{"id":597,"date":"2005-12-13T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T03:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=597"},"modified":"2005-12-13T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T03:36:55","slug":"bye-bye-tookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye, Tookie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;m not a fan of the death penalty. Yaw, mynheer, it is so; I&#8217;d rather not fry your garden variety goblin (except, perhaps, in hot blood during a break-in) because, frankly, of the What If game. <\/p>\n<p>What the hell is that? The What If game is how I establish patterns for behavior. What if there is a god? Well, I&#8217;ll try to be a decent human. What if there isn&#8217;t? Well, it didn&#8217;t harm anybody to be a decent human, did it? What if there isn&#8217;t a heaven, isn&#8217;t a hell? then the only time a murderor has to suffer for his crime(s) is the moment he faces death. I&#8217;m all for letting them sit in prison and think about what they&#8217;ve done, and I&#8217;m also all for reminding them every day of the brutality of their crime. I don&#8217;t care if they get rehabilitated, because at some level I don&#8217;t think it makes any difference. I also don&#8217;t think Prison should be a place to hang wiht your buds. I installed machinery in prisons, and they can be run not only well but turn a profit- greenhaven in Upstate new york has shown a profit for dozens of years. It&#8217;s a cash cow for the state. Every prison should run like that, and every prisoner should work for his bread. No, it shouldn&#8217;t be horribly oppressive, but it should neither be easy. So tookie- though it galls me to say this, I&#8217;m on your side. Though, you would probably dislike my idea of how the rest of your life should be lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;m not a fan of the death penalty. Yaw, mynheer, it is so; I&#8217;d rather not fry your garden variety goblin (except, perhaps, in hot blood during a break-in) because, frankly, of the What If game. What the hell is that? The What If game is how I establish patterns for behavior. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}