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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Frank in Raleigh"  wrote in message   
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   > "Jeff Strickland"  wrote in message   
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   >>   
   >> "Just Wondering"  wrote in message   
   >> news:52fbe71b$0$29743$862e30e2@ngroups.net...   
   >>> On 2/12/2014 1:15 PM, Peter Franks wrote:   
   >>>> A minor commits a crime, not only is the minor held   
   >>>> accountable, so is the parent.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, if a 17 year old gangbanger commits a murder, his 55 year old mother   
   >>> is sentenced to prison?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Sadly, if the gang banger is 17, his mother is more likely to be 35 than   
   >> 55. I'm not sure that it's proper to jail parents for the acts of the   
   >> minor children, but I fully support the notion that minors have fewer   
   >> rights than adults.   
   >>   
   >> I also buy into the idea that we need to return to punishment and not   
   >> rehabilitation. People, including minors, need to be punished for bad   
   >> deeds, and the punishment will rehabilitate. Put people in work camps and   
   >> make them toil away for 16 yours a day. F--- their self esteem. Make them   
   >> work.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I agree. no weight lifting and channel surfing. bring back breaking rocks   
   > and chain gang hard labor   
      
   Yep, and it should be noted that such punishments would be perfectly   
   Constitutional.   
      
   For any that doubt it, I refer you to the 13th Amendment which expresses a   
   far greater extent to which punishment is allowed.   
      
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