tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post6569991554962583522..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Uncaging America requires 'a thousand smaller sanities'Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-19151291402015181712012-01-30T13:59:43.225-06:002012-01-30T13:59:43.225-06:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvAvqqTiHkY this ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvAvqqTiHkY this link to the tribute to Prof. Stuntz is the most inspiring internet item I've listened to for a long time. If you haven't read the reviews of Prof. Stuntz' book, do so. And get the book, I just did. Plus I let my representative know about it. Maybe there is hope that sanity can be restored to the system. It is obvious Prof. Stuntz will be missed by his colleagues and IMO criminal law has lost a great voice.Texas Mavericknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-40743550430716529692012-01-30T11:45:38.699-06:002012-01-30T11:45:38.699-06:00A thousand points of light, then.
With specifi...A thousand points of light, then.<br /> With specific procedure, you are in for a ride when those administering the procedure are incompetent or sell out.<br /> There's where a jury was supposed to protect you from the judge and his owners.<br /> For those in power to fight that, society was dumbed down, and juries are picked to pieces. Today you may be better off fighting a judge trial on procedure (and whether he's doing ANY of his magisterial duties, has an oath, etc.), than to go before a totally-ignorant and easily-manipulated jury. Tough crowd.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808884177035705472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-10550297401976202612012-01-29T18:36:54.056-06:002012-01-29T18:36:54.056-06:00Grits,
Note Gpnick's article has been linked...Grits, <br /><br />Note Gpnick's article has been linked by a number of serious, widely read conservative sites. Most thoughtful people in this country are becoming fed-up with the current criminal justice system.<br /><br />I loved this line from Gopnick.<br /><br />"Conservatives don’t like this view because it shows that being tough doesn’t help; liberals don’t like it because apparently being nice doesn’t help, either."<br /><br />Precisely perfect. <br /><br />But, frankly, outside of a few paleolithic gasbags on the Right, I don't know anyone on my side of the aisle content with an out of control, SWAT-happy bureaucracy answerable to seemingly no one.<br /><br />The prison industry has become very large and menacing to more than just a few civil libertarians.Texpathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038611956673414023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-61483694581951771492012-01-29T09:25:02.328-06:002012-01-29T09:25:02.328-06:00Boy howdy!!!! Grits you said a mouthful. Why are ...Boy howdy!!!! Grits you said a mouthful. Why are we incarcerating people? It sure isn't to make the state safer, it's to satisfy the need for votes. <br /><br />Please tell me what good it does to incarcerate a person for driving drunk and smashing into another vehicle or even a building. Wouldn't it make more sense to make them clean up the mess and to go talk to citizens groups about the hazards of driving drunk? <br /><br />Of course, that would take some initiative on the prosecutor's part to even recommend something like that to the judge. And while some judges do think things through, lots of them could care less, just get this drunk out of my courtroom. I know, let's send him to AA and let those other drunks deal with him.RSO wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125370082588943280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-51264168511840914882012-01-29T08:48:42.087-06:002012-01-29T08:48:42.087-06:008:19, given that Texas already releases more than ...8:19, given that Texas already releases more than 70K inmates from TDCJ facilities every year, that's been pretty much the GOP/Rick Perry approach. Perhaps instead of "turn them loose," it's time to reconsider who gets incarcerated in the first place.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-47455308632209286162012-01-29T08:19:10.237-06:002012-01-29T08:19:10.237-06:00Turn them loose!Turn them loose!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-62344107271563143352012-01-28T15:05:34.664-06:002012-01-28T15:05:34.664-06:00Unfortunately, the "Thousand smaller sanities...Unfortunately, the "Thousand smaller sanities" do not make eye catching headlines for politicians, indeed any politician who would dare address problems with realistic solutions would probably be lambasted in the press.Paul-UKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54318881276534579992012-01-28T08:04:48.677-06:002012-01-28T08:04:48.677-06:00Gopnik is one of the saner voices on this subject....Gopnik is one of the saner voices on this subject. As a Baptist with a heritage of religious liberty as a foundational principle of our beliefs, I am not ready to give up the first amendment, however. I know the long, bloody, and tortuous battle that eventuated in John Leland and James Madison's agreement for the need of that amendment. I think Gopnik's incremental approach is a practical course. How about if good time and work time actually counted toward parole consideration?David Enoreply@blogger.com