Glenn Greenwald’s Mitt Romney Surrogacy

[TiberiusB]

150. That's a lot of bold assertion...any chance you can back it up?

It is possible to argue for a better funded prison system, against prison privatization, against building massive foreign prison complexes, for a smaller prison population, and for the decriminalization of pot, all without being a contradictory hypocrite.

Maintaining our prisons is a domestic service, just like fire and police protection. It's an area rife with political abuse, particularly now with the ongoing push to privatize the whole system, but it is still a recipient of tax dollars and a part of the domestic budget at both the state and federal level.

Whatever your opinion on Greenwald's stance on "potheads", can you debate the argument that the "war on drugs" is wasting billions and putting thousands of Americans behind bars for trivial offenses? Approximately half of the current prison population is in jail on some sort of drug charge. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2109777,00.html

Who said anything about using any saved money from needless drug prosecution and incarceration for prison funding? Actually, that would be you. Can you prove that Glenn Greenwald holds that position?

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/15/debating_bushs_drug_czar_on_legalization/singleton/

To be clear, I am not arguing over whether Glenn Greenwald is a Libertarian or Progressive. I'm arguing that simply exclaiming that he is one and not the other (the core, it seems, of these "Greenwald suxors" threads) is not in and of itself proof that any of his arguments are wrong.