be the worst aspects of our own domestic prison culture, exported to Iraq, about which Americans cannot claim to have been ignorant...California's chief law enforcement officer, Bill Lockyer, treated as an open joke the prevalence of homosexual rape in his prison system. ...Mr. Lockyer famously told the Journal, "I would love to personally escort [Enron Chief Ken] Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, `Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'" Though some chuckled at his witless quip, a better response would have been to recognize the truth that underlay the weak humor and asked Mr. Lockyer why he allows extrajudicial punishments such as rape to be carried out on inmates putatively in the state's care. poorandstupid.com