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Criminal enterprises live on

Fri., April 27, 2012

It’s a good thing we have a 30-strikes-and-you’re-out law, rather than that three-strikes myth we supposedly have. Otherwise, career criminals wouldn’t have careers, all of those lawyers and judges who perpetuate revolving-door justice would be in the unemployment line, and the police could quit whining about arresting the same offenders over and over again.

Can you say job security?

Randy Laird

Spokane

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