24-01-2011, 12:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-01-2011, 01:07 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:Just for fun, let's compare the Netherlands to California. With a population of 16.6 million, the Dutch prison population is about 12,000. With its population of 36.7 million, California should have a bit more than double the Dutch prison population. California's actual prison population is 171,000.
This speaks for itself doesn't it.
Prisons are big business - ergo crime has to climb to ensure that balance sheets continue to grow to draw investors in.
It's al a very sick joke.
Sick, but true: the towns with the prisons; the Prison Guard Association and the industry [really one] that supplies the prisons with consumables; the companies that build the prisons - all have a lobby with lots of money to buy legislators to pass new laws to get new crimes and to make old crimes have longer sentences. You can buy shares on the stock market in prisons....:what: our big 'growth industry' Sick nation. Prisons and Police; Wars and soldiers and private soldiers. Spies and spying. Nothing for improving life, health, welfare, care, peace, education, environment, public health, etc.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass