DdC

The US Gulag Prison System by Stephen Lendman
Global Research Feature Article March 16, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca
CanCul-MSE Mar 19 2006 comments

No, not the one you think, outrageous as it is. I'm referring to the US prison system that's with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June, 2004 and growing larger by about 900 new inmates every week. Blacks (mostly poor and disadvantaged) especially are affected. While they make up just 12.3% of the population, they account for half the prison population, and their numbers there have grown fivefold in the last 25 years. Hispanics (also poor) account for another 15%.

About half of those incarcerated are there for non-violent offenses, and half of those (500,000) are drug related. But while blacks make up 15% of ilicit drug users, they account for 37% of drug arrests, 42% of drug offenders in federal prison and 62% in state prisons. And Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that in one third of the states 75% of all prisoners for drug-related offenses are black. In my home state of Illinois they reported the number to be an astonishing 89%, a total exceed by only one other state. Further, in a so-called free society, below the radar are hundreds of political prisoners, mostly people of color, there only because they represent a threat to the state from their pursuit of justice for their people if they were free. continued... www.globalresearch.c a

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
Thomas Jefferson

The Moral Majority Deterrents to Toking ... Rape!

Kids don't get off any easier in juvi prison. 95% of those arrests for possession were plea bargained away from a jury trial and possible release. The risk is too great. Fines, Probation and Forced "treatment" rising statistics that anti's use to create fear of rising use and worse dangers. No one went to treatment with your fathers pot they say. Bassackwards logic and media profits.

Profits on pisstasting, D.E.A.th budgets, Cop appropriations. Corporate interest fighting the war. KaKaKa Christian Coalition has hundreds of media outlets, papers, tv and radio stations, two networks. Pushing their agenda at a profit. Wally and the Whitehouse selling this Ganjawar for their own profits. Ends justifying means, again.



Profits from the Petrol - Pharmaceuticals and Booze keeping cannabis competition off the market by prohibition. Reports on positive affects of cannabis, buried. Lies, mistruths, lots of omissions and poppycock repeated as fact. To perpetuate a war that only profits if it continues. Monsanto can't make billions spreading poison if wild hemp is left for pheasant habitat.

If farmers used hemp to replace the chemical cotton and petrochemical bug and weed poisons. Then the Klintoon 90's brought out the nutritional value of the seed and hundreds of meat and grain lobbyist joined in to outlaw it. Next comes 17 truckloads of bird seed confiscated as "marijuana". 60 years of delivering bird seed using cannabis and not a word. Cannabis food enterprises were run out of business from the fear spreading D.E.A.th threats.

Where are the tree huggers all of these years, passing plastic coated dead tree fliers shunning cannabis? All the proud anti war protesters telling anti-war stories about stopping injustice... at the DARE meetings? Sending their environmentally safe tax shelter checks to P.D.F.A to produce more of the "Your brain is a smashed egg" commercials.



I'd say they were hypocrites but Ignorance leaves that out. Gullible, unquestioning, believers for the most part. Naive of their own usage experience ain't easy to pull off with a straight face. Their kids don't buy it either. They've already tried it and now you sound like your parents did telling you how bad it is. The higher the education, the more to lose. What isn't taught leaves the same ignorance. Now laymen with cannabis knowledge laugh at the Reefer Madness of the so called Professionals protecting vested ignorance. And protecting vested interest in the ignorance.



12 pounds of chemically treated grain for each pound of meat. Now more and more exported to non grazing countries. Profits for Internationalists at the expense of North America's health. Cows used to feed on hemp seed. Too many profits to ignore. But then that's why they call it ignorant. Cannabis Separatists, anti-Fascist, Farm Labor, Environmentalist and anti-War advocates ignoring the staple cannabis and its reason for prohibition are feeding Fascism at the expense of their own kids health.



As those waving Iraqi Crude Oil Plastic Flags made in China. A joke on themselves. Tossing money at the enemy ain't the best way to win wars. But then again, now that Missions Accomplished, no bid contracts can take that $300 billion tax payer dollars. The money's always in maintaining.

Aiding D.E.A.th in childish wishful thinking. Separatists claiming their part of the plant is ok, just not the other parts. That we should use it for patients but sodomize the healthy users as deterrents. That we should eat it for health, but be fined or caged for smoking it. But getting it to someone is trafficking, making it mandatory sentencing. 3 strikes and life long profits for the prison industry. It ain't the dangers of pot, its never been the dangers of pot. All of the negative aspects of prohibition are red herrings to not deal with the for profit product sold as the war on Ganja.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Gullible D.E.A.th herds...
DdC

Ganjawar: Prison Slave Labor, Rape & Pillage Deterrent



Profiting from Poverty
The U.S. Prison-Industrial Complex

Slave labor means big bucks for U.S. corporations
At the same time, the United States blasts China for the the use of prison slave labor, engaging in the same practice itself. Prison labor is a pot of gold. No strikes, union organizing, health benefits, unemployment insurance or workers' compensation to pay.

As if exploiting the labor of prison inmates was not bad enough, it is legal in the United States to use slave labor. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States."

Prison Factories: Slave Labor



"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan

STOP PRISON RAPE!

An American Gulag in The Making

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I wish my god damn country would stop being racist so it would seem more wrong when I was racist.


I wonder what it's like to live in a truly multi-cultural society. I wonder what their prison population statistics look like.

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I don't think we are truly multi-cultural. Unless I'm talking about something else.

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that society has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
-Richard Dawkins