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Also, a pair of articles on juvenile crime: One criticizes the recent trend to charge kids as adults and confine them with adult prisoners, saying that such Draconian treatment hardens rather than reforms young criminals.
Both parties support the drug war and its attendant police-state apparatus--no-knock raids, forfeiture of property of people who haven't been convicted of anything, Draconian sentences, peeing on command as a requirement for getting or holding jobs, etc.--the latest thing is they want to inflict on Florida a genetically engineered fungus that's supposed to kill marijuana plants, although no one can guarantee it won't be an ecological disaster; these people are crazy!
Or at the Draconian investigations of the press conducted by Special Counsel Steve Brill.
Among the four pages of rules are these: women must smile and wear makeup at all times, any woman caught chewing gum gets an $80 fine, and then there's the draconian Rule 29--"if any girl gets three complaints, she must immediately resign."
The editorial concluded: "A survey this week shows that fewer than 6 per cent of Muscovites want a draconian state of emergency.