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#Cops, Courts, Crooks

    14-Oct-87 12:41:45
Sb: #Cops, Courts, Crooks
Fm: Marlene Zenker 76406,25
To: Ben Blish 72667,1341
Ben, I tend to agree stongly with your feelings though not necessarily with all of your soloutions. I do agree that prosecuting people for gambling and prostitution are a total waste of time and tax payer dollars. No one is forced to gamble or goto a prostitute and if they choose to do so that's their perogative. As to drugs, I don't totally agree with you. The answer isn't arresting the kid who is stoned out of their mind on whatever it's rooting out the dealers and organizations who bring drugs into this country. On an emotional level I would love to see murderers and rapists etc. die slowly in the most torturious way but practically speaking that isn't a great idea – why not just bring back the death penalty everywhere and get rid of them ASAP. There are cases where people are arrested, convicted and prosecute falsly – but for God sakes in crimes that are incredibly brutal where there are witnesses etc – get rid of them NOW. BTW, have you thought about the time, places and tax payer dollars necessary to support public death penalties – I mean we'd have to go back to crucifixion and then you would have to hire a union person to build the cross, another union person to put in in the ground, another to actually do the nailing .. Marlene