Reason Writers Around Town: Radley Balko on an Overlooked Campaign Issue
Despite a few vague and overstated references, Radley Balko writes in The Politico, criminal justice issues have thus far been conspicuously absent from the presidential campaign.
Comments to "Reason Writers Around Town: Radley Balko on an Overlooked Campaign Issue":
Elemenope | July 23, 2008, 3:04pm | #
Criminal justice is the third rail of American politics.As in: if you touch a just criminal system, you die.
The children and the victims and the victims that are children DEMAND INJUSTICE!!!
duster | July 23, 2008, 3:11pm | #
Why does Mr. Balko hate the children???Invisible Finger | July 23, 2008, 3:16pm | #
There's a darn good reason criminal justice is being ignored - it's a huge moneymaker for government. Expect to see continued growth in the federal criminal code and exponential growth in provisions calling for asset forfeiture. We'll stop just short of sacrificing your first-born, but we'll get him/her with compulsory national service anyway.ktc2 | July 23, 2008, 3:20pm | #
LOL. Yeah, like they're going to talk about justice. Law and punishment today are completely divorced from justice. It might turn out a just result occasionally but it's just a fluke.Colin | July 23, 2008, 3:26pm | #
Why the Justice League? No love for the Justice Society? :)I couldn't agree with you more Radley. Trouble is, when it comes to criminal justice, everything the Pols want to do, only makes matters worse.
ktc2 | July 23, 2008, 3:50pm | #
Good point Warren. We should be glad they're NOT talking about it.All they would do is jack up the sentences for victimless crimes and generally make things a lot worse.
kevrob | July 23, 2008, 4:08pm | #
To be fair, Colin, the gal rocking the fishnets is the Black Canary, who was a JSA member before joining the JLA in the very ish whose Infantino/Anderson cover is depicted.BC now even has her own Barbie!
Kevin
Criminal justice doesn't affect the candidates or the reporters. Presidential powers, wars, etc. do. So they have their focus.
Colin | July 23, 2008, 9:20pm | #
Kevin,What's funny, recently some chick on the NRO Corner was complaining about that Barbie, lamenting a culture that would allow such a thing. And then someone else posted that the Black Canary has been in comic books since 1947.
The Bearded Hobbit | July 23, 2008, 9:38pm | #
.. problem is, you have to ask questions where candidates have different views .. any of those questions asked of either of the two major candidates would get identical answers .. a hundred bux says that they wouldn't be the answers that anyone here wants to hear .... Discouraged Hobbit
.. btw, keep up the good work, Radley .. always look forward to your articles (although they usually tend to depress me)
.. BH
Alan Vanneman | July 23, 2008, 11:29pm | #
Forget Radley's "Twenty questions Obama and McCain are afraid to answer." Where's the link to the comic? I want to see the chick in the fishnets who can kick the JLA's ass!John in Nashville | July 24, 2008, 12:51am | #
"Criminal justice doesn't affect the candidates or the reporters."It damn sure affected John McCain's wife, who got a sweetheart deal for stealing Percocet and Vicodin from a charity.
On second thought, what affected Cindy McCain was far removed from justice.
Ben1 | July 30, 2008, 7:00pm | #
Alan Vanneman writes:...nothing to get excited about. She's just wearing pantyhose, the usual sweatbags, not real stockings. Poorly drawn, at that.
Forget Radley's "Twenty questions Obama and McCain are afraid to answer." Where's the link to the comic? I want to see the chick in the fishnets who can kick the JLA's ass!
However, here are a few far more interesting covers, not really SFW:
http://www.comicbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/dominatrix02-cover.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/pinup_goddess_cover.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/kd0duc.jpg
By the way, if anyone meets the clown who invented pantyhose, hold them down until I get there, please. No need to be gentle. Crimes against humanity, and all that.