Capital Punishment for Traffic Violations

“About ten years after Steve Martin decanted his line about capital punishment for traffic infractions, Russian expatriate comic Yakov Smirnov explained that the difference between Soviet and American police officers could be summarized in two words: ‘Warning shots.’  ‘I like how American police fire warning shots to stop a fugitive,’ Smirnov said in a standup routine circa 1984. ‘In Russia, the police simply shoot the guy, and say that’s a warning to everybody else.’  Thirty years later, Smirnov’s gibe is obsolete — not merely because the Soviet Union is long dead, but also because America’s ‘local’ police have become thoroughly Sovietized.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/capital-punishment-for-traffic-violations/

“About ten years after Steve Martin decanted his line about capital punishment for traffic infractions, Russian expatriate comic Yakov Smirnov explained that the difference between Soviet and American police officers could be summarized in two words: ‘Warning shots.’  ‘I like how American police fire warning shots to stop a fugitive,’ Smirnov said in a standup routine circa 1984. ‘In Russia, the police simply shoot the guy, and say that’s a warning to everybody else.’  Thirty years later, Smirnov’s gibe is obsolete — not merely because the Soviet Union is long dead, but also because America’s ‘local’ police have become thoroughly Sovietized.”

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