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August 26, 1996
#
# "I want the Military to expand its use of technology, including
# reconnaissance and satellites and area surveillance and listening
# posts...and call the National Guard to move in," said Presidential
# candidate Bob Dole.
#
# "In the Dole Administration, we're going to return to what works. We're
# going to replace the President's inattention to dangerous drugs with a
# clear and forceful policy of zero tolerance."
#
# "That's ZERO TOLERANCE."
#
# "ZERO TOLERANCE for drug smugglers. ZERO TOLERANCE for drug pushers.
# ZERO TOLERANCE for drugs in the workplace and drugs in school. And
# ZERO TOLERANCE for illegal drugs, period."
#
# "ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!"
#
# "We will REDOUBLE our efforts to put drug criminals behind bars."
#
# "We will only appoint judges who will throw them in jail."
Thank Gawd he didn't become President.
* July Fourth, 1997, C-SPAN Congressional Television
*
* Mark Klaas, father of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, who was murdered by a
* repeat-offender that was paroled from prison, said in support of prevention
* programs: "Building more prisons to fight crime is like building more
* cemeteries to fight the spread of AIDS. It's a bad quick fix. Police
* chiefs across the country support [me] this 4 to 1. Unfortunately, Congress
* can't act "soft" on crime, and is about to pass a very bad bill on
* juvenile crime."
More bizarre distortions in our social fabric due to Zero Tolerance:
6/10/97 MSNBC: California: a ten-year-old girl who reported a classmate
for having a joint was also suspended by the principal, under the school's
Zero Tolerance for drugs
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