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Unsheathe the final report, the digest of findings from the task force commission on is this really happening. |
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A lot of cant about law and order. |
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The daunting calculus of an enduring failure. |
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What must be tolerated? |
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What does it take to mitigate disaster? |
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And how long? |
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How long to file a shiv arrogant enough to puncture the great trust? |
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Whether red tape inquiries or blue ribbon initiatives, the race to the bottom crowns everyone for their efforts. |
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Skin the blubber on Walkerton and the Westray Mine and the muscle works are bleak. |
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At bone: the pumping mantra of mala prohibita and the obituary is complete. |
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Regulations with the shelf life of milk and rye. |
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And formal charges that of cut flowers. |
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Argued into obsolescence. |
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Interests valorized, benefits conferred. |
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The race to the bottom yields avenues of success. |
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But the race to the bottom is not without redress. |
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The hounds will be along soon. |
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One last goodbye to the spoils of failure. |
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One last goodbye to the stock rewards. |
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Here they come. |
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Criminal justice fails in order to project a particular image of crime. |
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[Jeffrey Reinman, "A Crime By Any Other Name"] |