The Prison Industrial Complex

[Caduceus Mercurius]

War on Drugs (The Prison Industrial Complex) [VPRO, 1999 - 92 min]

 

[FluidDruid]

Why We Fight (the US that is) The Military Industrial Complex.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=w ... ght&emb=0#

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

I came across that video I posted yesterday, and Mara and I watched it in the evening. It was shocking to see the amount of misery and duplicity the drug laws are creating in the USA. It's sickening to see the way police are exploiting the situation, confiscating money and property but not doing anything about the poverty causing these people to sell those drugs. It was also shocking to learn how some of those mandatory drug sentences (10 years, 20 years) were conjured up out of thin air by a group of people who had no knowledge and no advisors whatsoever.

 

[spice]

The state that I live in has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the United States of America.....and the United States of America has the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the world......(Google it)

So, I live in the most repressed part of the WORLD.


Got to get out....and planning to, just biding my time.


The reality is that the people who make the drug laws do it with the consent of the governed.

Whether this consent is explicit or not is really a moot point. Everyone who sits on their ass in this country, bemoaning the unfairness of it all, shares the blame.

I understand that these bastards cannot be fought directly, that's called 'terrorism', but everyone, I MEAN EVERYONE, can play a part, if they were to choose to do so......there are many ways to do these things.

I think that, here in the deep south, there ought to be a medical marijuana initiative, the same way that it has been done in other states, by forcing a referendum on the ballot by the force of signatures.

But as long as you have these damn evangelicals, be they Catholics, Baptists, or Pentacostals (all prevalent in my area, btw) you'll have repression.

I'd like to see evangelical religious practices outlawed.

 

[druglessdouglas]

spice i have a spare room for you. bring your glassware

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Why We Fight (the US that is) The Military Industrial Complex.

I watched it two days ago. Thanks for posting.

 

[FluidDruid]

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I think that, here in the deep south, there ought to be a medical marijuana initiative, the same way that it has been done in other states, by forcing a referendum on the ballot by the force of signatures.

Us Yankees just got it passed in Michigan, Hoooooooooooooray!!

 

[spice]

Congratulations on that.

Down here, all this religion in the air tends to make the people REPRESSED and they always feel guilty about doing anything that feels good.

Everyone does drugs, and they're all too busy hiding it from each other to get their shit together like the people up there and out West....

...add ignorance into the mix, and you have.... where I live...

People here don't even know that they can refuse the request of some traffic cop to search their vehicle....and that he can't just search it 'because he wants to'....or 'has a gut feeling'.....

They also don't understand that esoteric concept of the 4th amendment right to privacy....people have to have at least a minimum of awareness and education (by SCHOOLS, not churches) to comprehend exactly WHAT the constitution even IS....


Awash in a sea of ignorance.....a perfect storm of it...

 

[magickmumu]

This is crazy fascism in action

Arresting people for buying fake drugs. How can they do that?

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Arresting people for buying fake drugs. How can they do that?

I'm sure that cop was lying there. He said they used oregano as fake marijuana. That sounds highly improbable to me. Why not use real drugs as bait? They've confiscated plenty.

 

[spice]

Because they're too busy using and selling all the real drugs.

I'm serious. In this area it is a known fact that a lot of the dope comes in through the cops.

There are many reports of them stealing evidence here, and reselling it or using it.....

....and they won't go into the rough side of town and chase the real hard criminals, who are out raping and carjacking and committing armed robberies, but 5 cars of them will gang up on some poor guy with a sack of weed.

Real heroes.

 

[Twilight]

Although I knew about the DEA and that the drug policy in the US was bad, I wasn't expecting it to be THAT bad.

It's sad, very sad.