On 12/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quite true. But there is no guarantee that south central LA will be reclaimed<br>to civilization simply by outlawing drugs.</blockquote><div><br>("by legalizing drugs", I assume you meant?) <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The National Guard needs to surround<br>the entire area, and drive all suspected gang members into concentration camps<br>and restore order. Then one by one, those found not guilty of belonging to<br>gangs can be released.
</blockquote><div><br>Lee, I agree with much of what you say, and I certainly think treating terrorists as if they were soldiers of a civilized nation is wrong. If a man is found _after fair trial_ to be a terrorist, by all means let him be hanged forthwith.
<br><br>But suspending due process of law for your own citizens isn't just more of the same idea - it's a completely different kind of thing, and far more dangerous.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The alternative is to wait until slowly all of society looks the way it does there.</blockquote><div><br>I don't think that's the only alternative. I think there are better approaches. I think if:<br><br>the drug laws were repealed,
<br>the labor and business laws that make it illegal for large numbers of people to find work were relaxed enough so that everyone regardless of age, social status, academic background etc who wanted to earn an honest living could do so,
<br>the ghastly tower blocks were demolished and the government got out of the housing business,<br>existing laws against violent crime were enforced in a fair and unbiased manner,<br><br>things would improve enough that the perceived need for concentration camps would disappear.
<br><br>If all the above is tried and found to be insufficient, then by all means bring up the idea of concentration camps again, but I don't think they should be advocated until that time.<br></div></div>