HIST 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Qatar Foundation, Criminal Defenses, Gallows
24 Feb 2014
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Today"s rant: too often, when the road towards good policy is paved with disaster, Canada is the first to get on it: we learn 5 years after the americans that it"s not working, especially in this neoconservative time, we"ll see it with gun control, crime bill. If you build more prisons, you"ll bankrupt yourself that"s what happened to california they let go of 60,000 people because they were non-violent drug offenders. The quick fix is to throw out a slogan, political dogma, count on the fact that your constituency will accept that, but not actually exerting political will: another article: quoting lincoln"s inauguration (his address) After civil war, 700,000 americans had died. Even-handed stoic approach: though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection better angels of our nature . No wonder we have problems with criminal law we don"t speak with such sagesse. Think about what our society is showing about itself listen to.
