>>>>I have no problem if you want to pay to detain, retrain, diagnose, treat, house, feed, comfort, pay legal fees for, pay reparitions for (very important), and ensure nice amenities for career criminals as long as you and others who want this pay the bills and are held directly accountable for any future crimes these 'people' commit.
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>>>>I'll pay for a bullet (actually I'll make them) or provide the axe to eliminate them permanently or a rubber ducky thay can be dropped off outside of territorial waters in a current that takes them away from the US. I'll help with the labor to put these to use.
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>>>>I DO NOT CHOOSE TO PAY BECAUSE SOMEONE DECIDES TO BE A CRIMINAL. YOU WANT THEM, YOU PAY FOR THEM.
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>>>I don't want dangerous people walking the streets, but if as a society, we decide to throw people away because they commit a series of minor crimes, we're wasting their potential. There are some people whose crimes are so horrible that they need to be locked away where they can't hurt anyone again. But most criminals don't fit into that category and if we ran our justice system properly, I believe most of them can become productive members of society.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Put together a voluntary foundation/charity/organization that takes care of those you claim are't all that bad. Make sure that YOU are responsible for consequences if those people get out again. Absolutely guarantee the safety of the public from them.
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>>Make sure I don't have my pocket picked to pay for any of it.
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>>Then I'll support your decision.
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>>OK?
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>No, not OK. By forming a society, we create a social compact. One of the facets of that compact is that we have a justice system; ours is supposed to both protect society and rehabilitate offenders. We're not doing a very good job of either. It's my contention (and certainly not mine alone) that doing a better job of the second would give us better results in the first.
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>More to the point of your message, that's like you saying that if I think we should educate all children, I should form a private organization to do it and keep you out of it. Education is also a part of our social compact. You don't get to pick and choose and only pay for the parts that you like.
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>Tamar

There is a difference between trying to educate a young, innocent mind and trying to educate a person who doesn't care to learn anymore.

Conclussion, get them while their still young. WHATEVER it takes to discipline and teach young kids before they get corrupted by liberals. :)