From watching the little town of Thompson Illinois it is easy to see how Hitler
created the nazi nightmare. When the small town of Thompson Illinois built a
prison the people all of a sudden became extreme law and order supporters.
One woman that owned a restaurant even suggested that we needed more
laws so we could fill the prison to keep her in business. America is creating a
violent society that not only hates the government but the taxpayers as well.
Keep locking up innocent people and one day they will destroy you.

If it is your goal to attack other nations then you are correct. Afghanistan has
never had a standing army yet has defeated every major army on earth since
Alexander the great.

By RAE, October 14 at 4:11 pm #

stc… re the army…

I think the US does need a professional standing army and the reason is that
several other VERY LARGE nations have them. There’s no way the USA could
deal with aggression from any one of them using only call up volunteers when
required.

stc… re the army…

I think the US does need a professional standing army and the reason is that several other VERY LARGE nations have them. There’s no way the USA could deal with aggression from any one of them using only call up volunteers when required.

I do agree that perhaps another form of government might be something to look into. Perhaps an amalgam taking the best of several different kinds of government might be interesting. I know many Americans nearly go ballistic at the mere mention of socialism or communism but that’s mostly because they’ve been taught to have a knee-jerk reaction to the words. I doubt most Americans could even define or describe either of these systems very well.

I believe that unregulated capitalism is every bit as “bad” as pure socialism or communism. How about we take the best from all the systems and create something that benefits every citizen instead of just the “insider elites?” As my granny used to say… “everything in moderation.” Which means that too much of ANYTHING leads to trouble.

It is not written in stone that the new government has to be a federal republic,
democracy or any of the common forms of government. The Iroquois
confederacy was the model for the first government of the United States and
worked very well. A new government should clearly define the role of
government with severe penalties for officials that exceed their authority. A
new government should not be allowed to keep secrets of any kind. It is a
myth that secrets benefit the people, they only benefit criminals. We already
have a well regulated militia, the enlisted veterans (officers are part of the
‘ruling class’) that can be called up on short notice so we do not need a
standing army. A standing army just invites abuse by leaders that are greedy
or cannot mind their own business.

stcfarms wrote: ...“It (The Declaration of Independence) clearly states that if the government does not serve the needs of the people that they have the right to replace it.”

And we DO… but as soon as the new bunch arrives on the Hill, each party’s “goons” take them aside and “inform them” of how the game is to be played, or else! And the “or else” seems to be a really, really rough ride - assignment to committees that meet endlessly than no one pays any attention to - assignment to roles that have absolutely no power to influence anything - etc. In other words, the “new” government MUST act pretty much as the last one did.

So where is the Supreme Court? Why are those “honorable” people not coming down on legislation that clearly is in violation of the fundamental laws of the land?

Good question, assuming of course, that the Justices aren’t also being “educated” as to their role by someone’s “goons.”

Isn’t wonderful to be part of the human race. We are about as corrupt and corruptable an organism as has ever existed. I truly believe that ALL of us can be bought - we’re all prostitutes in one way or another. There’s only the PRICE to be haggled over.

By the year 2046 half of all Americans will be in prison, on parole or
probation. This is not from a science fiction novel, it is taken from the
department of justice figures. Our government has declared war on the
citizens of America. Where will we house all of the cell phone owners,
people that refuse to wear helmets, fat people? These are all groups coming
under pressure from the fed to change. The Declaration of Independence
gaurentees the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This
last right brings into question a number of laws already on the books, laws
against prostitution, gambling, drugs, public drinking, public nudity, not
wearing seat belts the list is endless. Congress has no right to ban
behavior because they find it offensive, they only have the right to ban
behavior that harms others. Fortunately for us congress has only chosen to
ignore one major right that is in the Declaration of Independence, the right
to fire their ciminal asses. It clearly states that if the government does
not serve the needs of the people that they have the right to replace it. I
think it is time to do that before we are all in prison.

Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMISTS bled the United States dry and the citizens of Hardin, Montana went along with what the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMISTS did in this respect from Goldwater through Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, and tried to benefit from a market based upon criminalizing and imprisoning their fellow citizens as a revenue source, reminiscent of Adolph Eichmann.

