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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Too many people in this country do not trust authorities to use their discretion, and would rather address problems through rules. This same impulse gives us sentence guidelines, which take discretion away from judges (and give it to prosecutors, but few people understand that), and zero-tolerance policies, so that six-year-olds can be suspended from school for having butter knives in their backpack.
I don't think this is necessarily a conservative impulse, but it is consistent with the conservative attacks on government over the last couple of decades and with "get tough" politicians who put more energy into campaigning than into governing.
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I agree with this -- if we are going to protect against terrorism on airplanes, people are going to have to trust the government more. And get (meaning pay for) better TSA people.
