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Wait. . . he's less than three days old and he's already seen a lot? Reminds me of the prisoner who spent 15 years slowly, carefully digging a tunnel to escape, and when the day finally came, he went through his tunnel and came up in. . . a children's playground. He was so overwhelmed by being...

Yeah, I've been saying that for several posts. Nice of you to catch up.

Oddly, I'm not too worried about the racial aspect of the song. I'm well aware that hometowns are happy to murder anybody who stands out. But in much of the U.S., melanin is a clear "stands out" criterion. The song threatens lynching. I'm sure you're fine with that.

I'm not sure there were that many kids in the room during a House committee hearing.

Most of this board is rebab.

You are proposing, and I quote. . . I don't know what "nothing" means to you, but to me it means nothing. No books. No videos. No deck of cards No company. No human contact at all. No sensory input beyond staring at a bare concrete wall. That's torture. By comparison, hanging is kindness.

I'm totally good with it, if you can't hang him. But that's not what you proposed, was it?

The purpose of jails is fourfold. 1. It protects the innocent for a time from a person who has a demonstrated propensity to victimise the innocent. 2. The limitation on liberty is an undesirable consequence (negative reinforcement) to disincentivise the offender from re-offending. 3. The...

If he has no right to life, why not kill him? Torture (and what you propose is defined as torture) says more about the torturer than about his victim.

Sure. Vote Conservative (like you would ever do otherwise). Just ignore the fact that you're running a deficit now and START by cutting taxes.

No, you start by cutting services until the budget balances. Then you cut services and taxes to keep it balanced until you reach the service level you want and are willing to pay for. 1850 or so, I gather from the bitching on this board.

Have you read the rest of that verse? "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." --Matthew 5:38-39 (KJV)

So, deliberately inducing mental and emotional trauma? Well, at least you ain't killing 'em (quickly, anyhow).

Shoulda hanged him long ago, but Canada has chosen not to do that. When you've decided that the limitations on freedom of prison is a sufficient punishment, deliberately making the conditions harsher than cost and security require is cheap and hypocritical. I'm perfectly OK with "hard labor"...

What level of misery do you want to impose (or have other people impose) on Bernardo? That clearly being the goal of our commenters. "Security" is a lie. Y'all want torture.

Thinking small. Why not eliminate the Income tax and the GST?

I thought he was warning us about time travel.

Performed on the site of a notorious race lynching. A little early for the centennial.

I suggest a long-term study.

We've had a number of anti-abortion politicians and public figure who, through comments such as "Keep your legs together" and "You should have thought of that when. . ." make it clear that their intent is to punish harlots, or as Justice Brennan said in Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), they have...