tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post116048320651406756..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Think Pink?Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1160767526127070212006-10-13T14:25:00.000-05:002006-10-13T14:25:00.000-05:00Stupid comments aside...Why is it superficial? Yo...Stupid comments aside...<BR/><BR/>Why is it superficial? Your commentary reveals a failure to think it through.<BR/><BR/>How would your average ag. assault convict react to being clothed in jeans and a white beater, and clothed with people dressed the same? Contrariwise, how would that same person react to being put in a pink fuzzy one-piece?<BR/><BR/>What people see and do affects how they behave. Take away their dignity - in a non-violent, humiliating-but-not-dehumanizing way, and suddenly you have different outcomes.<BR/><BR/>And note the change in recidivism. You may be willing to be hard, to do the time, to get props for being willing to go down, but nobody wants to go back to being embarassed.<BR/><BR/>What a clever - albeit inarticulately defended - alternative means of behavior modification.<BR/><BR/>And in answer to 800 lb gorilla's sally:<BR/><BR/>Let's turn that around. What if we arrested Rove and put him a jail cell for treason (intentionally harming the state by conspiring to blow a NOC's identity in order to further a political agenda. Death? Well, I'd settle for life in prison... in pink), and put alongside him...<BR/><BR/>Hastert (endangering the welfare of minors; other crimes as I think of them. Obstruction?)<BR/>Cheney (well, impeach him first, and then get him on something. Lies under oath? Conspiracy to commit war under false pretenses?)<BR/>Bush (too many to count. Criminal negligence. Negligent homicide. Treason. Violation of his oath.)<BR/>... <BR/>but we weren't being political in this thread, were we?Joe Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09153513143712997156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1160516046840273712006-10-10T16:34:00.000-05:002006-10-10T16:34:00.000-05:00In more barbaric lands, convicts are often forced ...In more barbaric lands, convicts are often forced to dress in drag and put on cabaret skits for their penal overlords' amusement. And they never get to watch the Warden's daughter wash the old Mustang in a string bikini.<BR/><BR/>God Bless America!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1160501465369270742006-10-10T12:31:00.000-05:002006-10-10T12:31:00.000-05:00Straigt out of the Joe Arpallo book on crime deter...Straigt out of the Joe Arpallo book on crime deterrence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com