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- From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- Subject: Electronic Monitoring (Was: A Hopeful Sign)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001728.6382@noao.edu>
- Originator: forgach@gemini.tuc.noao.edu
- Sender: news@noao.edu
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
- References: <BxroFF.Cn4@world.std.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:17:28 GMT
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- From article by rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker):
- >
- > I have a modest proposal. Two and a half years jail time imposes a
- > consider expenditure upon the folks of Massachussetts, and this in itself
- > may tempt some activists to risk the jail term. What I have in mind is to
- > use this new electronic bracelet to confine clinic burners to their homes.
- > If they wander, then shoot'em. This works out best for both sides. For
- > the Christian Martyrs it is a way to be with De Lawd, and for the rest of
- > us it is good riddance.
-
-
- You're a bit behind the times, Robert. Electronic Monitoring is what alot
- of folks, including my husband, do for a living. Yup. He tags criminals like
- bears. Only it's not bracelet, it's an anklet. And you are gravely mistaken
- to assume breaking curfue while on EM would bring one capital punishment.
- It only earns one a return to jail. (Oh yeah.)
-
- SF
-