RE: A Question for Tony Brown

["Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>]

Hmmmm.  Fascinating.  En e-mail supposedly signed by Gregory C. Dickison, yet posted (as evidenced in the To: block) by Tony Brown.

 

Nice try, Tony.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony C. Brown [mailto:tony@fcrjquaker.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 4:19 AM
To: gdickison@moscow.com; vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: A Question for Tony Brown

 

Gregory Dickson wrote:

 

I have been wading through some of the restorative justice stuff you have been sending out, and it appears to come down to this: crime makes people feel bad, the current criminal justice system makes people feel bad, so we need Restorative Justice to make people feel good.

 

I don't believe it is possible or appropriate to simplify the principles of restorative justice into a sound bite such as criminal justice makes people feel bad; Restorative justice makes people feel good. Restorative justice is a comprehensive answer to the complex problem of a criminal (retibutive)justice system which has been in a state of crisis for a very long time (huge budgets and overcrowed sy

 

 

Where do these various values you are promoting come from?

 

Cordially,

 

Gregory C. Dickison
Lawyer & Counselor at Law
Post Office Box 8846
312 South Main Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-4009

 

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