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...although their craft may not be quite's scintillating as the more famous poets before and after their time, the minor poets Lonsdale has uncovered do add credence to the notion that as long as there is life there are always experiences for the fertile creative mind to commit to paper. Experiences that make fine reading. Edward King and Christopher Pitt will never be so celebrated as the Metaphysicals or the Romantics but they are significant because their ideas do project the country that impressed their minds. Lonsdale's will be a controversial book because he gives so much credence...
...CURRENT SYSTEM punishes all of us with a huge financial burden and the lost potential of human beings committed to a system which will surely ruin them. There are many reasons people commit crimes besides being inherently evil, Poverty, lack of education, hunger and drug habits are just a few. Yet our overcrowded prisons seem aptly designed to ensure that, whatever they are when they are incarcerated, people emerge the anti-social beasts we have ourselves they...
Which brings us to the third justification for imprisonment rehabilitation. But does locking people up in cages seem a good way to rehabilitate them? Certainly, it will score them, but we are operating from the promise that much of the reason that people commit crimes is that they either do not know better or cannot help themselves to be rehabilitation to be educated, to be given a chance adopt a new lifestyle...
Giving criminals another chance is not just a favor to them, it is a favor to all of us. Society as whole benefits when they no longer commit crimes and, instead of being a burden on the system, begin to contribute to the common weal. Is the beastial treatment we currently afford to prisoners the best way, or even any at all, to reform them...
QUOTE: "We do commit the U.S. to preventing the fall of South Viet Nam to Communism...