February 16, 2006
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Boy, was I wrong!!!
About Harry Whittington–you know, the guy who was shot in the heart by Dick “Deadeye” Cheney. I was talking about the shooting with my wife the other day and I observed that since the guy was a friend of Chney’s he was probably a war criminal and deserved to have been shot. Nope. Turns out he was pretty decent, for a Republican, especially on the crime issue.
As a member of both the Texas Board of Corrections and the bonding authority that builds prisons, he knew something about the penal system. He knew that the severity of sentences has no effect on crime. A direct quote from him:
“Prisons are to crime what greenhouses are to plants.”
Right on! Get well soon.
Credit–thanks and a tip of the Greyfox fedora to Molly Ivins, who supplied the above information in one of her most excellent syndicated columns.
Comments (2)
Molly is one of the ultra-trustworthy elite in a generally trustworthy profession.
ditto on the get-well wishes
That whole incident in ridiculous, and I believe Cheney needs to get thrown into one of those criminal greenhouses. If he could figure out his story, keep it strait, and act like a decent human being.. what am I saying? He’s a politician!! tsk tsk..