"Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au> noted:
> Actually, on a planet-wide basis, I think you'd find
that "law
> enforcement" techniques have not changed so much
after all. And I doubt
> that they have completely disappeared from
Western-style democracies
> altogether. Those techniques were still being used
in my (younger) day
> in this part of the world, 20 years ago, and
presumably some people who
> used them are still working in the biz, despite
several corruption
> inquiries going back decades.
Here in the States, innocent convicts keep surfacing, even on
death row.
Our latest political debacle has
reminded us, via op-ed essays, what segregation really
was--beyond denial of education and access to anything else a
reasonable person might want, thousands of little laws, like
textile factory workers of different races in South Carolina
weren't allowed to look out the same windows on their way to
and from the work floor.
And as a woman of a certain age, I
personally was denied a promotion for which I was highly
recommended by my boss and his boss--to underwriter trainee,
no heavy lifting required--for the sole stated reason that I
was female. People under 40 find this hard to believe because
they never saw the male and female help-wanted pages.
No, I hardly ever get nostalgic for
the good old days, even at this time of year.
Joy, who wishes you all a merry Christmas
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