Do Not Pass Go

Manuel, the last sentence of that article is very, very interesting:

Nagin warned Sunday that looters would be arrested and sent directly to prison.

What, no trial? I mean, I realize “legal niceties” simply get in the way of maintaining recht und ordnung… um, sorry, law and order … but this is a nifty approach. Get arrested, go straight to the big house, no muss, no fuss, only the ease of legal administration.

You know, prisoners sitting in cells are so, well, economically unproductive. Wouldn’t it simply be easier if in the future, the kinds of people who refuse to obey gummint orders, would simply get whisked away to special camps, I mean detention centers, where they can spend their days laboring for the good of society? You know, felling trees and quarrying rocks and digging canals?

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12:38 pm on September 2, 2008