Back in the Bush years we learned of dozens of empty new prisons that had been built and were sitting Idle. Many of us wondered about them and many scoffed and said just another Conspiracy Theory.
Or its the GOP Fast-track to job creations- jobs, jobs, jobs- where are the jobs??
NOT a Conspiracy Theory! It's a genuine Corporate Business Plan for Cheap Labor, Easy Money and High Profits.
Occupy The Dream: The Mathematics of Racism
if the war on drugs was ever won, it would be a financial disaster for law enforcement. There’s so much dirty money funding law enforcement agencies that now, according to NPR, some police departments have become “addicted to drug money“.
More Prison Slaves are actually being LOBBIED FOR!
Putting people in jail and keeping them there is good for business. So that’s what these companies lobby for. According to the Justice Policy Institute, these companies “have contributed $835,514 to federal candidates and over $6 million to state politicians. They have also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on direct lobbying efforts.” They are large donors to state-based think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), who market harsh immigration, drug laws, and prison privatization laws to state level politicians around the country. While the rationale is no longer outright bigotry, the net effect, in terms of stripping millions of blacks of political and economic rights, is the same.
GOP hate our POTUS because he is BLACK! It is, unfortunately, as simple as that. I didn't believe that racism was still this rampant until I heard this said on the Dylan Ratigan show yesterday.
Dylan Ratigan: Racism was rebranded ‘the war on drugs’
More from article:
This is the face of racism today.
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There are more blacks under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.”
Slavery Is Worse now than ever before in the fucking United States of America!!
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“As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.”
· In 2005, 4 out of 5 drug arrests were for possession not trafficking, and 80% of the increase in drug arrests in the 1990s was for marijuana.
· There are 50,000 arrests for low-level pot possession a year in New York City, representing one out of every seven cases that turn up in criminal courts. Most of these arrested are black and hispanic men.
I had never heard of this law:
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A Federal law passed in 1986 allowed law enforcement agencies to seize drug money, and use it to supplement their budgets. Grabbing cash connected to drugs meant that police departments could buy more tools and training. Like the fee-for-service model in medicine, that pays doctors for performing procedures, not for making people healthier, the “forfeiture laws” effectively pay the police departments for making busts – not for reducing the drug trade.
I suggest boycotting Corporations exploiting slave labor!
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Prisoners now manufacture and assemble products for Microsoft, Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret, Boeing, as well as body armor for soldiers and handcuff cases for law enforcement officers.
· In 2007, taxpayers spent $74 billion on prisons, with the largest percentage increase of prisoners going to for-profit prison companies.
I'm still stunned by this. I have read bits and pieces and have been outraged by some weird doings of Homeland Security and other BUSH CREATED Institutions that are still part of the Corporate government today.
The dots are still being connected.
I see a new civil war necessity. OWS is just the beginning.
I don't know how we stop the biggest user of slave labor Manufacturing Company in the USA- The SICK USA!
Maybe this is also why more kids are being sent to prison now more than ever before...just saying or maybe that is just another Conspiracy Theory too.
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