Thread: PUB DISCUSSION It is all going to pot...
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Old 03-31-2009, 09:10 AM   #131 (permalink)
dksuddeth
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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
i know the convention of a pub discussion militates against information being introduced...but this seems a good moment to break that rule.

there is a ton of money being made as a function of these draconian laws, including the absurd marijuana laws--but i don't believe that folk are looking in the right place to see where it's happening, who benefits from it. money is not made so much from the prohibitions--that is from what is prohibited---money, and a shitload of it, is made from the *fact* of prohibitions. it's made by those lovely people in what we call the prison-industrial complex, in political shorthand.

this gives a nice compact overview, tho it is 4 pages long:

The Phoenix > News Features > Freedom watch: Jailhouse bloc

the debate's been barking up the wrong tree.
this is part of our problem also. When the government can make money on making criminals out of it's citizens (with little or no resistance) why should they stop?
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