Jim Mork correctly asserts that people often resort to accusations of PC when their debating skills are challenged.
People also resort to non sequiturs. Consider Wizard Mark's posting yesterday in regard to my concerns about Senator Linda Berglin: Peter: Yes, Senator Berglin has done a lot of good work on behalf of seniors, poor people and the environment. But all her accomplishments will soon go down the tubes as more funding is taken away from social and health care programs, as well as the environment, in order to support a massive prison industry that will only get larger as long as she and other politicians--liberal, centrist or conservative--call for more incarceration. Wizard: This is totally lack logic. Out in the golden arc--Plymouth/Minnetonka/Eden Prarie, home owners got a $5,000 tax break on their home real estate. For me, personally, this little gem cuts no new taxes/give back to the charmed could, but so far has not, cost the oxgenator that keeps me breathing in this kind of weather. This has been a good week around my section of the neighborhood, I haven't called in a 'shots fired' report to 911 in over 4 days. Not having a cell phone, I could not call in the three men beating the living crap out of a 4th guy that tied up the intersection of Lake and Park on Monday as I pulled up to the stop light. This summer we've had a firebombing of a store . . . Now I realize she goes on to talk about the need for chemical addiction treatment for people in prison, but that's several sentences later and by then I'm totally feeling like Eddie Albert on <Green Acres>, Anyhow, our prison system is mainly based on punishment, not rehabilitation, which is not cost-effective at all. And prisoners who have serious mental illnesses--and that includes much of the chemically addicted population--are given the cheapest drugs available, which is ineffective in treating the symptoms and causes many unpleasant side effects. Thank you, Susan Maricle for your wonderful post highlighting effective treatments in prison that will probably go by the wayside with more budget cuts, since our prison system is mainly focused on punishment. But I better stop while I'm a head. My compassion for thugs in prison is sounding way too PC.----Peter Schmitz CARAG TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
