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   From: mcx@nospamyahoo.com   
      
   Like I suggested your suggestions of balancing act , are not working and   
   should not be acceptable  . If you don't count or can't count the cost   
   psychologically on people, the cost or toll  in  lose confidence  , lost   
   trust, lost family outing, lost neighborhoods, and  all the money we spend   
   in the criminal system can be better spent in technology , providing for   
   people , job creation, etc etc etc. if we can't we should ! Someday other   
   countries will do more then US and we won't even be second rate.Someday   
   other countries will see all the connections and learn to do the technology   
   part  and this will make the US a second rate country that happens to be   
   free. Freedom to kill should not be what America is about when they talk   
   freedom. I don't know if many of you know , but in many countries thats all   
   they talk about . We are a nation of hypocrites. Many people see us as a   
   totally violent nation ..   
   "Jeff nor Lisa"  wrote in message   
   news:de64863b.0310111718.35f4dfa3@posting.google.com...   
   > "mcs"  wrote   
   >   
   > > today a yg girl going to school was raped and beat. another child beat   
   on   
   > > the way home This is so sickening , we can't protect our children.   
   >   
   > You act like this is something new.   
   >   
   > I suggest you check out newspaper archives from many, many years ago,   
   > and you'll find this specific sort of thing is not new at all.   
   >   
   > Our criminal law and enforcement in our society is a compromise   
   > between individual rights, cost, and public safety.   
   >   
   > We could put a tracking chip inside every person at birth, then   
   > put scanners at every corner, thus tracking the movements of   
   > every person at all times.  With such a system we'd prevent a   
   > lot of crime.  Do you want this kind of system?   
   >   
   >   
   > There are a lot of unfit parents out there who shouldn't be   
   > raising kids to turn out to be such monsters.  BUT:  how does   
   > society determine who is "unfit"?  By whose rules?  Mine?  Yours?   
   > Art's?  Further, what would we do with the kids who we take away?   
   >   
   > You know, in past totalitarian societies they have super strict laws   
   > and secret police everywhere, and they STILL had problems like   
   > these.   
      
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