Ted Rall for December 12, 2012
December 10, 2012
December 14, 2012
Transcript:
An expensive luxury in a recession, states scaled back the war on drugs. Now that recovery has begun, look for more new prisons and longer sentences to fill them. Man: Dow's ticking up. Better diversify your criminality. No more drugs... how about banking?
Chillbilly over 11 years ago
In America ….You can walk into an HSBC branch and spraypaint the truth that “THIS BANK AIDS AND ABETS OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES” on the wall..YOU will go to jail. The people who aided and abetted our terrorist enemies WON’T..http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/opinion/hsbc-too-big-to-indict.html?hp
I Play One On TV over 11 years ago
We have plenty of prisons in Virginia, thanks to ex-Governor and ex-Senator George Allen. He built so many that we have to rent rooms to other states to house their overflow. He also appointed a person to head the prison system who is so aggressive with his desire to punish at every turn that other states are suing Virginia because of our cruelty and inattentiveness to safety. We almost put him back into the Senate, but the country lucked out last month….
Plods with ...™ over 11 years ago
The State of Illinois is closing four of them. I bet they’d lease them out fairly cheap.
joe vignone over 11 years ago
Give me Weedom or give me death!
Lavocat over 11 years ago
Too big to arrest.
Rottiluv over 11 years ago
Prisons, the plantations of the 20th century.
edward thomas Premium Member over 11 years ago
Too bad we can’t put the rich who want to steal from the rest of us in prison. They steal our pensions and get bonuses, they steal our houses and get transferred to another subsidiary, they ruin the company and blame the union, then take their GD golden parachute someplace else. Class warfare is alive and well in the halls of corporate power!