Letters to the Editor
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Sarcasm aside
What I really mean to say is this prosecutorial grandstanding shows a lack of respect for everyone who has died from terrorist acts, because it equates property loss with loss of life.
But this is where we are now. How did Eliot Spitzer build his career? He made his bones as a hardass prosecutor.
If the warrior-prosecutor personality trait is what we reward in our political ecosystem, then all of our political animals will evolve in this hardass overcharging opportunistic direction.
I think both Democrats and Republicans share the blame for this phenomenon.
The Democrats abandoned liberalism and humanism in the nineties so they could pander to the tough on crime crowd.
They enabled the Republicans and the Republicans took that power and pushed it to the limit and now here we are.