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Populism can display both good and bad qualities. Huey Long transformed the state of Louisiana, aiding thousands of poverty-stricken and poorly educated citizens. Yet at the same time, he nearly became an American despot...
Such blind advocacy of "free speech" is not limited to Howard. At Harvard, the Institute of Politics (IOP) two years ago extended an invitation to Louisiana-based bigot David Duke as part of a series of addresses by presidential candidates. At the time, IOP student leaders argued that they were forced out of fairness to invite Duke because they had invited all the other candidates to speak. Fortunately, Duke rejected the invitation...
Martin re-examined Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde through the eyes of the doctor's housemaid in her 1990 novel Mary Reilly. The author reaches into a fictional past again, combining the stories of Ellen and Camille with an account of a notorious 19th century Louisiana "catwoman." When the body of this woman's plantation-owner husband was found with his throat ripped away, she was calmly playing the piano, her hands, dress and mouth covered with blood...
...getting tough resulted in public safety, Louisiana citizens would be the safest in the nation. They're not. Louisiana has the highest murder rate among states. Prison, like the police and the courts, has a minimal impact on crime because it is a response after the fact, a mop-up operation. It doesn't work. The idea of punishing the few to deter the many is counterfeit because potential criminals either think they're not going to get caught or they're so emotionally desperate or psychologically distressed that they don't care about the consequences of their actions...
...John Whitley agrees that many older prisoners here could be freed tomorrow with little or no danger to society. Release, however, is governed by law or by politicians, not by penal professionals. Even murderers, those most feared by society, pose little risk. Historically, for example, the domestic staff at Louisiana's Governor's mansion has been made up of murderers, hand-picked to work among the chief-of-state and his family. Penologists have long known that murder is almost always a once-in-a-lifetime act. The most dangerous criminal is the one who has not yet killed...