![]() I listened with great emotion to a CBS program on the American teenager in Singapore who will be caned for vandalism. This so-called "crime-bill president" has another couple of calls to make, wouldn't you think? What do you think about the message to this world? President Clinton pleads for leniency for a convicted felon in Singapore, while "Americans" murder two innocent Japanese for not "giving up their car." Perhaps if children were held quite painfully accountable the first time, there wouldn't have been a second time, or a third, or a fourthCarolyn Gold, Clearwater Perhaps if our teenagers were subjected to the physical pain and public embarrassment of a public flogging, there would be less teenage crime (or any crime) to contend with. Pain does not teach anyone of any age anything. I'll be here in my kind of country, the United States. You'll be living in your kind of country. We don't need any more sick, abusive people in America. To everyone who supports Singapore's decision to abuse the body and mind of an American youth: Please pack up and move to Singapore. Re: Mike Royko's Let floggings begin, March 31. When this comes to be, the cruel justice some recommend for Michael Fay will be common practice, and democracy, no more than a memory. ![]() ![]() If the public doesn't have the stomach for the demanding task of reforming our troubled institutions, we shall continue to find that our choices, like those in totalitarian Singapore, are proscribed by a parochial elite. In the long term, we need to attack the sources of crime, foremost among which are poverty and the destruction of the American family. Parole qualifications need to be tightened and made uniform. In the near term, we need to build enough prisons to ensure that hardened criminals will not be released for lack of space. We can't ship our criminals to Singapore, or otherwise exile them as a recent letter suggested. The time has come for Americans to realize that no one else is going to do the difficult work of self-government for us. ![]()
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