Thread: Death Penalty
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Old 09-27-2012, 08:46 AM   #2
Spexxvet
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
How do you justify the cost of keeping Charles Manson alive?
Entertainment value. When they trot him out every ten years on 60 minutes, his appearance and sound bites has us all talking for days.
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You sound like Karl Rove.
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I could be wrong, but I think he's referring to the 1% doctrine

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Vice President Dick Cheney describes the Bush administration's doctrine on dealing with terrorism:[3]
“ If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response. ”
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