That's a GREAT point about parole making it cheap to make something criminal. I never
thought of it that way before!
That being said, in a Libertarian society, I'd not mind parole, so long as the person
voluntarily signed away the rights that were being disposed of in favor of physical
freedom. In a Libertarian society though, you'd see a DAMNED lot fewer things that
are illegal.
Subbie
I'm curious what types of felonies you've committed. If they're nothing more than
drug use and the like, I don't care.
: At 2:39 PM -0700 7/4/01, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
: >Inchoate wrote:
: >
: >> 'routine search'? Remind me never
: >> to go to Ohio.
: >
: >It's every state of the Union. Parolees are still prisoners. Just as you
: >can search a prisoner's cell, a parole officer can search a parolee's house.
:
: The entire parole process is itself an open sore on our justice system. It's turned
:into a control system, a "force magnfication" scheme. Instead of actually having to
:_jail_ all of the people, they release them early, take away their key Bill of Rights
:protections (2nd, 4th, etc., including the vote) and have them as virtual slaves of
:the system.
:
: From an economic/libertarian point of view, what this has done is to alter the
:costs of making things criminal. Standard economic theory: making more people
:criminals doesn't cost much, and makes them more malleable. As so many people have
:said so pithily, "At the rate they're going, we'll _all_ be felons." And felons don't
:need no steenking constitutional rights.
:
: Were Orwell writing today, he'd probably replace his "proles" with "parolees." And
:the cameras in each room would merely be part of the parole process.
:
: One of the biggest concerns Keith Henson had in his probable 6-month sentence in his
:case (which is another issue) is that he was likely to receive a 5-year probation
:term, during which his house could (and likely would) be entered at any time, day or
:night, and during which period his private files and records would be scrutinized for
:any thoughtcrimes which could be used to send him back for a longer period. (Which
:happened with both Bell and Parker.)
:
: As a felon myself, and one who committed a dozen or so felonies each carrying 3-year
:terms just last week, I realize how the entire probation/parole process is what Big
:Brother really likes the most about our so-called justice system.
:
: --Tim May
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