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November 4, 2005
"REgress is the new "PROgress"...
Please tell me Las Vegas, Nevada can produce a better mayoral candidate for the next election than their current Mayor, Oscar Goodman. His recent suggestion for "solving" their graffiti problem leaves me shaking my head. An excerpt from this cnn.com article:
"In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes," Mayor Oscar Goodman said Wednesday on the TV show "Nevada Newsmakers."
Goodman said the city has a beautiful highway landscaping project and "these punks come along and deface it."
"I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb," the mayor said. "That may be the right thing to do."
Goodman also suggested whippings should be brought back for children who get into trouble.
How does this guy get to be the mayor of any town with a population in the double digits? I must have been at work when they repealed the Eighth Amendment from the Bill of Rights. You know, the pesky little clause about "cruel and unusual punishment". Possibly the most alarming thing about the Mayor's comment is that we're talking about a petty crime. How is a freaking landscape project more important than the self-worth of a human?
What punishment would Mayor Goodman propose for the inevitable copycat, the child who sees a perpetrators thumb amputation on TV, and then chops off the thumb of a playmate? Should we then gouge out the eyes of that child? I hope the citizens of Las Vegas turn out at the polls to give Mayor Goodman two thumbs down.
Posted by Anna at November 4, 2005 10:55 AM