Appropos to My Comments from Yesterday
Glenn Reynolds has a post about the criminalization of too many things. In it he mentions his time on the state of Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice Reform Commission (see excerpt below). It reminded me of the post I made June 1st on Hillary Clinton’s “we’re from the government and we’re here to help” speech.
Note the emphasized text in the excerpt:
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I also note that when I was on the state’s Juvenile Justice Reform Commission, I heard a lot of child-welfare authorities who testified make the same kind of excuses for the neglect or abuse of children in their care that they refused to accept from parents, etc. — we’re so busy, there’s not enough money, it’s not our fault they live in a building that’s old and unsafe, etc. As Reverend Lovejoy said, when the state does it, it’s not wrong! (emphasis mine)
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