Reply #59: I agree with you. Much as I despise what they have done, I cannot [View All]

[Catrina]

feel good about anyone going to prison in this country. That's another issue, I know, and certainly Libby, Cheney et al showed no such compassion for the Iraqis they rounded up and tortured and kept in jail under the worst conditions.

Still, for some reason, I don't see Libby as the worst of them. I also hate the prison system here, and am also a little supersticious about feeling gleeful when even someone who has caused so much harm is headed there. They were so certain that 'hard time' was what criminals deserved. They never dreamt it could happen to them.

Prisons are not about rehabilitation, thanks to Republicans. I wonder if Libby, Abramoff, Kidan, Cunningham, Scanlon et al wish now they had let those bleeding heart liberals do something about the prison system?

This might be a good time to introduce some prison reform legislation ~ I'm sure there are many Republicans who know they are headed there now. They were always good at passing bills that benefitted them. I think this is an issue they might be willing to take on right now.

there is a flood in the affairs of men, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

Maybe this is the time ~