Robert Corr does not like curfews:
A youth curfew is an ineffective, racist, stigmatising policy that should never have been introduced by a government that considers itself progressive.
If this story is true the pictured police officers should be fired, their bosses fired, and whatever excuse for a goverment Rob is referring to ought to be ousted. All after a ride in that cage these girls apparently were tossed into.
Please see TBOGG’s Brief History of Virginity. Best if viewed through to end.
Michelle Malkin has been, I think, a pretty consistent supporter of the bush administration. Today she closes her latest column with this:
Inslaw deserves to be compensated. More importantly, the American people deserve to know the truth: Did government greed and bureaucratic hubris lead to a wholesale sellout of our national security? The Bush White House’s credibility is on the line.
This is a very strong statement coming from Malkin. As described by her, the Inslaw Promis software theft and coverup goes back to 1982 so many administrations may have been aware and involved. Her point appears to be that if this story is true and if the bushies do not support a full and open investigation (please excuse the oxymoron) they will be as guilty as the rest. This might be a shock to Malkin. There are many others though who would see this as business as usual.
Bean, over at ALAS A Blog, is rightfully disturbed by the disproportionate sentences available in Oklahoma for the crime of domestic abuse (one year maximum) and the crime of “placing bodily fluid upon a government employee” (life sentence maximum). Go read how a jury gave a domestic abuser a more appropriate sentence than the statutory maximum. Do you have answers to his questions on disporportionality:
Why are government employees so much more important than the general pubic…?
Why are the sentences so disproportional. Do they really think that the possibility of transmitting a deadly disease by spitting is significantly worse than the risk of killing someone by abusing them?