From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Fri Jul 03 1998 - 08:40:29 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 07:42 PM 7/2/98 -0400, Michael wrote in an aria of patriotic fervor:
>
> >should look at the US as being closer to the goal of Unlimited Individual
> Freedom
>
> >extropians living in other countries must temper their beleifs for fear of
> >conflicting with their local cultural/societal/governmental mores, or
> being found
> >to be in need of 'reeducation' and 'socialization' in their countries penal
> >systems....
>
> What proportion of US citizens is in jail this year? For what conflicts
> with which mores? How does this compare with, say, Holland, Sweden,
> Australia, NZ?
Quite. Most US citizens in jail are prisoners of the the Drug War. If you
discount those, our non-drug prison population is in line with other
industrialized countries. We all have our own areas of national insanity. Ours
is a phobia of allowing people to put things in their bodies. Everyone else's
seems to be a phobia of allowing people to defend themselves against criminals
and oppressive governments (they are the same thing, its just a matter of
scale)..
>
>
> Damien Broderick
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