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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60056)	2/6/2005 2:50:56 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

societies go thorugh a 100 years or 50 years period in which they are adapting to a new environment. Europe lived their Middle Ages and Africa have lived through theirs and are in the verge of coming out of it. North America didn't. N.A arrived when scientific development was kicking in and Europeans were sick of a ddying system that still clung to the past and had a nice 200-year go. Latin America is a different story. They dind't cut the umbilical cord with Europe and kept some European ways of doing things and this has hampered their progress. There they were. We don't want to do a North America. And North America was a good model for Brazil in the 40 years from 1920 to 1960. Looking from outside, Brazil was an US in the budding in the 20s. Then they screwed real good and copied European fascists of the 30's: Vargas in Brazil Peron in Argentina and everything went down hill. Those were the 80 years while Brazil was still trying to seek what it wanted to be. I think now we are at Point A and we know where we want to be: POINT B. Better even! We are already acting as if we'd be already in Point B.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60056)	2/6/2005 10:02:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Mq, Re: There's something to be said for how Saudi Arabia handles crime. Saudi Arabia has a public beheading nearly every week. Somehow, I don't feel that they quite have the answer... I'm more inclined toward the non-lethal approach of Singapore, or of the EU. I suppose I'm in the minority here in the U.S. But I had a friend who turned me around on the issue of capital punishment in 2001, even before the Republican govenor of Illinois set up a commission which discovered that there were many men on Illinois' death row who simply hadn't been tried fairly. The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibited the federal government from engaging in murder to punish criminals. I believe we were a better nation then...