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If Americans find out about government law enforcement policy primarily via media as Elias contents, it is axiomatic that we find out about international crime via media. If we cannot be bothered to read for ourselves the bills introduced to Congress that result in laws to find out what those laws really mean, we certainly cannot be bothered to read and interpret the Koran to see where the truth lies in that document.

Elias offers an insight that works equally well for the failure of America's increasingly tough stands on crime and our acceptance of Islamic murderers as martyrs, and it is this:

With few exceptions, the media have uncritically reproduced official, conservative, 'law-and-order' perspectives with little fundamental analysis of their success or failure. They have also repeatedly covered and promoted 'crime wars' and 'drug wars' which inevitably fail but which are periodically resuscitated (with the media's help) as if these wars had never been fought -- and lost -- before. The media fail to hold policymakers responsible for strategies that predictably don't work. Indeed, they help make the problem worse; the media's amnesia, unwitting or not, encourages people to support policies which actually promote the growth of crime (1994, p. 3+).

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It doesn't matter whether one is substituting a gentle word (martyr) for a tough one (murderer), or substituting a tough one (law and order, drug 'war') for a more compassionate one (remediation, understanding, restraint without violence), the effect is the same. The brain is at least partly fooled into accepting the erroneous terminology. However, just as one cannot make black into white by calling it by the opposite term, one cannot make murder into martyrdom, nor jack-boot tactics into justice. Law enforcement is done a disservice in both cases with the result that murderers are cut at east some psychological slack, and overzealous legislators and law enforcement officials are permitted to exercise undue force against the citizenry. It is a matter of justice being linguistically turned upside down......

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