the prison guards remind me of the elite police force in Jack London's dystopian novel, THE IRON HEEL. Of course, in that novel, they're the guards for everyone, not just people in jail. (Hmm... makes me think of the LAPD.)
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > >> Hey, it's California's version of military Keynesianism! >> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> ...The [prison guard] union also criticized Schwarzenegger for not >>> exempting its members from >>> an executive order intended to reduce pay for tens of thousands of state >>> employees to deal with the state's budget crisis. > > When "peace officers" don't get paid the fan is fecundized. You got food? > They take it. You got gas? They take it. You got crystal, they take it. They > got guns. > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
