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To: TimF who wrote (4465)	2/19/2005 1:30:41 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7936

I think the government gains legitimacy by this fact and to the extent that we make it less true we make the government less legitimate. I haven't seen an argument that it's "wrong." Your argument seems to be that it's not the best practice. And we are not just dealing with murderers, rapists and other violent felons, or even non-violent felonies that are serious crimes The whole concept of a felony is that it's serious, as opposed to a misdemeanor. Maybe we should reconsider some of our felonies so that the line of demarcation between misdemeanors and felonies will be more meaningful.