Re: Fwd: Dr. Ian Irvine's review of Damien Broderick

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 22:25:16 MST


Damien wrote:

> And so far, by a strange stroke of luck, I haven't actually ended up in
> jail, not even the privatized kind... Ironically, the forbidding bluestone
> monstrosity of a jail down my own street, Pentridge Prison, is currently
> being retrofitted into a walled enclave (they haven't even had to pull
down
> the razor wire) of bright and very expensive housing for the moderately
> wealthy... :)

Wow, the irony indeed. I guess, as you criminalise an increasing proportion
of the population, it eventually becomes cheaper to put the "law abiding
citizens" inside the walls. A fitting solution.

Emlyn



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