I hope you'll read the article-- it's quite impressive, and very firm about everyone in a society being part of it, very specifically including prisoners, their families, and their communities.
As for the interesting to me but not as generally important matter of what you think of libertarians, I really think you're not doing the subject justice. Radley Balko at The Agitator seems to be libertarian, has done tremendous work on justice system outrages (mostly in the war on drugs, but also investigating over-aggressive prosecutors and lying forensics), and doesn't seem fannish.
The article about the US being addicted to imprisoning people was published at the Cato Institute, the premier libertarian think tank.
Just like any significant chunk of the left, libertarianism includes people with a range of ideologies.
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Date: 2009-03-13 12:45 am (UTC)As for the interesting to me but not as generally important matter of what you think of libertarians, I really think you're not doing the subject justice. Radley Balko at The Agitator seems to be libertarian, has done tremendous work on justice system outrages (mostly in the war on drugs, but also investigating over-aggressive prosecutors and lying forensics), and doesn't seem fannish.
The article about the US being addicted to imprisoning people was published at the Cato Institute, the premier libertarian think tank.
Just like any significant chunk of the left, libertarianism includes people with a range of ideologies.