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412. Most cheering / most nauseating

By Joel Jacobsen

Earlier this week the New York Times published a cheering article about the criminal justice system, observing--forty or fifty years late--that what's conventionally considered the "left" position on crime is indistinguishable from the "right."  The headline was: "Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice," but the article itself was an updating of the old joke about law school, where the dean tells the assembled first year students, "Look to the right of you.  Look to the left.  In three years, there won't be any left left." Norman L. Reimer of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is quoted as saying: "The left and the right have bent to the point where they are now in agreement on many issues. In the area of criminal justice, the whole idea of less government, less intrusion, less regulation has taken hold...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).