Governor Romney has problems
May. 3rd, 2004 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosSo Romney, of course, wants to bring back the death penalty in Massachusetts as part of his "I'm governing a liberal state? Whatever. I don't care about my constituency. This is what I want" program.
So the panel finally has a proposal, which Romney's going to present in a press conference tonight. Then they hope to turn this into a bill.
And the proposal that they're presenting? Well, the panel says that they've come up with a system that is "as infallible as humanly possible."
Um. I think I sorta see the problem with it already.
(Amusing but random, this quote from the mlive article: "The report recommends using science, especially DNA evidence, to corroborate guilt." Gosh. I love it when I can use science! Science can solve all of our problems. *nodnod*)
So the panel finally has a proposal, which Romney's going to present in a press conference tonight. Then they hope to turn this into a bill.
And the proposal that they're presenting? Well, the panel says that they've come up with a system that is "as infallible as humanly possible."
Um. I think I sorta see the problem with it already.
(Amusing but random, this quote from the mlive article: "The report recommends using science, especially DNA evidence, to corroborate guilt." Gosh. I love it when I can use science! Science can solve all of our problems. *nodnod*)
no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 12:56 pm (UTC)As far as I remember, DNA testing is only valid evidence for proving that somebody didn't commit a crime. Using it to prove that sombody did is something completely different.
Sometimes I hate people.
no subject
Date: 2004-05-04 07:21 am (UTC)Just remember that science can solve ALL your problems. We can trust in science!
Sometimes I feel like a lot of our politicians live in the fifties. With A Boy's Book of Atomic Power comics. Or maybe they live in fifties comic books. Have a problem? Don't know how to work out an answer? Solve it with "science"!
"We tested the kryptonite with science and now we know that it came through a meteor cloud, making it gold, and that's why it affects you the way it does, Superman!"
Then you don't have to know the details.
(Actually, they still do that in some comic books, but the attitude of said politicians is definitely more 50s Marvel than Ultimate X-Men.))