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   jrmerm said, 5 months ago

   We have some openings for armed killer drone operators. It’s a growth industry.
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   If some of the more obviously criminal bankers and corrupt money managers WOULD end up in the slammer, I’d be all for building more prisons!
   Sadly, there are too many NIMBYs out there to get enough new prisons built. Although, we COULD commute the ridiculous jail sentences of people sent to prison for 10 years for having a bag of pot, and open up some bed space for the people who really need to be in there!
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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   Too bad anyone who wants the government to steal from the rich can’t be prosecuted for being an accomplice.
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   Michael wme said, 5 months ago

   P. G. Wodehouse wrote a story about two ‘20s millionaires who were very competitive. Both started their six-month gaol terms on the same day, then after paying their debt to society, they both returned to their mansions.

   
   The universal perception of the ’20s was of a corrupt time when millionaires got their millions by illegal practices, for which most were eventually caught and sentenced to very short prison terms and minuscule fines, so after serving their sentences, they returned to almost all of their pre-conviction riches (and to the same practices that had made them rich).

   
   Today, the US has almost completely cleaned up its act (Madoff is the exception that proves the rule).

   
   Now, everything the bankers did was perfectly legal, thanks to the laws Clinton signed and Bush, Jr and Obama did not repeal, since those laws have full, universal, bipartisan support.

   
   Also, giving money directly to your congresspersons or to the White House is no longer bribery or corruption, that too is perfectly legal, so we no longer have any corruption at all in the US government, because everything congresscritters and the president do is now legal and honest under US law. ’The labourer is worthy of his hire,’ and delivering laws that help contributors is hard work for those congresscritters and the president.

   
   The president even has the legal right to murder any American citizen he chooses, and, by being killed, that citizen becomes a criminal terrorist whose murder was an absolute necessity.

   
   And every normal American fully supports the fact that the President is an absolute sovereign for four or eight year, that he IS the law, so he cannot violate the law.

   
   Only a few rabid left wingers like Mr Rall disagree with that reasonable and almost universally accepted position.
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   Chillbilly said, 5 months ago

   In America …
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   You can walk into an HSBC branch and spraypaint the truth that “THIS BANK AIDS AND ABETS OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES” on the wall.
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   YOU will go to jail. The people who aided and abetted our terrorist enemies WON’T.
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   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/opinion/hsbc-too-big-to-indict.html?hp
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 5 months ago

   The punishment cult LOVES building prisons! More cages to keep all those undesirables in- you know, those “people” who have the nerve to not be just like them. More profit for every warm body they throw in. Plus they make dirt-cheap laborers!
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   denis1112 said, 5 months ago

   @The Wolf In Your Midst

   Yea people who aren’t just like them.Burglars,car thieves,armed robbers,shop lifters,bad check writers,Scamers,internet and otherwise,rapist’s,drug dealers,murder’s,pimps,
   sex slavers,kidnapers,people that don’t pay their taxes,rioters,violent union thugs,smugglers,crooked politicians and public employees.drunk drivers involved in car wrecks that kill or hurt someone else,people that engage in fraud and most other morons that do illegal crap.
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago

   Here; Jails for sale in NYS there are several facilities that are currently available for purchase.
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   Prisoning seems to be on the downswing…
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   Here: is an article from today’s NYT about the idea of not prisoning people for the lesser offences.
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   Sorry, Ted, reality seems to be to the left of you on this one.
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   I Play One On TV said, 5 months ago

   We have plenty of prisons in Virginia, thanks to ex-Governor and ex-Senator George Allen. He built so many that we have to rent rooms to other states to house their overflow. He also appointed a person to head the prison system who is so aggressive with his desire to punish at every turn that other states are suing Virginia because of our cruelty and inattentiveness to safety. We almost put him back into the Senate, but the country lucked out last month….
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    Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, 5 months ago

    The State of Illinois is closing four of them. I bet they’d lease them out fairly cheap.
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    indieme said, 5 months ago

    Give me Weedom or give me death!
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    Lavocat said, 5 months ago

    Too big to arrest.
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    Rottiluv said, 5 months ago

    Prisons, the plantations of the 20th century.
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    Jeddidyah said, 5 months ago

    @Michael wme

    Like HSBC ?
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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    @denis1112

    denis, why does America have so many more evil-doers than any other country such that it must lock up a greater percentage of its population than anyone else?
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