"The general mindset of the political left is similar from country to country and even from century to century," writes Thomas Sowell. "The softness toward dangerous criminals found in such 18th century writers as William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet has its echo today among those who hold protest vigils at the executions of murderers and complain we are not nice enough to the cutthroats imprisoned at Guantanamo."
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