From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 14:43:03 MDT
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> From: Michael S. Lorrey <mike@lorrey.com>
> If you exclude crimes which are lesser or are not offenses in other countries we'd
have a far more comparative level of imprisonment. Additionally China has a higher
fraction in prison, if you include 're-education camps' as prisons. I find it
interesting that the three most powerful nations have the highest prison
populations....
>
> On the other hand, since most crime here is commited by criminals on other
criminals, I can't say that you could call all of our prisoners 'oppressed'.
And what about the war on drugs, which in a rational world would
duly be classified as a crime against humanity? Apart from that, your
prison system (and in fact just about all the prison systems of the
so-called "civilized" nations) are simply barbaric. Little better than
concentration camps, really.
>>As far as I know the only throught crimes here in the US are pornographic
pedophilia, telling the President what you really think of him, looking at female
co-workers the wrong way, and disliking the publicly protected ethnic groups.<<
And that's another problem. But forget thought crimes, facing jail for
possession of some MJ is oppression enough, IMHO.
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