Comments on: Abolition key to new justice system

By: O. B. Server

O. B. Server — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:58:00 +0000

Curious … on android, and chrome browsers, only Mulligan’s comment appears … under “Comment (1)” (the wording on those browsers).

However, on some Mozilla browsers, “2 Responses to ‘Abolition key to new justice system’” appears in place of “Comment (1)” (which appear on chrome and android). And both comments appear.

Moreover, the posted date on Mulligan’s comment appears in two different formats.

Why should my comment disappear for google chrome and google android? And disappear in such a peculiar manner! Weird!

By: O. B. Server

O. B. Server — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:45:32 +0000

Kiilu Nyasha’s article here is right on target, and I and many others deeply appreciate it. Real crime with real victims is down, yet America seems hell-bent on imprisonment and punishment. Sure, its profitable for CCA and other for-profit prisons to railroad potheads and others involved with “drugs”

And don’t forget the generous overtime and fat salaries police make also, out of the newly-discovered “sin” of pot smoking, and newly minted marijuana “crimes”.

Yes, Kiilu Nyasha is completely correct when calling for abolition because the Bill of Rights loophole that allows slavery (yes, slavery!) for those “felons” duly “convicted” of “crimes” is one of the main driving forces behind this for-profit monstrously. Granted: the police state and camp followers like the yellow press want to retain their powers and money, so yes, trying to get people to look away from the torture and slavery, and instead focus on cherry-picked, police-approved “victims” which serve to justify police, is a great strategy. Transparent, but what else can police state apologists say? They have to say something.

Here’s what the police-state and drug war camp-followers fear most:

“[C]hanges with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.” (Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Annual Report to the SEC, 2010)

By: John Mulligan

John Mulligan — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:48:46 +0000

There were 14,748 murders in the United States in 2010 and 666,160 murders from 1960 to 1996. I don't even know how many child molest cases, armed robbery, residential burglary violent assualt with injury, domestic violence and rape. What exactly do you propose we do with these people? There are almost daily murders in Oakland and Bayview. These areas are crawling with gang members. Asians in particular have been targeted recently, an old man in his 70s was kicked to death, a woman in her 50s was thrown in front of a bus by some black teenagers for fun. It's on video. Society doesn't want to "cure" these people, society wants them gone.

This newspaper devotes far too much time to prisoners. I have yet to see an article discussing how parents of a community have banded together to work with local teachers to improve a school. I have never seen an article discussing how a community will work together to reduce violence. There has never been an article about how the people of Bayview or Oakland will get together to reduce garbage or graffiti. Want to reduce the prison population? Do that.

Do you know why China has a relatively low prison population? They execute.