--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a total non-sequatar. What does Rudi's > poltics (or more precisely > Rudi's political ambitions) have to do with Brin's > assertion that Clinton > promulgated techniques developed in New York (as I > remember it the police chief > Braton - a democrat - was the chief archtiect of > this policy? Rudi and Bratton > fell out over Bratton (at least in Rudi's mind) > taking too much credit. This > is a problem with some of your arguements. Rather > than refute Brin's > statement that crime went down under Clinton, you > make a clever but irrelevant > comment.
The problem with my arguments, Bob, is that they imply that some Republicans haven't sold their soul to Satan, and you and the good doctor can't handle that. Fairly obviously, it's a little odd to claim that Rudy Giuliani's achievements, the achievements of a Republican, based on techniques that the local and national Democratic parties viciously attacked him for, don't redound to the credit of the party that supported him, elected him, and helped him implement them. As for the argument that Clinton promulgated them - that's just an example of Dr. Brin's bizzarre Presidential-centric view of the American government. "Broken windows" policing was an idea that James Wilson had long before Clinton, that Rudy advocated long before Clinton, and that was adopted by lots of big city police departments across the country because it worked, not because the Clinton Justice Department (which wasn't exactly enthusiastic about it, actually) somehow encouraged it. The federal government has exactly nothing to do local policing at that tactical a level, and claiming that (say) the drop in the crime rate in Boston was because Janet Reno told the Boston Police Department to follow Rudy's example is like tattooing "I don't understand the basics of American government" on your forehead. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
