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bonniebgood

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6. Has Anyone connected the dots yet?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 09:03 AM

May 2012

Private Prisons, for profit prisons, (where your elected representatives sits on the board R's and D's) give kickbacks to local police to arrest people of color (ie slave labor) to keep the prisons full. This is precisely the reason why police, no matter how egregious the offense, are ALWAYS found to "JUSTIFIED". Just research that i did 10 years ago. The heads of these private prisons enjoys the income of bankers.

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5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marijuana Illegal [View all] xchrom May 2012 OP

None of this would have any influence... randome May 2012 #1

Not just that... JackInGreen May 2012 #2

The FDA advisory board voted earlier this year to eliminate Vicodin and Percocet.. Fumesucker May 2012 #3

Prescription drugs have become the new face of illicit drug use AlbertCat May 2012 #7

Bingo! This issue, as with all others, is a numbers game MrScorpio May 2012 #10

vaporizers don't put smoke in your lungs. Tunkamerica May 2012 #15

Pure evil! SammyWinstonJack May 2012 #4

And don't forget the CIA, Black Ops, Special Forces.. ananda May 2012 #5

Has Anyone connected the dots yet? bonniebgood May 2012 #6

K & R and just want to say Tsiyu May 2012 #8

TEE-HEE! xchrom May 2012 #9

Two more, energy and agra. Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #11

This is where there is cognitive dissonance felix_numinous May 2012 #12

exactly -- and it's our responsibility to seek change in policy that we don't agree with nashville_brook May 2012 #13

why would tobacco companies be against it? provis99 May 2012 #14

did you read the post? Tunkamerica May 2012 #16

obviously you did.` provis99 May 2012 #17

you're right. i did miss it. Tunkamerica May 2012 #20

I don't smoke, but this has infuriated me. Jamaal510 May 2012 #18

Also the cotton industry. Horse with no Name May 2012 #19