From: Barking@The.Moon   
      
   > I would like you lurkers to read this Meat Beaters response to Chris.   
      
      
   Why would you want lurkers to read it ? If they have'nt got the balls to   
   post an opinion, then who cares if they read or not ? Dumbass ?   
      
      
   > Now picture yourself working a cellblock of about 100 crimms (all of whom   
   > are innocent, you know).  Basically, you're a glorified babysitter because   
   > half these guys need to be taught how to count to ten (but by god, they   
   can   
   > make homebrew out of a rotting chunk of turd and a pack of sugar).   
      
      
   Now, picture yourself on a large yacht, cruising the gulf, and spending all   
   that money that you got from your cushy union job, complaining about the   
   felons you abuse, and tossing beer bottles into the ocean.   
      
      
   > Now out of your 100 charges, about 5 of them are going to be like Lefty   
   (or   
   > "critter" or whatever he calls himself now) - howling and screaming,   
   whining   
   > and bellyaching about whatever inane crap he can think of to blabber   
   about.   
   > Mostly, he's a stooge for the real convicts who are busy plotting some   
   > devious shit, and he's the guy who is supposed to keep you distracted from   
   > catching them.  Now you know this, but you really can't ignore him because   
   > the minute you do, he goes whining to your Lieutenant or the Captain   
   > complaining that he was begging you for toilet paper - but you ignored   
   him -   
   > which caused him to have to shit his pants which is in violation of his   
   8th   
   > Amendment Rights - yadda, yadda, yadda (I'll bet those of you who aren't   
   COs   
   > think I'm making this shit up, huh?).   
      
      
   Hey man - gimme some damn toilet paper. NOW! or I'll whine to your boss.   
      
      
   > So here you are dealing with this slab of human jetsam....hour after   
   > hour....day after day....   
      
   Jerking off when no-one is looking, and,   
      
   > Back in the old days, you'd just take him out back and whip the cat piss   
   out   
   > of him and be done with it.  But in our new and improved, high tech   
   prisons   
   > where everything is video recorded and we have effectively brainwashed all   
   > the staff into being snitches for the Admin, you can't do that.   
      
   But boy you sure wish ya could. So ya settle for the next best thing, like   
   "accidents" and "suicides" and cool stuff.   
      
   > Can you guarantee that after about 5 years of putting up with his mouthy   
   > bullshit that you wouldn't lose your temper one day and kick him right in   
   > his coochie?   
      
   Why kick it when you can lick it ?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)