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Showing Original Post only (View all)If the First Paragraph of This Alone Doesn't Give You Chills..It's Like a Horror Film [View all]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-01/buying-prisons-require-high-occupancy/53402894/1?AID=4992781&PID=4003003&SID=3avsj698wk49#.UDZ1EC-fLQQ.mailtoThis is fascism folks. Not even hidden anymore. Truly disgusting and terrifying. If it isn't the government choking more money out of people by fees and increasing ticketing, it's private industry literally enslaving people. We aren't in Kansas anymore..
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If the First Paragraph of This Alone Doesn't Give You Chills..It's Like a Horror Film [View all]
jpbollma
Sep 2012
OP
That is Draconian. They are literally buying people, enslaving them. They are also
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#19
"If you read about this happening in some other country, you would be horrified."
gateley
Sep 2012
#31
Excellent post, I agree with every word. There simply are no adequate words to describe
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#55
Americans are truly fucked if this continues. Damn, I wish Americans would get their heads
RKP5637
Sep 2012
#4
We live in a police state. It is tightening it's tentacles around us everyday.
Lint Head
Sep 2012
#10
Easy. Crack down on medical cannabis. Those folks won't even be able to fight back.
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#16
You take your billions in profit & lobby Congress for laws to lock up Citizens.
CrispyQ
Sep 2012
#68
kr. and with the growth in for-profit prison industries (not just making things for the government
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#12
They are going to be putting people in jail for not paying their debts
riverbendviewgal
Sep 2012
#23
Oh, c'mon. The profit motive never, ever leads to evil. What could possibly go wrong?
tclambert
Sep 2012
#37
sorry for spelling errors above was trying swipe and wanted NOT to lose post for.4th time
Astazia
Sep 2012
#50
I have not read anything about Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrt to the private prison industry.
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#57