tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845702870928214135.post1563565753193533535..comments2024-01-16T17:28:27.975-05:00Comments on Anything Goes: Crimes & PunishmentBob Rozakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02053075963359182633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845702870928214135.post-35743816477535517592009-07-01T17:53:51.706-04:002009-07-01T17:53:51.706-04:00Bob,
First off, this is my first post here. Didn&...Bob,<br /><br />First off, this is my first post here. Didn't even know you had a blog until I saw mention of it in Chuck Dixon's forums. One of the happiest days of my adolescent life in the late 70's was getting my question published by the Answer Man himself. Glad you're on the web.<br /><br /><br />OK, as for Madoff... doubtless, he's a dirtbag, and deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail, but I think the amount of sentence was pandering to the public. The Enron chief got 24 years. 25 or so would have been about right for Madoff, but I think that this is all academic as the guy probably wont live that long simply because's he's old as it is. The guys is 71. Will he live to 95 or 96? Probably not. I always thought things like 100+ year sentences were ridculous. If you're putting a vampire in jail, OK, otherwise, you're just pandering to the public. If his crime was that bad, I'd much rather we just hang the guy.<br /><br />As for the Nichols thing, citing religious conflicts is an old way of getting your diet improved in prison. IIRC, Ted Bundy even changed to Hinduism to avoid the mystery meat that prisoners are served. The courts made the prison give him a vegetarian diet after his conversion.DesScorphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13618044103867835644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845702870928214135.post-49054980204790657712009-06-26T16:12:46.569-04:002009-06-26T16:12:46.569-04:00I think we should bring back public displays of ta...I think we should bring back public displays of tar and feathering for cases like Madoff. <br />Now that's good tv.<br /><br />And Nichols reminds me more and more of Charlie Manson. Maybe not as crazy, but they definitely waited in the same line for crazy, if there were a waiting line that dealt in crazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com