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Uncle Joe

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17. You make a good point and I'm wondering if it isn't part of the
Sun Sep 22, 2013, 02:20 PM
Sep 2013

corporate media's mass, psychological, criminalization process of the American Peoples' mentality.

"We're guilty until proven innocent," just a leg of the ongoing national surveillance state being created among other intrusive, authoritarian style policies being promoted or enacted.

The U.S. prison population is over two million and if you count their affected families that might kick it up to six million, a little more or a little less. Six million is only 2% of the the American Population at three hundred million even (and I'm sure we're over that number) so MSNBC dedicates over 28% of their weekly programming to prisons.

The numbers seem out of whack to me for any responsible news network especially when one takes in to account Cleita's point of so many other unmet or underserved societal needs to report on.

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