I had no sympathy for Adolph Eichmann, and I have no sympathy for “little tiny Eichmanns” trying to benefit at the expense of others as do the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMISTS and the citizens of Hardin, MT that were frustrated in their “Little Tiny Eichmann Scheme” to profit from the misfortune of prisoners.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB150/index.htm

All they have to do is wait a while until the Republicans get back in power and then they will fill it up with leftists, communists, homosexuals, and Micheal Moore wannabes.

Well, this story is nothing compared to what was going on in Pennsylvania’s juvenile court system. Read it and weep for our children:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29142654/

For a more detailed account listen to local NPR affiliate WHYY’s Marty Moss Coane’s hour long podcast:

We discuss corruption in Luzerne County’s judicial system where judges Mark Ciaverella and Michael Conahan have been charged by federal prosecutors with taking $2.6 million in kickbacks from youth detention centers. Our guests are MARSHA LEVICK, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel of the Juvenile Law Center and LAURENE TRANSUE, whose daughter was sent to a Wilderness camp in 2007 after appearing before Judge Ciavarella for mocking an assistant principal on a MySpace page.

http://www.whyy.org/podcast/040609_100630.mp3

Privatized prisons - JUST SAY NO!

Because of the current depression orchestrated by the

Fed, as the first “great depression” was towns across

the U.S. are desperate to meet their budgets. One big

difference this time is that the FED has milked the

system dry & a recovery is impossible. So many

municipalities are selling off public assets for

pennies on the dollar just to pay their bills & in

effect further enslaving their citizenry with

financial burdens. A typical disaster is when a

water supply is sold off & then water bills

skyrocket. Another is when highways are sold off &

made into toll roads. Across the U.S. there are

empty commercial buildings,like the prison scam,

where large chains get a “FREE LUNCH”, a builing &

property without cost & tax free, for the promise of

providing jobs for an ailing local economy. This

was nicely explained in a book by DAVID CAY

JOHNSTON:FREE LUNCH.

There something desperately wrong-headed about a society that boasts that it is the “Land of the Free” when the facts confirm otherwise. The USA locks up a greater percentage of its citizens than ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH - TWO MILLION behind bars and counting!

Read this fascinating review of America’s corrupt justice system by Len Sachs:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SAC20050830&articleId=885

The “justice” system in the USA is a HUGE business. Certainly there are some basic rules that citizens must obey in order to prevent chaos. No arguement. But in the USA, there are literally hundreds of thousands of LAWMAKERS, making BIG BUCKS, whose only job is to CREATE rules that are guaranteed to provide the JUSTICE SYSTEM with an endless - even ever increasing - supply of “clients” which, in turn, requires an ever-increasing amount of money to operate.

The amount of crime is REGULATED by those who profit the most from it. CRIME certainly DOES PAY and pays very well indeed - to those EMPLOYED in the justice system.

It wouldn’t be so bad if the BILLIONS spent “dealing with” criminals actually resulted in LESS CRIME. But it doesn’t. Now I ask, who in their right mind continues to pour money into a system that DOES NOT WORK? No one, of course, unless it profits them to do so.

I find it hard to be sorry for the City of Hardin, since Hardin’s managers were not at all concerned about the citizen’s of Hardin who are stricken with twice the poverty of most towns.  Greediness bought the lie of a monstrous prison saving their town, because they care nothing about their citizens, so it serves them right.  I expect the citizens of Hardin get bled dry on a regular basis.  Many cities are doing the exact same things to support their cities——taking advantage of as many of their citizens as they can to support their court houses and police departments, but manufacturing crime and taking advantage of citizens in order to prosper is not how any city should be run, but it seems to be the status quo of the new way of running cities——bad city management——private prisons is one of the worse ideas ever to come down the pike, in fact, anything private should be kept out of any public form of government.

More on the criminals running the prison scams: http://newmexicoindependent.com/39009/private-prison-developer-behind-montana-fiasco-involved-in-construction-of-nm-private-prisons

Apparently the town leaders never heard the expression, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t.”

This story is begging for the Coen brothers to make it into a movie.