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Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:00 AM

If criminal penalties are removed, what will deter lawbreaking by political officials?

The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus advocates the ultimate self-contradictory claim: we need to forget about prosecutions in order to "ensure it never happens again"
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  • Sunday, December 21, 2008 08:58 AM

    Restorative Justice

    Is one of the options being kicked around - a truth and reconciliation commission that would not lead to prosecutions, but to healing.

    This smacks of the "understanding and therapy" Rove said liberals wanted to extend to terrorists after 9/11. Democrats were terribly offended by that and "stressed that they were nearly unanimous in supporting Bush in congressional votes on his response to the Sept. 11 attacks and his decision to go to war in Afghanistan." (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8324598/)

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