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    "relId": "2011/05/11/in-defense-of-flogging",
    "title": "In Defense of Flogging",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "tags": [
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            "href": "/tag/government/",
            "relId": "government",
            "title": "Government",
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    "created": "2011-05-11 17:27:13 UTC",
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        "2011-05-11 17:27:13 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The United States now has more prisoners than any other country in the world. Ever. In sheer numbers and as a percentage of the population. Our rate of incarceration is roughly seven times that of Canada or any Western European country. Despite our \u00e2\u0080\u009cland of the free\u00e2\u0080\u009d rhetoric, we deem it necessary (at great expense) to incarcerate more of our people, 2.3 million, than the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s most draconian regimes. We have more prisoners than China, and they have a billion more people than we do. We have more prisoners than soldiers; prison guards outnumber Marines.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.theagitator.com/2011/05/10/in-defense-of-flogging/\">In Defense of Flogging | The Agitator</a></em>. Paging Mr Heinlein; Mr Heinlein, please pick up your copy of Starship Troopers at the Rodger Young.</p>\n"
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