Great article.  Gee, why is this not be covered by our corporate MSM.  I’ve heard more about the outrage of the Chinese using forced labor out of American journalism.  I guess its OK when it is a private corporation paying a salary of $5 per day.  Got to love this country!

It’s laughably (were it not so tragic anyway) claimed that justice is blind. That’s
just more hooey papering over actuality. So much ideological clap-trap.

I have for some time believed that the principle motivation behind so-called
“criminal justice,” particularly surrounding use of illegal drugs, has been to
increase prison populations precisely so as to provide really cut-rate-slave
labor to business.

(Stats that can be read here for the U.S. are an obvious disgrace, stain on the
nation, call it what you will.)

I wasn’t up on exactly how it all worked until now. I wondered of conspiracy,
how that might work. Lawyers colluding with judges and police and all of them
with chiefs of businesses? Doubtful. Here it is in this article, and I had no idea
of the depth of the conspiracy, though have long known of Sheriff kick-ass
over in Maricopa. (He’s the upshot of electing a sadistic coward to office. And
he’s hardly the only one—local, state or federal. He does, however, appear to
be the one most proud of his sadistic cowardice.)

I suspected too that the defense industry was probably the principle “employer”
of the new (or not so new, apparently) slave labor. There have been reports of
prisoners being forced to make body armor, which fact is just slightly ironic, all
the more so when I just learned that female prisoners are being forced to sew
bras for Victoria’s (no longer) Secret. One really couldn’t make this stuff up.

America’s justice system is thoroughly corrupt and so no different than every
other institution in the glorious capitalist non-democracy, where you can say
just about whatever you like so long as you don’t do nothin.’ Punishment has
always been the most visible intent, and now a renewal of debtors prisons. I
wondered—mostly facetiously—when that was going to happen and now I’m
learning that it already has.

If it hadn’t already, the profit motive has overtaken punitive intent, though the
two cozily co-exist, no contradiction, and all thanks to legislatures evidently
steeped in the traditions of the Confederacy.

I find what is reported here to be particularly detestable: At the very least, any
company that abuses (not “employs”) forced labor ought at least be boycotted
whenever possible, exactly as when any abuses sweatshop labor.

And then, obviously though not about to happen, the real scum of the earth—
corporate and political bosses—ought be charged with crimes a tad more
serious than use of legal or illegal drugs or petty theft and so on insofar as very
often murderous violations of human rights, and upon any conviction
themselves sent to prisons where they might hope the rest of us would not be
so loathsome as to force them to perform labor for our profit. Not to be a
goddamn saint about it!

Just another milestone on the road to totalitarian fascism! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!