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CrispyQ

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Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 05:24 PM

Feb 2013

In my film, David Simon calls them "the extra Americans" – those we don't need any more because our factories are closed and we've shipped so many jobs overseas that these people have no function. So what do we do with them? Lock them up. And while locking them up, why not make a profit out of it?

What a sad, sad state our country is in.

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The War On Drugs Has Screwed Black People and Now It's Coming for White People [View all] Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 OP

K/R (nt) NYC_SKP Feb 2013 #1

repubs + dems + president = ever more restrictive police state. thanks a lot nt msongs Feb 2013 #2

We need more exposés of this shit, Joe Shlabotnik Feb 2013 #3

This nebenaube Feb 2013 #4

+1 nt Live and Learn Feb 2013 #7

+1 nt Live and Learn Feb 2013 #6

Even as a non-drug user and a non-smoker, Jamaal510 Feb 2013 #5

The war on drugs has been a tremendous success for the rich Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 #8

This: CrispyQ Feb 2013 #9