Prisons flourish where freedom reigns

[Judi Lynn]

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Sunday 9th April, 2006

Prisons flourish where freedom reigns

While the U.S. is striving to make the
free, it is locking up more people than ever
before. In 1972, there were 300,000
inmates in America. By the year 2000, the
number had risen to two million. Today,
America has half a million more people
locked up than China

Renato Redentor Constantino Saturday 8th April, 2006

Have you asked yourself lately, for whom the bells toll? The prism of prison has more than four walls.

"No nation is exempt from the demands of human dignity," said US president George W. Bush. "Everybody desires to be free; embedded in the soul of each man and woman on the face of the Earth is this deep desire to live in liberty."

Three decades from now, said the head of the star-spangled country, "people are going to look back at this moment and say, thank goodness a generation of Americans stood up and said, we have faith in democracy."

Easy to stand up; a little harder to be free.

Today, America has more people locked up compared to any other country in the world, half a million more than China, in fact, which has a population five times greater than the US. "No other society in human history," said the American organization California Prison Focus, "has imprisoned so many of its own citizens." Studies "reveal that the United States holds 25 percent of the world's prison population but only five percent of the world's people." (snip/...)

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[Trillo]

1. I've often wondered if a future civilization,

digging in the earth in the attempt to understand their own past, would only find prisons and not much else. What would those future beings conjecture with regards to our current society, from their viewpoit far in the future?

What other buildings would survive the ravages of time as well as our highest security prisons and deepest military bunkers?

[SofaKingLiberal]

2. our nuclear silos

[RC]

3. What a legacy, huh?

One can only Imagen what religion future archaeologists would think we practiced with all those impregnable religious shrines, both above and below ground. You know something like the Egyptian pyramids?:sarcasm: