Monday, November 11, 2002 :::
 

Incidentally, Truman's reason for commuting Collazo's sentence -- I don't feel obligated to link to posts from the day in which I respond to them -- was for not making Collazo a martyr. Carter's reason for pardoning him, of course, was that Carter is, well, the kind of person who wins the Nobel Peace Prize (or at least the better such type of person).

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the martyr argument. It makes more sense to me where there are very few -- e.g. one -- people under consideration who might inspire a potentially quite large number of vigilantes. Once you get a group of ten or twenty malefactors, or more, I think it's more valuable to let everyone know you're serious, and to relieve yourself of the need to keep maintaining this detritus in the prisons.

::: posted by dWj at 10:40 AM

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