Word: punished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misleading can be the emotions involved. So argues Psychiatrist Karl Menninger in this libertarian critique of American criminal justice. Menninger advances some notions that will anger many laymen. As Menninger sees it, Americans actually like crime: "We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. Criminals represent our alter egos, our 'bad' selves-rejected and projected. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do and, like scapegoats of old, they bear the burdens of our displaced guilt and punishment...
...tried. After the Ibo massacres, he offered concessions, but whatever he did was interpreted by Governor Ojukwu as one more sign of duplicity and hatred. On the one hand, it seemed, Gowon offered friendship, while on the other, the people he governed murdered Ibos. Gow- on was caught. Only punishing the Hausa mobs involved in the riots would have placated Ojukwu, but to punish Hausas when the bulk of the army was Hausa would have been political suicide...
...tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown them or actually torturing them. Some, like the famed Lefty Stackhouse, spend their fury on the nearest object...
...Olympic Committee knew Hoffman was in the stadium, talking to Smith's and Carlos's wives, and they saw it as an opportunity to punish him," Parker said...
...appeal to the courts, the American Civil Liberties Union called the law an unparalleled affront to the constitutional right to vote. It was, said the A.C.L.U. attorney, "repressive of the most fundamental freedoms of speech and assembly"; it attempts to punish by legislation without giving its intended victims "a modicum of procedures to defend themselves." In an amicus curiae memorandum, the Justice Department indirectly supported the A.C.L.U.'s case. It said that the Communist Control Act barred the party but not individual Communists from the ballot...