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I believe it was the late American newspaper cartoonist Al "L'il Abner" Capp who suggested that a good way of curing school rowdyism and violence would be to turn school administration over to the Mafia for several months every year.
It was also Capp who opined that if gangs of protestors breaking up political gatherings and meetings (of any stripe) is merely "an exercise in free speech" (as some argued in the late 1960s), then bank robbery is merely "a financial transaction" and gang rape merely "a social intereaction between three or more people."
And there was the comedian Emo Philips, who proposed that "the best way to cure children of night terrors and fear of the dark is to fill their days with so much horror that they pray for the nights to come."
It was also Capp who opined that if gangs of protestors breaking up political gatherings and meetings (of any stripe) is merely "an exercise in free speech" (as some argued in the late 1960s), then bank robbery is merely "a financial transaction" and gang rape merely "a social intereaction between three or more people."
And there was the comedian Emo Philips, who proposed that "the best way to cure children of night terrors and fear of the dark is to fill their days with so much horror that they pray for the nights to come."